Opportunities

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Access $10,000 in the 2025 Global Innovation Challenge

Access $10,000 in the 2025 Global Innovation Challenge

Are you a young innovator with bold ideas to change the world? The 2025 Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge is officially open, and it's your time to shine. Designed for youth aged 18–30 , thi...

Africa African Entrepreneurs Business Career Development Innovation Opportunities Technology Youth

23‏/06‏/2025

Apply for MIT Sloan’s Foundry Fellowship!

Apply for MIT Sloan’s Foundry Fellowship!

Have you built a successful, innovation-driven business across Africa… and now feel ready for your next big leap ? The Foundry Fellowship , run by MIT Sloan’s Kuo Sharper Centre for Prosperity & Entre...

Africa African Entrepreneurs Career Development Entrepreneurship Fellowship Foundry Fellowship Opportunities Startup Africa

22‏/06‏/2025

Exponeur Academy: A Global Launchpad for Young Innovators

Exponeur Academy: A Global Launchpad for Young Innovators

Are you under 35 and ready to take your startup from local impact to international influence? The Exponeur Academy is here, and it's exactly what Africa’s next generation of changemakers has been wait...

Africa Business Career Development Innovation Mentorship Technology

20‏/06‏/2025

Apply for UNESCO’s Youth for Peace Programme

Apply for UNESCO’s Youth for Peace Programme

Launching in 2025 under the theme “Learning to Collaborate for a Shared Future: Using Dialogue to Foster Social Cohesion in a World on the Move” , this flagship initiative will select 50 young leaders...

Africa Career Development Leadership Opportunities Youth

19‏/06‏/2025

Funding & Support Now Open for Green Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

Funding & Support Now Open for Green Entrepreneurs in Tanzania

Goodwell Investments , in collaboration with the IYBA-WE4A programme (Investing in Young Businesses in Africa – Women Entrepreneurship for Africa), has launched a regional call for applications aimed ...

Africa Business Entrepreneurship SMEs Women

19‏/06‏/2025

Apply $30,000: IGNITE Food Systems Innovation Challenge 2.0

Apply $30,000: IGNITE Food Systems Innovation Challenge 2.0

The IGNITE Food Systems Innovation Challenge 2.0 is officially open, inviting SMEs, cooperatives, and agri-preneurs in the Somali and Tigray regions to step forward with the bold ideas that can reshap...

Africa Agriculture Food Systems Innovation Youth

19‏/06‏/2025

Apply Now for the Student Energy Career Training Program (Cohort 6)

Apply Now for the Student Energy Career Training Program (Cohort 6)

If you’re a young woman aged 18 to 30 with a passion for sustainability, climate, innovation, or engineering, the Student Energy Career Training Program (SECT) is calling your name. Now open for its 6...

Africa Career Development Employment Renewable Energy Women Youth

18‏/06‏/2025

The Entrepreneurship World Cup 2025 Wants Your Startup on the Global Stage

The Entrepreneurship World Cup 2025 Wants Your Startup on the Global Stage

In every corner of Africa, a new generation of founders is solving real problems, designing fintech apps in Lagos, building edtech tools in Kigali, and launching agritech platforms in Accra. And now, ...

Africa Entrepreneurship Innovation Startup

18‏/06‏/2025

Calling Africa’s Climate Storytellers: A Fully Funded Reporting Journey to COP30 in Brazil

Calling Africa’s Climate Storytellers: A Fully Funded Reporting Journey to COP30 in Brazil

It is time to tell your story, not just of global policy, but of how it touches African lives, lands, and livelihoods. This November, Belém, Brazil, becomes the world’s climate capital as it hosts COP...

Africa Climate Action Fellowship Opportunities

17‏/06‏/2025

Prize Fund $5.9m: Zayed Sustainability 2025

Prize Fund $5.9m: Zayed Sustainability 2025

Do you have a high-impact idea in energy, water, health, food, or climate action? Are you a youth-led initiative at a school level? The Zayed Sustainability Prize 2025 is now open, and it’s your chanc...

Africa Climate Action Development Innovation Non Profit Sustainability

17‏/06‏/2025

Applications Open for the Next Generation of African Innovators, 2025–2026

Applications Open for the Next Generation of African Innovators, 2025–2026

When East Africa’s brightest builders, disruptors, and dreamers come together, great things happen. The Next Generation Africa 2025–2026 initiative is now accepting applications, calling forward-think...

Africa East Africa Innovation Opportunities Rwanda Star-tup Youth

16‏/06‏/2025

Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program

Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program

The Next Generation Resource Governance Leaders Program is an internship that intends to balance a dose of theory with real-world application and equip participants with the requisite multi-disciplina...

Africa Digital Education Governance Leadership Resource Management Youth

15‏/06‏/2025

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