The U.S. Department of State and IREX seek academic, professional, and regional experts to read and score applications for the 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship. Over the first eight years of the Fellowship, the program received nearly 300,000 applications from 49 sub-Saharan African countries for 5,800 Fellow slots. The Mandela Washington Fellowship
The Westerwelle Young Founders Programme (YFP) is a six-month fellowship for 25 leaders uplifting emerging and developing markets towards a sustainable future. Westerwelle offer targeted support to scale our founders’ ventures and develop their leadership abilities, with the following programme plan: Kick-Off Conference: A two-day digital kick-off conference will take place
Are you an emerging artist or storyteller on the pulse of entrepreneurship in Africa? Apply for the Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund The Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund calls for application from emerging artists, journalists and content creators including bloggers, bloggers, and podcasters whose work offers a more contemporary and authentic narrative of
iHatch is a 5-month free intensive incubation program designed to help Nigerian entrepreneurs refine their business ideas through a series of coaching, lectures, and boot camps, to generate viable and scalable business models. The incubation programme will focus on the youths, innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. Requirements: INDIVIDUALS/GROUPS WITH AN INNOVATIVE BUSINESS
MTN Y’ellopreneur is an initiative of the MTN Foundation designed to provide capacity-building and funding opportunities to qualified Nigerian female entrepreneurs, in collaboration with the Bank of Industry. The Foundation is committed to bridging female entrepreneurial skills gap, through a 4-week virtual training programme meant to ultimately empower more female folks, in alignment with the Federal
Pitch AgriHack is a digital agriculture competition focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation in the agriculture sector by leveraging advanced technologies and youth participation in Africa’s food security agenda. This eighth edition of Pitch AgriHack invites African businesses to pitch their approach to driving technological innovation in the agriculture
The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) is organizing the 11th edition of the Atlantic Dialogues Conference, a high-level conference convening influential public and private sectors leaders from around the Atlantic Basin for open, informal discussion on cross-regional issues. The ADEL program is PCNS’s flagship young professionals program, held two days prior to the Atlantic Dialogues
The International Breweries Foundation is an arm of International Breweries Plc, (a proud part of the AB InBev Group) with the objective of delivering impactful, developmental, and sustainable projects. Kickstart is an initiative of the Foundation and focuses on enterprise growth and development for young entrepreneurs. The programme supports youth-owned businesses through the
The Biodesign Innovation Fellowship is a 10-month experience that equips aspiring innovators with a proven, repeatable process to identify important health-related needs, invent novel health technologies to address them (including medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, drug delivery, and biotechnology solutions), and prepare to implement those products into patient care through start-up,
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program (MCFSP) at the University of Pretoria (UP) for full-time postgraduate study is open to students who have already completed a bachelor’s degree and are residents or citizens of an African country. This Program targets academically qualified, yet economically disadvantaged, young people in Africa who will go

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The Claude Campus Ambassador Program 2026 for students and researchers worldwide ($3,600 Stipend, Get API Credits & Lead AI Initiatives on Campus)
The International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) 2027 IRENA Youth Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE (Fully Funded)
The Julius Berger Nigeria 2026 Workshop Engineer Development Programme for Nigerian graduates.
WTO Youth Talent Incubator Programme – 2nd Edition for young Researchers and Professionals in Trade and Gender.
The World Bank Group (WBG) Young Professionals Program (YPP) 2027 (Technical & Managerial roles at the World Bank Group)
The AfricaCDC Youth Pre-Conference 2026 for young Africans (Fully Funded to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Rhodes West Africa Scholarships 2027 for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Fully Funded)
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