Simply go to awa.enactus.de and you will be automatically redirected to https://actionwithafricachallenge.fillout.com. There, please sign up using a valid email address and once you have logged in, you are ready to start! Please make sure to carefully review the Action With Africa Agreement and the Evaluation Criterion.

Yes, all teams with new or existing projects are invited to join the Action With Africa Challenge. This year, recently started projects can apply for a early-stage category. Advanced projects still require a proof-of-concept by the time the 1st Progress Report is submitted.

No, unfortunately. The Action With Africa program addresses Enactus projects and it is therefore not possible for individuals or non-Enactus businesses to participate.

Projects that have reached the TOP 8 in 2022 and were part of the TOP 6 in 2023 cannot participate again. All other teams and projects are welcome to apply another time.

For the avoidance of doubt: Enactus university teams that had a project amongst the TOP 8 (2022) and TOP 6 (2023) are allowed to apply again with a different project than the shortlisted one.

The Action With Africa program is an Africa-focused initiative that aims at creating jobs and local SDG impact. To ensure that the project funding is used in African countries, we ask you to explain how you realize your project locally from outside Africa and who supports you with this as a local partner.

Yes and no. You are free to change your project title until you submit your 1st Progress Report. You cannot change it anymore once you have submitted. Projects which – for some reason – submit under a different title than the one initially registered may be excluded from the Challenge.

No, it is only required that the Enactus university team presents a project at the National Competition. It does not need to be the project participating in the Action with Africa Challenge.

Teams have the chance to win their share of EUR 55,000 awarded as project funding:

Advanced Projects

Additionally, the TOP 6 teams will be invited to attend the Enactus World Cup in Astana and receive a fixed amount of travel funding which shall contribute to covering travel expenses.

The Jury Review Form is a newly designed template summarizing your entries from the 1st Progress Report. It presents all relevant information in an easy to read format allowing judges to navigate quickly through the individual questions.

Once you have submitted, you will receive a copy of the Jury Review Form for your records.

Unfortunately, there is not a guaranteed number of people who can travel to Astana. Instead, we will pay a fixed travel contribution in the amount of EUR 2,500 to each TOP 6 team. It then is up to the team to decide how many people can travel from that budget or if they manage to make other funding available. For the avoidance of doubt, the travel contribution is meant to compensate expenses incurred for flights, hotels and meals.

The deadline to sign up on the Action With Africa Challenge Portal is on 18 April at 23:59 GMT. This means that one simply needs
to create an account by that time.

 The 1^st Progress Report is due on 6 May. This date was chosen because participating teams are expected to report actual financial and impact figures from 1 Sep 2023 to 30 Apr 2024. If a 1^st Progress Report is submitted mid of April, it is obvious that the reported figures cannot be true numbers because half of the month April is still to come.

If you happen to submit before 30 April 2024, we kindly ask you to update your numbers in early May and submit again. 

To make changes, please log into the Action With Africa Challenge Portal and go to the 1^st Progress Report section. You should still be able to open and modify the 1^st Progress Report, even though you have submitted it already. If you cannot amend it, please let us know. Note that every time you re-submit a 1^st Progress Report, both you and the Action With Africa Team will receive confirmation emails again and a new Jury Review Form document will be created. If we have received various 1^st Progress Reports before the deadline from the same project team, we will consider the latest ones once the deadline on 6 May has passed.