Deadline: 19-Feb-25
Is your organisation eager to take your innovative solution to a global challenge to the next level? If, yes then apply now for Innovation Grants.
The Innovation Grants aim to provide support to youth organisations that seek to innovate in their own context in response to a global challenge!
They define innovation as designing, testing, scaling or improving a new or existing activity for young people in their own context with long-term impact. In other words, an impact that will benefit your community and your peers also after your grant project ends!
Focus Areas
- This call for proposals focuses on innovation:
- Developing new or improving existing activities with long-term impact.
- Implementing youth-driven solutions that benefit your community and peers.
- Scaling successful activities to share with other youth organizations.
What To Expect?
- Your organisation will receive financial support to implement your innovation in your own community and beyond
- Your organisation will become part of a platform for you to share your solution with peers, decision-makers and other stakeholders across Africa and Europe
- You will benefit from mentorship and other forms of capacity development support according to the needs of your organisation
Funding Information
- The Innovation Grants provide grants opportunities between 30.000 and 50.000 EURO for which individual youth organisations and consortiums of youth organisations can apply to.
Eligible Activities
- Your proposal can have a diversity of activities that build upon each other. They are excited to receive your ideas!
- As general guidance, they can identify three broad types of activities:
- Meaningful youth participation in decision-making
- For example: a new methodology for young people to monitor the commitment of decision-makers to increase access to quality education.
- Implementation of a youth-driven solution
- For example: implementation of a new climate resilience approach in each context.
- Sharing and scaling of a distinct activity with other youth organisations beyond their own context
- For example: development of an online learning product
- The activities you propose can be a mixture of the broad types of activities above and do not need to ‘fit in one box’.
- Meaningful youth participation in decision-making
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organisation is youth-led: young people (age 18 to 35) are the decision makers.
- You are a youth organisation that is formal: you are legally registered in your country, have an organisation bank account and a clear governance structure.
- You are located and registered in one of the 12 African Youth Action Lab focus countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Your proposed activity takes place in one or more of the above 12 countries.
- Your annual budget or grants managed in the past should be a minimum of 10.000 EURO.
For more information, visit AU-EU Youth Lab.
