Deadline: 17-Jun-23
Applications are now open for the Orange Corners Incubation Progamme for Entrepreneurs to develop and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Nigeria.
This ecosystem should enable youth to develop their business concept and become successful entrepreneurs, by providing them with the necessary opportunities, skills and access to markets.
Through Orange Corners they provide young entrepreneurs with a 6-month incubation progamme. At the same time, Orange Corners serves as a bridge between these innovative entrepreneurs and the private sector. This offers a great benefit to all partners involved. Orange Corners is an initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in collaboration with a local service provider.
What are the benefits of this programme for you?
- The programme will be delivered in-person and virtually due to the development of the pandemic.
- This program will not only provide the foundational entrepreneurial knowledge, tools and resources needed to transform an idea into a business but will also make available the networks and support needed for sustainable growth of the business.
- There is a variety of benefits the programme will offer you of which the most important ones are:
- Enterprise Management Training
- Business Incubation & Advisory Services
- Funding for prototype development & testing
What Orange Corners can offer you?
- Skills development
- Collective and individual workshops on the stages of the creation of social enterprises
- Coaching and mentoring
- Personal development week, collective workshops in soft skills, mentoring
- Personalised follow-up
- Advisory board (strategic committee), collective
- Events and networking
- Professional meetings, events organised by incubatees
- Accommodation and domiciliation
- Access to the incubator space, reduced price for commercial domiciliation
What are the selection criteria?
- In order to meet the selection criteria you must be:
- Be an aspiring entrepreneurs from Lagos, Nigeria
- Be between 18-35 years old
- Have a validated innovative business concept, not more than <2 years old
- The product or service responds to a local challenge in Nigeria
- The product or service relates to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Budding entrepreneurs will be selected based on the:
- Innovativeness
- Feasibility
- Social Impact
- Clarity of Market
- Sustainability & Scalability of the business idea
- Competence of the entrepreneur/team.
For more information, visit Orange Corners Incubation Progamme for Entrepreneurs.
