Applications are open for the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) Innovation Award Program 2022. The goal of the Award is to improve the healthcare ecosystem by supporting healthcare innovations. This is achieved by showcasing innovators’ work on the global stage, linking them to potential investors and mentors. Available Competitions Spark
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator sources, supports and scales bold new solutions to disrupt global hunger and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. For this year’s challenges WFP are looking for disruptive innovations for fighting hunger in areas such as resilience to shocks and stress, climate change, access
The 2022 call for applications for the AfOx-HIP Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scheme is now open. A multi-disciplinary platform, the AfOx-HIP will support African innovators develop new solutions to Africa’s health challenges. AfOx-HIP is open to work in any scientific discipline, including outside life sciences and engineeringsciences, and any type of technology leading
African Union (AU)-UNICEF Youth Innovation Challenge on the Impact of Harmful Practices on the Mental Health of Children and Young People Survivors of harmful practices such as children marriage and FGM may find it difficult to seek help and cope with the mental health and psychological challenges due to their
The Kofi Annan Award has been initiated by the Austrian Federal Chancellery, in collaboration withthe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator, the Austrian Development Agency and the Kofi Annan Foundation. The Award aims to identify and support promising social entrepreneurs with digital or technology-powered solutions for people in Africa to help them build the
Applications are open for the WomHub Africa Innovation Fellowship 2021. Since 2019, the Africa Innovation Fellowship has been supporting women-owned STEM innovations across sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Innovation Fellowship 2021 is a six-month leadership and business development opportunity for women African innovators with an early-stage engineering innovation or start up.
Applications for the Ayoka Fellowship – Social Innovation Lab 2021-2022 are now open. Puerta de África and Casa África are excited to announce the launch of the 2022 Social Innovation Lab to bridge and train African, Afrodescent and European emerging leaders. They are committed to building a community of social
Applications are open for the African Union Digital and Innovation Fellowship 2021. The fellowship is a robust program that identifies and deploys highly competent tech innovators within the African continent to organs within the African Union Headquarters and organs as ‘resident fellows’ to understand the system within those organs; identify challenges
Do you have a project with the potential to solve hunger? Apply to the World Food Program Innovation Accelerator 2021 to receive up to $100,000 in equity-free funding, mentorship from industry experts and access to the world’s largest humanitarian organisation. The World Food Program has launched the call for applications in search
Applications for the Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers (i-FAIR) 2021/2022 are now open. The Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers is an initiative for raising a generation of innovators, inventors and researchers in Nigeria. This 9-month innovation start-up initiative of the Israeli Embassy in Nigeria and the Office of

Rhodes West Africa Scholarships 2027 for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Fully Funded)
Vacancy: Executive Office Analyst (Graduate Trainee)
The Consolidated Hallmark Graduate Trainee Program 2026 for young Nigerian graduates.
Asset & Resource Management (ARM) Graduate Trainee Program 2026 for young Nigerian graduates.
The SystemSpecs Children’s Day Essay Competition 2026 for young Nigerians (₦1,000,000 Prize)
The Sahara Group Global Management Trainee Programme 2026 for young Nigerian graduates.
The 2026 GSK Africa Open Lab Postgraduate Fellowship in Biostatistics /Health Data Science for early-career African scientists (Fully Funded)
The American University of Beirut (AUB) Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2026/2027 for Online Masters study (Fully Funded).
Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) OND Internship Programme 2026 for young Nigerians