Last year, six Nigerians won postgrduate scholarships to UK Universities through the Innovation 360 program. Another season of scholarship contest and awards has been launched by The British Council where succesful candidates can win upto 3.5million naira in scholarships.
Innovation 360 is designed to reward brilliant and creative Nigerian minds with the increasingly valuable Master’s degree from UK Universities. The program is desgined to enable these individuals come back to Nigeria after their studies in the UK and contribute practically to the development of the nation.
This year, Innovation 360 is supported by 4 UK Institutions – Kingston University, University of Northampton, University of Westminster and Coventry University. Winners will get a scholarship to any of these institutions.
Participation
Every Monday (i.e. November 29, December 13 and December 27), a new innovation task is unveiled on the Innovation 360 website (www.educationuk.org/nigeria/home). If you believe you have the solution to the week’s challenge, simply send the top lines of your idea in 160 characters to our SMS short code – 32326 by Wednesday of the first week (you can send in as many ideas as you want). We will send you a response text to confirm receipt of your idea.
The format for sending the text message should be: Mail<SPACE>Idea e.g Mail I think Nigeria can go green by using energy efficient light bulbs.
Our in-house screeners will shortlist all SMS received down to the 30 best ideas by Monday of the second week. If yours is one of them, you then get to send in a 750 words description of your bright idea to us. This must come in by Wednesday of the second week.
The top 10 ideas are shortlisted and a telephone interview conducted. By the end of the second week, we will pick the top 5 ideas for the week that then go on to the finals.
This cycle takes place 3 times. At the end of the Third Task (after 6 weeks), we will have 20 shortlisted people who go on to the grand finale.
The grand finale will be a Board Interview in Lagos. All 20 participants get to face a Board comprising of high profile UK Alumni, UKBA and British Council representatives, with different individual and group tasks to test their creativity and innovativeness to the utmost.
At the end of this full day process, the Board will select the final winners for the competition.
You can keep watching this space for more details.
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