Dunin-Deshpande Seed Funding Prize (Mayor's Innovation Challenge)
Gives Kingston post-secondary students phased seed funding and a part-time venture-building program for projects that improve city life or municipal services.
The $5,000 Dunin-Deshpande Seed Funding Prize doesn't arrive as one payment: it unlocks across three named phases of the QYourVenture program, an initial $1,000 at the Explore phase, then $2,000 at the Ignite phase, and a final $2,000 at the Launch phase, each released against actual eligible project expenses on a reimbursement basis. The challenge runs as two separate streams, each carrying its o…
The Mayor's Innovation Challenge is open to individuals or teams of current and recently graduated students from Kingston's major post-secondary institutions. Proposals must contribute to quality of life for residents or leverage technology to improve municipal service delivery. The challenge runs as two separate streams, each with its own prize; a student picks one of the two to enter, not both.
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