Queen Rania Foundation's Award for Education Entrepreneurship in the Arab World of $200,000
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Are you improving lives for learners in the Arab world? Do you have, or are you on the path to having, a sustainable business model?
The Queen Rania Foundation is running a competition to recognize the achievements and potential of the ‘home-grown’ education businesses in the Arab World who combine social impact with sustainable business models.
Eligibility criteria:
[1] Have more than an idea or a prototype - that is, you should already be providing products or services, and have a meaningful number of users
[2] Be headquartered in the Arab region
[3] Be primarily benefiting learners in the Arab world
[4] Have a commercial business model
[5] Submissions are accepted in either Arabic or English
Selection criteria:
[1] Innovation (up to 25 points):
- Have you identified and understood a substantial opportunity to improve outcomes for learners?
- Does your approach address the opportunity in a new and better way? Or does it meet a need that is currently not addressed?
[2] Your impact (up to 37.5 points):
- What convincing, real-world evidence do you have that your work is or will be sustainable on an ongoing basis?
- How many learners have you helped to date?
- What evidence do you have that your approach delivers its intended outcomes?
[3] Your scaling potential (up to 37.5 points):
- How accessible and relevant is what you do to a broad section of learners within the Arab world?
- To what extent does your team demonstrate an ability to scale and get things done, while maintaining a focus on the learner?
- How ambitious are your scaling plans?
Prize:
There will be a $200,000 award in the form of grants, to help the winners accelerate their growth plans. The winners will be announced by Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan.
About the Queen Rania Foundation:
From its founding in 2013 by Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, the Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) has aimed to be the premier resource on educational issues, in Jordan and around the Arab world, and to act as an incubator for new ideas and initiatives. In the firm belief that education is the foundation of economic, political and social development, QRF’s mandate has focused on identifying gaps and opportunities for developing new education programs, with the aim of influencing policy and creating educational change on the ground.