JFD’s “Women rAIsing” 2025 Promotion: Compete for €1 Million Growth Acceleration Programme

Through les Margaret Awards, Join Forces & Dare (JFD) supports the growth and international influence of startups and initiatives led by European, African and Canadian women.

Since its creation, the prize has rewarded nearly 50 women, each with a one-year growth acceleration programme worth €1 million in collaboration with JFD partners.

The new 2025 promotion will place women at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution and reward innovative AI-based projects that address the major challenges of their century.

Benefits

• The winners will benefit from the JFD growth acceleration programme, worth €1 million, for 1 year. The programme is developed in collaboration with JFD partners. This personalised support meets the specific development and visibility needs of the winners: mentoring, coaching, media coverage, financing, networking, etc.

Categories

• Entrepreneur
  • Woman founder or co-founder of an innovative company focused on artificial intelligence and meeting the major challenges of the 21st century.
• Intrapreneur
  • A female employee of a company with an innovative in-house project that could lead to the creation of a new business or activities thanks to AI.
• Junior
  • Young woman aged between 14 and 22, whose project addresses a major social issue through the application of artificial intelligence solutions.

Eligibility Criteria

• Participation in the competition is free and there is no obligation to purchase. All entries must be made via Internet, to the exclusion of any other means. In particular, entries by post are excluded.
• The application must be submitted exclusively by a woman who is the founder or co-founder of an innovative company, for the ‘Entrepreneur’ category, an employee of a company who has developed a project in agreement with her employer, while remaining an employee, for the ‘Intrapreneur’ category, or a young girl aged between 14 and 22 for the ‘Junior’ category.
• Only innovative projects in the field of artificial intelligence will be considered for the ‘Women rAIsing’ promotion of the Margaret Awards.
• The participant must be Canadian or a citizen of a European or African country:
  • Canada: the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the territories of Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon.
  • Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (mainland and DOM TOM), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
  • Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, South Africa, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• The contestant guarantees that she holds, directly or by licence, all the intellectual and industrial property rights necessary for the presentation, development and marketing of the product or solution defended before the jury of the Margaret Awards.
• The contestant certifies that the content of her product and/or solution is original, innovative and in the field of artificial intelligence for a better world.
• The same person may not submit several applications for the ‘Project’ presented. The contestant’s contact details (e-mail address and telephone number) are requested in order to facilitate communication at the various stages of the competition.

Selection Criteria

• The Contestant declares that the Project does not infringe, in whole or in part, any copyright or the rights of any third party, or any other provision of applicable law, and therefore assumes full responsibility for the Project.
• Only innovative Projects in the field of artificial intelligence will be considered for the ‘Women rAIsing’ promotion of the Margaret Awards.

For more information, visit JFD.