FMN Prize for Innovation 4.0 for Nigerian MSMEs & Students (Up to N10Million Grant)

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Applications are open for FMN Prize for Innovation 4.0. Are you an innovator ready to redefine the future of livestock farming in Nigeria? This year, FMN is spotlighting “Innovative Practices in Livestock Farming in Nigeria” and this is your chance to showcase your groundbreaking ideas and compete for amazing prizes. And the opportunity to be mentored by some of the Group’s business strategists and communications experts.

FMN Prize for Innovation 4.0. Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, a leading food and agro-allied group in Africa, launches the FMN Prize for Innovation to encourage new ideas in food production, innovation, and engineering and how these can impact and enable a sustainable food system in Nigeria.

Every year, FMN Prize for Innovation will highlight an important part of the food value chain that is critical to the transformation and long-term development of the country’s food systems.

Contestants Entries

Big Ideas From The Maiden Edition.

The maiden edition of FMN’s Prize for Innovation aimed to foster creative ideas and technology-powered solutions to address concerns of food loss and wastage in Nigeria’s food production process. The competition was split into two categories, to accept entries from Nigerian MSMEs & Nigerian students in undergraduate and post graduate levels.

Eligibility Criteria for FMN Prize for Innovation 4.0

Category one:

Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) that are registered in Nigeria and operate in the agro-processing and food production space.
Your big idea and innovative solution can address food loss and wastage in the food production process in Nigeria.
Your idea has a solid proof-of-concept, a social or commercial purpose, and a clear roadmap to scale.

Category two:

Nigerian Students (Undergraduate or post-graduate level)
Your big idea and innovative solution can address food loss and wastage in the food production process in Nigeria.
Your idea has a solid proof-of-concept, a social or commercial purpose, and a clear roadmap to scale.

Benefits

Category One

Successful candidates in this category will be invited to pitch their ideas in front of live judges who will award the winner the prize of N5 million.

Category Two