{"id":4165,"date":"2021-12-27T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T09:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/27\/engineering-the-future-meet-the-africa-prize-shortlist-innovators\/"},"modified":"2021-12-27T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T09:36:36","slug":"engineering-the-future-meet-the-africa-prize-shortlist-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/27\/engineering-the-future-meet-the-africa-prize-shortlist-innovators\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering the future: meet the Africa prize shortlist innovators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turning invasive plants into a force for good and powering healthcare with solar \u2013 here are three of the 2022 nominees<\/p>\n<p>From a solar-powered crib that treats jaundiced babies to fibre made from water hyacinth that absorbs oil spills, innovators from nine African countries have been shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Engineering\u2019s 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raeng.org.uk\/global\/sustainable-development\/africa-prize\">Africa prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year half of the shortlist of 16 are women, and for the first time it includes Togolese and Congolese inventors. The entrepreneurs will undergo eight months of business training and mentoring before a winner is chosen, who will receive \u00a325,000, and three runners-up, who win \u00a310,000 each. All the projects are sustainable solutions to issues such as access to healthcare, farming resilience, reducing waste, and energy efficiency. The Guardian spoke to three of the shortlisted candidates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/27\/engineering-the-future-meet-the-africa-prize-shortlist-innovators\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/92956d990ca3afd33fe7add723a879b1aeb2c1b4\/9_0_6164_3700\/master\/6164.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1190e72b0fea04132c97cdf19cca381a\" title=\"Engineering the future: meet the Africa prize shortlist innovators\" \/>Turning invasive plants into a force for good and powering healthcare with solar \u2013 here are three of the 2022 nominees<br \/>\nFrom a solar-powered crib that treats jaundiced babies to fibre made from water hyacinth that absorbs oil spills, innovators from nine African countries have been shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Engineering\u2019s 2022 Africa prize.<br \/>\nThis year half of the shortlist of 16 are women, and for the first time it includes Togolese and Congolese inventors. The entrepreneurs will undergo eight months of business training and mentoring before a winner is chosen, who will receive \u00a325,000, and three runners-up, who win \u00a310,000 each. All the projects are sustainable solutions to issues such as access to healthcare, farming resilience, reducing waste, and energy efficiency. The Guardian spoke to three of the shortlisted candidates. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning invasive plants into a force for good and powering healthcare with solar \u2013 here are three of the 2022 nominees From a solar-powered crib that treats jaundiced babies to fibre made from water hyacinth that absorbs oil spills, innovators from nine African countries have been shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Engineering\u2019s 2022 Africa &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/27\/engineering-the-future-meet-the-africa-prize-shortlist-innovators\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engineering the future: meet the Africa prize shortlist innovators<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}