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Project Kindle

An initiative of Top30Under30 with support from Seven Fund and the Branson School of Entrepreneurship.

The Approach

The time is ripe for a new approach. It is time to reorient our policies to focus on Nigeria's most valuable yet least valued resource, the human capital of Nigerians themselves.

Universities are a hotspot of entrepreneurial talents and we must put this in perspective into our larger strategy that aims to unleash the entrepreneurial force of Africa. University students are some of Nigeria's greatest asset for the present and the future, Young African women and men are the continent’s greatest asset for the present and the future; however at the same time they represent a group facing serious constraints. All too often their full potential is not realized because they do not have access to the required support or resource to turn their ideas into reality

The objective of this initiative is to kindle entrepreneurship among University students, both as a means of self employment and as job creation for others.

Kindle Entrepreneurial Challenge

Wanted 1 Entrepreneur
0.1 million in Prize money
0.4 million in business advisory services of up to 6 months
1 week business trip to the Branson School of Entrepreneurship, South Africa

Top30Under30 is seeking the most promising entrepreneur on OAU campus who can impress the Top30Under30 team enough to be offered a share of up to 0.5 million in funding and business advisory services, with the generous support of SEVEN Fund.

Interested? Download the application form. DOC PDF Application closes 12 midnight on Friday, July 26, 2009.

Partners

Seven Fund
Branson School of Entrepreneurship

About OAU

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is a government-owned and operated Nigerian university; The University is located in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1962 as the University of Ife, and was renamed Obafemi Awolowo University in May 1987 in honour of Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987), the first Nigerian premier of the Western Region of Nigeria who was also the university's founding statesman and first Chancellor. Website: www.oauife.edu.ng

About Branson School of Entrepreneurship

Branson School of Entrepreneurship is one of the Schools of Excellence at CIDA City Campus, the South Africa’s first virtually free tertiary institution, providing specialised accredited business administration degrees to disadvantaged students. This is for the first time anywhere in the world that the founder of Virgin, Sir Richard Branson has lent his name to an educational institution.

The Branson School of Entrepreneurship is a collaboration between the CIDA and the Virgin Group; the two organisations with immense entrepreneurial flair and passion for creative solutions to business challenges.

The Branson School of Entrepreneurship focuses on encouraging entrepreneurship, creating jobs and developing untapped human potential so that people can transform themselves, their communities and their country through education, a positive attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit.