Theophilus Femi Alawonde
Students Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hub (S.E.I.H.)—a student-run organisation in the University of Ibadan— has made open applications for the UI Campus Edition of the Hult Prize 2021. The call for applications, which was officially made on Monday, 4 October, 2020, was shared across all social media platforms, and it invites students of the University of Ibadan who have innovative ideas that match the Hult 2021 theme of “Food for Good: Transforming Food into a Vehicle for Change”.
According to the Hult Prize 2021 one-pager, “the Hult Prize is asking teams around the world to build viable food enterprises that will impact the lives of 10M people in the next decade while strengthening communities, increasing incomes, feeding the hungry and creating jobs.”
The Hult Prize encourages teamwork, therefore, all applications must be submitted by a team of three to four people, to be considered valid. Applications for the Hult Prize 2021, UI Campus Edition, will run between Monday, 4 October, 2020 and Friday, 30 October, 2020. According to the Hult Prize UI Campus Director, Faithwin Gbadamosi, there will be a boot camp for all competing teams a week after the close of registrations, after which the competition will start in November 2020. Also, Hult Prize UI will be completely virtual, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The organising team of the Hult Prize UI 2021 organised two information sessions to help intending competing teams have a grasp of what the Hult Prize is all about.
The first sessions which was facilitated by Ranan Jouda and Doye Abioro, was centred on the opportunities that come along with participation in Hult Prize, and how to test and validate one’s ideas before pitching them at the Hult Prize.
First Information Session for Hult Prize 2021 https://youtu.be/7W8LoGOzr5M
The second information session, facilitated by Damilola Mogaji and Kelechi Victor, centred on the Hult Prize 2021 Challenge: the theme, theme selection and proposed goals.
Second Information Session, Hult Prize UI 2021
To apply for the Hult Prize UI 2021 Challenge, visit http://hultprizeat.com/unibad
