Pierre Castel Prize 2025 for Africans

The Pierre Castel Prize 2025 is a pan-African competition that supports young entrepreneurs driving sustainable development in their countries, with a focus on agriculture and the food industry and expanded scope to include innovation in food systems. Prizes include a main financial endowment, mentoring, coaching, and various opportunities such as participation in a residency program and access to master classes and trade fairs. Eligible applicants are entrepreneurs operating in specified sectors, aged 18-45, with a legally registered business and a development project with measurable impact, and who are nationals of listed African countries.

Financial endowment for top winners, mentoring and coaching programs, opportunities to participate in a residency, business networking, master classes, and support for international trade fairs and certifications.

Entrepreneurs operating in specified sectors, 18-45 years old, with a registered business for at least one year, and a development project with measurable impact; must be a national of one of the eligible countries and reside there.

Applications are open and require documents such as identity, CV, financial year records, proof of business existence, and a development-project presentation; applications can be submitted via the provided application portal.