Deadline: 19-Feb-25
Is your organisation or (social) enterprise passionate about young people taking control of their own future? If yes, then apply for the AU-EU Youth Lab’s Entrepreneurship Grants Program.
The Entrepreneurship Grants aim to provide support to youth actors that work on strengthening the economic opportunities for young people!
Focus Areas
- The entrepreneurship grants focus on youth-led actions that address a three-fold selection of key challenges young people face around the world in their economic participation and taking control of their own future:
- Access to skills development opportunities that are according to the needs of young people and local economic realities and support the start-up of new youth-led enterprises.
- The responsible growth of youth-led (social) enterprises that consider social and environmental boundaries.
- An enabling environment for young entrepreneurs to start and grow their business.
Benefits
- Your organisation will receive financial support to implement your skills development project with young people 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 Entrepreneurship 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:
- Develop, test and implement new skills development curriculum for young people
- For example: a new curriculum module that fills a distinct gap identified in advancing young people’s economic participation.
- Scale-up and existing skills development delivery to reach a wider diversity of young people
- For example: innovative methods to make skills development curriculums available to young people in remote areas.
- Nurturing the exchange and coordination between (youth-led) skills development providers, local businesses and/or government actors
- For example: Setting up learning exchanges between local businesses, young people and skills development providers.
- Develop, test and implement new skills development curriculum for young people
- The activities you propose can be a mixture of the broad types of activities above and do not need to ‘fit in one box’.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organisation or (social) enterprise is youth-led (age 18 to 35) where young people are the decision makers.
- In case of an enterprise, you are either registered as ‘social enterprise’ or ‘enterprise’. In case of the latter, you can showcase a clear social ambition and impact of the work of your company.
- You are a youth organisation or (social) enterprise that is formal: you are legally registered in your country, have an organisation/enterprise bank account and a 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.