Call for Applications: AccelerateLab Support Program for young entrepreneurs in Nigeria

Accelerate LABS will be activating the Small and Medium Scale Engine to accelerate economic development through enterprise development and technology incubation.

Focus:

The goal of this project is to equip 2,500 youths (Across the 6 Geo-political zones in Nigeria) by building socially inclined, high profit, and highly competitive enterprise capable of impacting the GDP.

Eligibility :

Accelerate Labs empowers youths between the ages 18 and 35 to develop empathy, find clarity of purpose and the needed resource in form of Technology, training, knowledge, mentors and seed funding required for them to build socially responsible enterprises in their communities.

Application:

If you think you are qualified to be a beneficiary of Accelerate Labs. Register below:

North Central Registration
North East Registration
North West Registration
South East Registration
South South Registration
South West Registration

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Apply for the Anzisha Prize Award For Innovate Business Ventures

The Anzisha Prize seeks to award young entrepreneurs who have developed and implemented innovative solutions to social challenges or started successful businesses within their communities. 15 finalists from across Africa win a spot in a lifelong fellowship what will help to accelerate their path to entrepreneurship success.

Eligibility :

  • You must be between 15 and 22 years old with an ID document or Passport to present as evidence. Anyone born before April 16, 1994 or after April 16, 2001 will not be considered.
  • You must be a national of an African country with a business based in Africa for African customers/ beneficiaries.
  • Your business must be up and running. The Anzisha Prize is not for great ideas or business plans – you must have already started, and be able to prove it! You have time to get started now and have tangible results to share before applications open.
  • Your business, invention or social project can be in any field or industry (science and technology, civil society, arts and culture, sports, etc.). Any kind of venture is welcome to apply.
  • Individuals who apply must be one of the founding members of a business (for example, 2 or 3 co-founders who started a business together). One person can apply for the Prize, on behalf of the team.
  To be selected as one of our Anzisha ventures, your business or project will be judged on the following 5 criteria:
  • Already Running Venture: Is the venture established with customers and beneficiaries? Does the venture deliver value to said beneficiaries and customers?
  • Founder-led: Is the venture led and managed by the founder?
  • Impact: Has the venture demonstrated some impact already?
  • Scalability: If the venture is a for-profit business, does it already earn revenues and does it have potential increase revenues with the support of Anzisha? If the venture is a not-for-profit enterprise, does it already reach beneficiaries and does it have the potential to reach many more beneficiaries with support from Anzisha?
  • Job Creation: Has the venture created some jobs and has the potential to create more high quality jobs?
 To be selected as one of our Anzisha Fellows, you must demonstrate the two following qualities:
  • Venture leader: Are you the leader of your venture and do you drive both venture strategy and operations?
  • Commitment: Do you spend at least 20 hours a week or more on your business and will you continue to do so after selection?

Value of the Fellowship – Additional investment of $8,000/ $10,000 in each Fellow

  1. Monetary Reward of a shared amount of $100,000
  2. $2,000 access to a world- renowned Entrepreneurial Leadership curriculum and training with the potential for further investment based on engagement and performance
  3. $2,500 worth of rewards from consulting and mentorship services
  4. $2,000 worth of rewards from Global speaking events or Experts in Residence support
  5. $1,000 worth of rewards from Regional Indabas across Africa
Click here to download the application guide
Click here to apply for the Anzisha Prize in English
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2018 GSK-Kellogg-USAID Global Health Case Competition in London

Deadline: 22nd April,2018

The GSK | Kellogg | USAID Global Health Case Competition brings together business students from around the world to discuss global health challenges. Students will be placed into teams and, together, develop a proposed solution to a given global health case study that they will then present to a panel of judges. Students will also participate in site visits to local partners from both the public and private sectors (e.g., McKinsey & Company, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, social enterprises, etc.).

Goals

  • Build business-minded global health capacity in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States
  • Generate new thinking and solutions to real world global health challenges
  • Identify (business/private sector) talent in the global health space
  • Raise awareness and interest in global health opportunities and challenges among the business community
  • Build relationships between students and schools across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States
  • Generate new global health case studies to be used in business school curriculum globally

Offer

All students accepted to the competition will be fully funded. The event will be held at GSK’s headquarters at 980 Great West Road, London, UK.  GSK will generously provide expenses to fund travel to and from the event, and lodging/food expenses in London. More details regarding travel booking and visa processing will be distributed via email to those accepted to the case competition.

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Apply for a full scholarship to study RNTC Media courses in Netherland,2018

Deadline: 15 March 2018

 The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides OKP (formerly known as NFP) and MSP scholarships for the RNTC courses for media and communications professionals from a variety of partner countries. The scholarships include a contribution towards the cost of living, the course fees, visa, travel, and insurance. If applicable, the scholarship holder is expected to cover the difference between actual costs and the OKP or MSP scholarship amount.

 The scholarships are administered by Nuffic, the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education. OKP stands for ‘Orange Knowledge Programme’ and these scholarships are available for 51 countries. MSP stands for ‘MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) Scholarship Programme’ and is available for 10* countries.  Please check whether you meet the criteria to apply for an OKP or MSP scholarship.

Eligibility

Apart from the RNTC course admission requirements, you need to meet the following requirements to be eligible for an OKP (formerly known as NFP) scholarship:

  • You are national and live and work in one of the countries in the Nuffic OKP list, which you can find here;
  • You must not be employed by an organisation that has its own means of staff-development. Organisations that are considered to have their own means for staff development are for example: multinational corporations (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft), large national and/or a large commercial organisations, bilateral donor organisations (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid), multilateral donor organisations, (e.g. a UN organisation, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB), international NGOs (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care);
  • You have an Employer’s Statement that complies with the format Nuffic has provided. All information must be provided and all commitments that are included in the format must be endorsed in the statement;
  • You have an official and valid passport;
  • You do not receive more than one fellowship for courses that take place at the same time;
  • You have a Government Statement (only if applicable, please check this overview) that meets the requirements of the country in which the employer is established.

N.B. The OKP program has no age limit.

MSP scholarship

Apart from the RNTC course admission requirements, you need to meet the following requirements to be eligible for an MSP scholarship:

  • You are a national of and live and work in one of the following Middle East and North African (MENA) countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria*, Tunisia;
  • The MSP is ONLY open to applicants of Syrian nationality who are residing and working outside of Syria in one of the other selected MENA countries.
  • You are not over 45 years of age at the time of the scholarship application deadline

Click here to apply

 

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Apply for the Global Fellowship Program for Social Entrepreneurs 2018

Deadline: March 5th,2018

These are the main questions that you will need to complete in your online submission:

Tell us about your social business

  • Social Business Name
  • Website
  • Facebook Page
  • Describe your social business in one or two sentences.
  • Are you legally incorporated? Please specify the country and the legal form. (100 characters)
  • When was your social business started?
  • What social problem do you want to solve? (300 characters)
  • How does your social business solve that problem? (500 characters)

Tell us about your customers & revenue model

  • Who are your beneficiaries/users? (300 characters)
  • Who are your paying customers? Are they different from your beneficiaries? (300 characters)
  • How do you plan to acquire more customers? How do you plan to grow and scale? (300 characters)
  • How many customers have paid for your product/service in the past 12 months (since you have started working if less than 12 months)? (100 characters)
  • Who are your competitors and how are you different from what they offer? (500 characters)
  • What kind of evidence do you have that your solution works/will work? (300 characters)
  • What is the most important measure/indicator of your success? (100 characters)
  • What are your main expenses? (300 characters)
  • What is your revenue model? How does your social business makes money?

Tell us about your team

  • Who are the founders?
  • Who are the other team members?
  • What roles/people/knowledge is your team missing?

 

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The RIC Cities for our Future Challenge- £50,000 Grand Prize

Deadline: 31 May 2018.

The Cities for our Future Challenge is a global competition run by the Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in partnership with UNESCO UKNC and the ACU.

Are you an imaginative, problem solving young professional, start-up or student involved in surveying, urban design, architecture, or engineering? Then share your transformative ideas for projects and policies that solve some of the defining issues of our time: Rapid Urbanisation, Climate Change, and Resource Scarcity.

The winner will receive a £50,000 prize and mentoring with industry experts to bring their idea to life.

Submit your entry by selecting a challenge by core topic and region of the world. The best entries will be shortlisted in June 2018, and each entrant will receive mentoring from a RICS professional to help develop their idea ready for the final global judging.

An international judging panel will select the final winner from the shortlisted applicants in November 2018.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Exciting, innovative ideas that help solve Rapid Urbanisation, Resource Scarcity and Climate Change. Our judges will rate your idea based on impact, excitement, scale, relevance and feasibility.

 WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Students in the fields of surveying, design, architecture or engineering.

Start-ups who want to boost the prospects of their proptech, green or built environment business.

Young professionals in the fields of surveying, design, architecture or engineering.

HOW TO ENTER

  1. First, choose the topic you want to tackle: Rapid Urbanisation, Resource Scarcity or Climate Change, then select the city you’d most like to create a solution for
  2. Read the brief and download the entry document.
  3. Fill in the document with your entry and then submit it online by 31 May 2018. All entries must be in English.
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Shell LiveWIRE Nigeria Programme

LiveWIRE Nigeria Programme

    • Are you aged 18-35 in Nigeria?
  • Do you have an innovative business idea?
  • Do you desire to  own and manage a business?
  • Do you possess a University degree or HND in any discipline?
  • Have you completed NYSC (if mandatory)?
  • Not in paid employment.

Kindly send your application via email to info@livewire-nigeria.org stating:

  1. Full name
  2. State of origin
  3. Community
  4. Local Government  Area
  5. Date of Birth
  6. Email
  7. Marital status
  8. Telephone no (s)
  9. Residential Address
  10. Educational qualification
  11. Subject area
  12. Type of business
  13. Description of business idea
  14. Place of Business/Address
  15. What is innovative about your business idea?
  16. Years of experience
  17. Do you have a Physical Disability
  18. Type of Disability
  19. Business name
  20. CAC registration if any
  21. Business address
  22. Name of Referee (s)
  23. Telephone number of Referee
  24. Address of Referee

NB: If shortlisted, you will be required to attend a face-to-face interview with the following

  1. Birth Certificate/Age Declaration sworn affidavit
    2. Copies of Educational Qualification
    3. Two passports photographs
    4. Local Govt. Identification Letter

This application does not guarantee being shortlisted for the Shell LiveWIRE  Nigeria Programme.

Only shortlisted candidates will receive further communication via their email addresses.

 

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AyadaLab Incubation Programme for West Africa Entrepreneur

About the program

AyadaLab is a French-German 12-month intensive networking and qualification program for West Africa entrepreneurs

AyadaLab takes place in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana, from january to December 2018.

It consists of local and regional workshops, mentoring by some of the best African entrepreneurs in the fields of cultural, digital and social entrepreneurship, networking with leading German and French cultural, social and digital entrepreneurs. The program takes place in English and French, the two languages of the Lab.

* ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

  • Aged between 20 and 35
  • Be a national of and based in either Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria or Cameroon
  • Have a 1 year project experience or a tested idea creating value of innovation with high impact on society
  • Have a project in the Cultural and Creative industries (fashion, books, cinema, etc.), Digital (online courses, e-learning, digital education), or Civil society issues (education, women rights and empowerment, civic tech, active citizens)

Application:http://ayadalab.com

 

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Call for Applications,the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) 2018

The Challenge

Africa leads the world in the number of women starting businesses, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Many experts, including the World Economic Forum and the World Bank, believe that the 21st century is Africa’s century and that its economic future is dependent on the success of women entrepreneurs.

However, these same experts and the Center for Global Enterprise agree that women entrepreneurs in Africa face barriers that threaten to stifle innovation and slow the growth needed to propel their businesses and local economies. These challenges include:

  • Unequal access to business education, management training
  • Lack of high-quality, affordable, and online learning options
  • Social norms and familial responsibilities
  • Lack of networking opportunities and peer groups
  • Unequal access to financial management training and capital

Changing Lives Through Skills Training, Mentorship, and Peer Networks

CGE developed the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC) in response to those challenges and to feedback from African alumni of its online learning courses who requested more in-depth training on critical management topics, longer program engagement and mentorship, and a sustained peer network.

AWEC one-of-a-kind, 12-month training program that builds a pan-African community of women entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering them with strategy, leadership and business management skills needed for growth and economic advancement. Additional details about the core program are available on our Program page.

 

Who Should Apply

AWEC is designed for women from across Africa and its diaspora who run startup or growth stage companies in any industry. Those who are interested in increasing their business management skills and growing their networks are encouraged to apply for the inaugural program year.

Aspiring entrepreneurs with business experience, an idea for a venture, and a passion for entrepreneurship are also eligible for the program.

The application period opens on 31 January 2018 and the program begins on 3 April 2018.

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