REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR HULTPRIZE LASU STUDENTS

Call for applicants: One Million Dollar Start-up Challenge

Registrations are now being accepted for the 2017 Hult Prize@ Lagos State University Challenge! Log on to http://hultprizeat.com/lagos. Will you be the next USD1Million winner?

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the 8th annual Hult Prize by competing on our very own on-campus event! This year's President's Challenge will tackle a global social challenge, as teams of 3-4 students come together from across campus and around the world to address:
Refugees - Reawakening Human Potential and Restoring the Dignity of 10 Million People by 2022!

Network with global leaders, meet students from all around the world, and receive USD1 million in
seed capital to launch your start-up. We have created the world's largest and most influential community to help you! Winning Hult Prize@ Lagos State University will automatically advance you to a regional competition where teams get to pitch their start-up in front of world-class judges, mentors and advisers.

Then, the regional finalists will attend an intensive 8-week summer incubator program before pitching their game-changing idea to President Clinton for the chance to win one million dollars in seed capital. Registering is easy. You don't need to have an idea or be an expert; the Hult Prize is designed to allow you to get started changing the world now! No prior experience in social impact.

We provide you with a detailed start-up manual, which outlines the challenge and brings to light the economic and social benefits that come with servicing the bottom of the economic pyramid. All you need to get started is the President’s Challenge and at team!

GET STARTED IN 3 EASY STEPS

1. Form a team of 3 to 4 students from your college or university (interdisciplinary teams are
encouraged)
2. Download the President’s Challenge from your Hult Prize@ Lagos State University Campus Director
3. Register to compete at your school website at http://hultprizeat.com/lagos

For Enquires :
Send an email to hultprizelasu@gmail.com
OR call
+2348139319159

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Call for Applicants for Lagos State University Students

Call for Applicants

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 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

see www.hultprizeat.com/lagos.

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2017 Hult Prize Challenge is HERE!

       
        We've waited quite some time for the President's challenge, it's finally Here. This year's challenge:

REAWAKENING HUMAN POTENTIAL; building sustainable, scalable start-up enterprise which restore the rights and dignity of 10 million refugees by 2022.

The 2017 Hult Prize ''President's Challenge'' is ''Refugees- Reawakening Human Potential'' and will focus on restoring the rights and dignity of people and societies who may be, or are forced into motion due to social injustices, politics and economic pressures, climate change and war.

This year's challenge would also work to restore the rights and dignity of those currently living in informal/illegal settlements.

This year's aim is to reach 10M by 2022 and believe young people and their collective wisdom is the only way forward. This challenge was selected by President Bill Clinton and announced at the 2016 Hult Prize Finals and Awards program New York 

Download 2017 Challenge (Coming Soon)
  

1. Hult Prize Foundation is estimating the total number of global refugees to be at 1 billion, not the UN and generally accepted number of 60M.
2. The refugee cycle has been redefined into 4-stages; pre-movement, in-motion, temporary location, permanent status.
3. The 2017 Challenge outlines very clear areas for disruptive innovation in each stage of the cycle.
4. Refugee present one of the world's largest untapped economic opportunities.
5. Reawakening human potential in refugees in motion unlocks the need for social innovation across a range of social service categories.  

 Stay Tuned!

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