Challenge
Reveal the talent that turns ideas into solutions.
Overview
Pupils, students, young researchers, innovators and project leaders.
Challenge is CID's national programme of intellectual, scientific, entrepreneurial and civic competitions. It fosters excellence, innovation, creativity and a constructive spirit of competition among young people.
The programme gives pupils, students, young researchers, innovators and project leaders a platform to present their ideas, defend their convictions, develop their projects and demonstrate their abilities before panels of professionals, academics, entrepreneurs and partners. Challenge promotes applied research, technological innovation and the design of practical responses to major development challenges facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Africa.
Objectives
The lasting outcomes the programme is designed to achieve.
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Identify and promote young talent.
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Encourage scientific research and innovation.
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Develop communication, public-speaking and leadership skills.
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Showcase projects with strong societal impact.
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Identify future leaders, researchers and entrepreneurs.
Key activities
Practical formats for learning, experimenting, creating and connecting.
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Public-speaking and oratory competitions
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Reading and general-knowledge competitions
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Presentation of innovative projects with strong social impact
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Scientific, entrepreneurial and technology competitions
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Hackathons, debates, olympiads and the CID Challenge Awards
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