We are excited to launch another year of the African Innovation Prize at the University of Sierra Leone – with participation from students from COMAHS, IPAM and Fourah Bay College.<\/p>\n
Students this year again have the opportunity to win funds, mentoring, training and support for their business ideas through entering the competition.<\/p>\n
At Phase I (1st March 2013 – 31st March 2013), the idea phase, 3 students can win 1.3 mill SLL for their best ideas under 250 words.<\/p>\n
At Phase II (1st May 2013 – 15th June 2013), the business planning phase, 1 student will win 13mill SLL for the business plan of under 1500 words.<\/p>\n
To give all students the best chance at obtaining these prizes we will be running support and training sessions throughout the year..<\/p>\n
The first of these is on Tuesday 29th January, 2pm-4pm at:<\/strong><\/p>\n Career Advisory and Placement Service 2nd Floor, University House, Fourah Bay College\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Full details of the event can be found at the EventBrite here:\u00a0http:\/\/aipuslwie.eventbrite.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n You can also register to attend the event there. \u00a0Alternatively, you can email us directly at the African Innovation Prize and we will keep a log of your attendance.<\/p>\n The event is being organised by the CAPS team in collaboration with the AIP leadership team from the UK:\u00a0if you have any queries on the day, please reach out to Lekan on\u00a0078754389.<\/p>\n With warm wishes to you all, and looking forward to another great year at University of Sierra Leone,<\/p>\n AFRICAN INNOVATION PRIZE\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\nInspiring and supporting student entrepreneurship in Africa<\/i><\/address>\nhttp:\/\/www.africaninnovationprize.org\/<\/i><\/a><\/address>\nRegistered in England and Wales #1146881<\/i><\/address>\nTwitter (follow us):\u00a0<\/i>www.twitter.com\/AIPrize<\/i><\/a><\/address>\nFacebook:\u00a0<\/i>Join Us<\/i><\/a><\/address>\nSkype ID: africaninnovationprize<\/i><\/address>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n We are excited to launch another year of the African Innovation Prize at the University of Sierra Leone – with participation from students from COMAHS, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":52081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,11448],"tags":[14575],"class_list":["post-52080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-aip-african-innovation-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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