For Individuals – Benefit Types in Higher Education – For Students
Student Competition Engagement
Description
LEARN Logistics financially supports national, regional, or international student competitions. A student competition is an event in which a single student or a group of students at undergraduate or postgraduate levels enter a solution, concept note, presentation, model, etc… to address a challenge as described by the competition committee. Typically, a jury assesses the submitted solutions and ranks the authoring students/group of students from top to bottom. The top ranked solutions usually win a prize in the form of cash or participation in a conference or even international level challenge. Each winning student will also obtain a winner certificate to add to its CV.
Student competitions can be initiated and distributed by any university or academic institution, or by a commercial organization, or by a non-profit organization such as a foundation, a networking, or a charity organization. Additionally, student challenges might also be initiated by Ministries or governmental- / non-governmental organizations. Please remember that the student challenge you may plan to enter shall have a link to the topics of logistics, supply chain management, transportation, or procurement. Potentially, students can also participate in student competitions if the challenge seeks for to a business management or e.g., entrepreneurial solution. In such cases, the submitted solution will have to include a logistics or supply chain management-related approach and concept to be considered for funding.
A good example is the annual The Social Logistics Challenge - GBSN by the Global Business School Network (GBSN) which every early autumn opens a student competition that asks for socially and logistically relevant and innovate solutions. The cash prize for the winning group is USD 5,000.
Eligibility for Student Competition Funding and Conditions
LEARN Logistics aims to enable students to excel academically independently of their financial background. The participation in a student competition at national or international level is a very good opportunity to showcase academic excellence. Therefore, LEARN Logistics offers financial support to students that help to develop competitive solutions to the posed challenges. Interested students have two options to apply for funding:
Option 1: Students can apply for funding prior to registering with the student competition.
- Advantage: you will know if LEARN Logistics funds your student competition budget
- Risk: your application might lack the specific budget, cost breakdown and reasoning before you have actually started with the competition.
Option 2: Students can apply for funding while they already participate in the student competition.
- Advantage: you have a specific idea of what you need funding for and justify your budget and cost breakdown very well
- Risk: LEARN Logistics may reject your application (for various reasons)
If your application for a Student Competition Funding is successful, LEARN Logistics may fund the following items:
- Necessary rental or purchase of software programs or hardware components to directly apply in the concept design during the student challenge (e.g., professional versions of survey software, etc…)
- Purchase of model building material
- Transport allowance for extensive local travel
- Small financial compensation for participating individuals (e.g., as part of interviews, etc…); only if required
- Travel, accommodation, and per Diems to a specific venue to collect information/data to integrate into the submitted solution
- Travel, accommodation, and per Diems to physically present during the final round of the student competition challenge (if shortlisted and applicable)
- Visa cost (if applicable)
- Other justifiable cost
Generally, all already enrolled students from the LEARN Logistics supported study programs are eligible to be considered for the Student Competition funding. Therefore, please consider that LEARN Logistics currently offers Student Competition support potentially only to students from the following universities, and that the amount of available funding is generally limited.
Supported Universities by LEARN Logistics in East- and West-Africa
- Addis Ababa University, School of Pharmacy
- Addis Ababa University, School of Commerce
- Bahir Dar University
- Mekelle University
- Jimma University
- University of Lagos
- Lagos State University
- Kaduna State University
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Makerere University Business School
- University of Nairobi
- Strathmore University
- University of Dar es Salaam
- Mzumbe University
Application for Student Competition Engagemanet
To obtain financial support as part of your participation in Student Competitionss, you must submit your application here, using the online application form. Do not apply for funding, if you are not eligible (check here if you are eligible for funding Eligibility for Student Competition Funding and Conditions. Any ineligible and unreasonable applications will be rejected, and the student may be blocked from any future support by LEARN Logistics or participation in one of its events.
Your online application must contain the following mandatory data and information. Please have all documents and copies available for uploading prior to starting the process. You cannot save your input during the application but must finish the application in one attempt. If you lack mandatory documents or information, you may need to re-start the application later again.
- Personal Data of each student participating in the student challenge
- Copy of passports of all participating students in the group
- Details of the organization that initiated/opened the Student Challenge
- Link to website at which the Student Challenge is posted and described (if available)
- Allocated supervisor from your university/study degree program / Academic from your home university for reference
- Registration fee (if any)
- Is travel and local accommodation required during the solution developing/modelling phase prior to submitting the final concept?
- Is travel and accommodation required to physically present the developed solution to a jury if short-listed
- History of previous engagement/funds obtained by LEARN Logistics
- Attachments
- Letter for Funding Request, i.e., a description of why and what LEARN Logistics shall financially support you with (max. 2 pages)
- Overview of total budget required to develop a solution incl. detailed cost breakdown
- Overview of your most recent certificate or grades (e.g., Bachelor certificate if you are a Master student; pre-liminary certificate about the latest grades for, etc…)
- Recommendation letter from your academic supervisor or a faculty member of your study program (if you apply as a group, one recommendation for the entire group is sufficient.
Disclaimer
The final decision about any form of financial or organizational support by LEARN Logistics for the applying student related to Student Competition funding, is solely and exclusively with LEARN Logistics. It is LEARN Logistics’ sole discretion to i) accept or reject applications; ii) to determine the total number of funded students; iii) to stop or add funding opportunities; iv) and to withdraw funding commitment if the student fails to comply with LEARN Logistics requirements, and/or provides false or incomplete information and data.