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World’s Largest Student Competition Comes to Lagos State University as Students Tackle President Clinton’s Challenge.
Local campus event calling entrepreneurs to create viable start-ups and compete for $1 million in seed capital.
The Hult Prize is the world’s largest student competition and start-up platform for social good. In partnership with former President Bill Clinton, this innovative crowdsourcing platform identifies and
launches disruptive and catalytic social ventures that aim to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges.
launches disruptive and catalytic social ventures that aim to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges.
Student teams compete around the world for a chance to secure US$ 1 million in startup funding to launch a sustainable social venture.
The 2017 Hult Prize will focus:
Refugees - Reawakening Human Potential and Restoring the Dignity of 10Million People by 2022 – a challenge personally selected by President Bill Clinton as a global crisis in need of urgent attention and innovative solutions.
Refugees - Reawakening Human Potential and Restoring the Dignity of 10Million People by 2022 – a challenge personally selected by President Bill Clinton as a global crisis in need of urgent attention and innovative solutions.
Ahmad Ashkar, CEO and Founder of the Hult Prize, attributes the success of the competition to the shift in the global economy and the millennial generation’s refusal to live in a world with inequality.
“We are giving entrepreneurs from around the world a platform to innovate and revolutionize the way we think about servicing the disadvantaged,” Ashkar commented.
The winning team from the Hult Prize@ Lasu event will be fast-tracked to compete at one of the five Hult Prize regional finals events around the world, bypassing the general application which annually receives over 20,000 applicants from more than 350 colleges and universities in over 150 countries.
The Hult Prize regional competitions will take place on March 3 and 4, 2017 in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai.
Following the regional finals, one winning team from
each host city will attend a summer business accelerator, where participants will receive mentor-ship, advisory and strategic planning as they create prototypes and set-up to launch their new social business.
each host city will attend a summer business accelerator, where participants will receive mentor-ship, advisory and strategic planning as they create prototypes and set-up to launch their new social business.
A final round of competition will take place in September, where one team will be selected as the winner and will be awarded the US$ 1,000,000 seed capital by President Bill Clinton himself.
In the words of President Clinton, “The Hult Prize is a wonderful example of the creative cooperation needed to build a world with shared opportunity, shared responsibility, and shared
prosperity, and each year I look forward to seeing the many outstanding ideas the competition
produces.”
prosperity, and each year I look forward to seeing the many outstanding ideas the competition
produces.”
About the Hult Prize Foundation
The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship, which brings together the brightest college and university students from around the globe to solve the world’s most pressing issues.
The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship, which brings together the brightest college and university students from around the globe to solve the world’s most pressing issues.
The annual initiative is the world’s largest student competition and crowd-sourcing platform. To compete, please email Udebuana Oscar Obiora at oscarobiora@gmail.com For more information and
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