Do you work in an organization or network supporting entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainability and green transition? Apply for the Impact Pioneers ’24: Enabling Impact Entrepreneurship Leadership Programme.
Do you work in an organization or network supporting entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainability and green transition? Apply for the Impact Pioneers ’24: Enabling Impact Entrepreneurship Leadership Programme.
The Swedish Institute invites applicants for the Impact Pioneers: Enabling Impact Entrepreneurship Leadership Programme. The hybrid Programme targets entrepreneurship ecosystem enablers, leaders and practitioners working in organizations and networks developing their support for entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainability and green transition. This Programme seeks to set a solid foundation for future partnerships to benefit impact startups as they seek to expand their growth, reach and overall impact.
Successful applicants to the Programme will benefit from the following:
- Growth from the exchange of experience with an international community of peers
- Opportunity to learn new insights from impact entrepreneurship and innovation forefront, including practical cases, tools and frameworks
- First-hand experience of the impact entrepreneurship community in Stockholm
- Opportunity to build long-term relations with Swedish foreign missions and impact entrepreneurs.
Interested applicants must meet the following requirements to apply:
- Be a citizen and resident of one of the 22 programme countries
- Work in an organization or business systematically working to nurture and grow entrepreneurs.
- Have the mandate to develop new international partnerships for your organization/business.
- Have an excellent working knowledge of both written and spoken English.
- Be willing to actively participate, provide support and share their experience and knowledge with other participants.
- Have identified opportunities and challenges that could be worked on during the Programme to help their organization improve its contribution to the local entrepreneurship ecosystem
The applicant’s local organization or business must also meet the following criteria:
- Be locally owned and based in one of the programme countries.
- Be somehow hosting/coaching (or be in the process of starting up hosting/coaching of) entrepreneurs with business ideas that are related to sustainability and green transition.
- Run the organization/business, focusing on contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Apply before 31 May 2024 using this link: Application form.
Are you a Rwandan early stage startup in the circular economy? Apply for funding and business development support from the AfriCircular Innovators Programme before 26 May 2024
Are you a Rwandan early stage startup in the circular economy? Apply for funding and business development support from the AfriCircular Innovators Programme before 26 May 2024
The African Development Bank, under their Africa Circular Economy Facility (ACEF), in partnership with the African Circular Economy Alliance (ACEA) and Impact Hub Kigali, invite applicants from Rwanda, Ghana, and Ivory Coast for the AfriCircular Innovators Programme.
Through this programme, successful participants will benefit from the following:
- Access to customized training sessions, masterclasses and workshops covering a diverse range of topics tailored to meet the needs of each venture
- Access to personal coaching sessions for each entrepreneur to offer guidance on applying program insights effectively and maintain focus on circular solutions development
- Access to peer-to-peer learning platforms to exchange experiences, address challenges, and explore collaborative ventures with peers across different hubs
- Access to facilitated market linkages and industry connections including circular market places, investor roundtables, entrepreneurial showcases, business tours, and expert panel discussions
- Access to grant funding for market exploration and product development
- Access to demo day event and road show for 10 selected entrepreneurs
This programme innovative startups who are the early stage of their entrepreneurial journey with thematic solutions that fall under the five big bets as defined by ACEA including food systems, packaging, electronics, fashion and textiles, and built environment. Interested participants should be based in either Rwanda, Ghana or Ivory Coast, and have an African founder or majority of the management team being African.
To learn more about the programme and the evaluation process, visit: AfriCircular Innovators Programme. To apply, visit Application form