Submissions open for Africa Earth Observation Challenge 2025

Submissions open for Africa Earth Observation Challenge 2025

Deadline: 30 August 2025

Submissions are now open for the Africa Earth Observation Challenge to drive entrepreneurial activity in the African space industry and promote awareness of the value of Earth Observation to a broad community.

Aim

• To identify innovative applications of space-based data across seven thematic areas, with climate change and navigation & positioning as cross-cutting areas. Also included for consideration, across all thematic areas, is innovative data collection techniques. These include upstream technologies like new satellites, onboard processing units and innovative in-situ measurement techniques.

Thematic Areas

• The 2025 thematic areas include:
  • Climate change;
  • Agriculture;
  • Disaster Risk Reduction;
  • Natural Resource Monitoring;
  • Sustainable Urban/Rural development;
  • Healthcare.

Eligibility Criteria 

• Business location
  • The Challenge is open to businesses across the African continent
• Business development level
  • Early stage funding/angel investor ready businesses (TRL 8/9 and BRL 1/2/3 )
  • Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
    • For this Challenge they are looking for businesses that are at the ‘deployment’ technology readiness level (TRL), specifically TRL8 or TRL9.
  • Business Readiness Level 1/2/3 (BRL)
    • For this Challenge they are looking for businesses that are at the ’seed and development’, ‘start-up’ and ‘growth and establishment’ levels.

For more information, visit AEOC.