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Funding

Give an early idea room to develop.

Catalyst grants support early prototyping through the Invention Education programme. They help innovators explore whether an idea is worth developing further.

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Catalyst Grant call for proposals poster: grants of up to $500 for hardware solutions to healthcare challenges, prototyped at CDIE, Kenyatta University

Call for proposals

Seed funding for hardware that answers a healthcare need.

Are you building a hardware solution to a critical healthcare challenge? Apply for the Research and Innovation Catalyst Grant in Engineering and bring your idea to life at the Centre for Design, Innovation & Engineering, Kenyatta University.

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Projects should demonstrate

  • Innovation and originality
  • Technical feasibility and realistic plans for development
  • Impact and community benefit
  • Sustainability and collaboration

Grants

Up to $500

Open to students and lecturers at Kenyan universities.

Prototyping is conducted at CDIE, Kenyatta University.

Apply anytime: rolling review

Submit your project to the team

Grant beneficiaries

Prototypes, presented.

At the Catalyst Grant event in May 2025, participants presented their prototypes and networked with peers and industry leaders.

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Building something? Tell us about it.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Write to the team about the project you are building, or follow us on LinkedIn for news of the grant.

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