Call for Applications

Deadline: January 15, 2014 Each year, the WISE Awards  recognize six successful  innovative projects that are  addressing global educational  challenges.  WISE brings to light these educational models for  their positive contribution …

Deadline: January 17 2014 The Global Change Leaders Program is a seven-week education program offered by Coady Institute’s International Centre for Women’s Leadership.  This program enables women from developing countries …

Application Deadline: November 8 2013 Making All Voices Count: A Grand Challenge for Development is a global initiative that supports  innovation, scaling-up and research to deepen existing innovations and help …

Deadline: 15 January 2014 The Global Diversity Foundation hereby announces the GESA2014–  the fourth Global Environments  Summer Academy, held in collaboration with the Centre for Development and Environment of  the University …

Application Deadline: 5th November 2013 The African Digital Woman Award seeks to recognise a woman*, 18 years of age or older, who have distinguished herself through leadership, creativity, entrepreneurship, social-focus and/or innovative …

Deadline: 21 February 2014 The Sylt Foundation hereby call on writers of contemporary African literature to apply for the two month African Writer’s Residency Award. The African Writer’s Residency offers …

Deadline: November 30, 2013 D-Prize is a call to the world’s brightest social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Submit your idea to start a new distribution initiative in one of the challenge areas below. If selected, …

Deadline: December 31st 2013 The Global Fund for Women invests in women’s groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. The Global fund for Women strengthen women-led groups …

Deadline: December 20 2013 Since 2007 Teach a Man to Fish in partnership with The Saville Foundation have been rewarding organisations that contribute to Africa’s long term growth and development through an entrepreneurial approach …

Application Deadline:November 8, 2013 Date: November 15, 2013 – December 26, 2013 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is offering a six-week online course on covering conflict: challenges, opportunities and best practices for …

Application Deadline: The First Application Round: November 14th. The Second Application Round : December 15th. What:  World Business Dialogue 2014 Where: University of Cologne , Germany When:    March 12-13 2014 Whom:  It …

Nomination Deadline: December 2nd 2013 Top35-Under35CEO Awards aims to encourage and promote entrepreneurship amongst young Africans. Annually, the programme will highlight and provide recognition to 9 young entrepreneurs under the …

Application Deadline:  November 15, 2013 What Injaz Egypt is a member nation of Junior Achievement Worldwide and Young Enterprise Europe; the world’s largest and fastest growing organization specializing in economic education. …

Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google’s online advertising tool. Google Ad Grants empowers nonprofit organisations, through $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords™ advertising, to promote their missions …

Application Deadline: October 29 2013 The Commonwealth Foundation grants programme contributes to sustainable development in the context of effective, responsive and accountable governance with civil society participation. The programme brokers …

Application Deadline: November 15 2013 The Norbert Zongo investigative journalism Prize is an award of excellence established by the National Press Centre Norbert Zongo in memory of the famous journalist …

Deadline: October 15 2013 Global Forums in cooperation with Experis, Universum, NovaAgentum and Kulturtolk is proud to present the Global Talent Awards. The purpose of the awards is to inspire talents and organizations to be more …

Application Deadline: November 1 2013 She Entrepreneurs is a leadership programme for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden. The programme aims to give …

Application Deadline: October 18, 2013 Leap Africa in Partnership with Shell Nigeria brings to you the SNEPco Youth Empowerment Programme. Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability and Professionalism (LEAP) Africa is a non-profit organization committed …

Submission Deadline: October 13 2013 What: 5th Ewha Global Empowerment Program 2013 Winter  “Transnational Feminisms and Women’s Activism” When:  January 12 ~ 26, 2014 Where: Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. The Ewha Global Empowerment Program EGEP is …

Application Deadline: November 7th 2013 Unreasonable East Africa is dedicated to dedicated to tackling East Africa’s biggest problems by giving an “unfair advantage” to entrepreneurs creating solutions to East Africa’s biggest …

The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme promote the mobility of young artists in order to enrich their personal perspectives, to develop their creative project, enabling them to engage in a cultural …

Application deadline: 18 October 2013 The Deutsches Museum in Munich has several attractive scholarships to offer research scholars interested in working for six or 12 months on projects involving the museum`s …

The International Leader of Tomorrow Award recognizes international undergraduate students who demonstrate superior academic achievement, leadership skills, involvement in student affairs and community service, recognized achievement in fields of endeavour such as …

Application Deadline: October 12 2013 When: AMEND Summit – April 9-10 2014 The American Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue (AMENDS) is a student initiative at Stanford University that brings together …

Deadline: October 31st 2013 UNESCO MAB Young Scientists Awards: helping young people help the planet Since 1989 MAB has been providing 10 young researchers each year with awards of up …

Application Deadline: November 7 2013 Location: Boulder, COLORADO USA Institute Dates: May 30 – Jul 6, 2014 Each year, the unreasonble Institute unites 10-30 entrepreneurs (called “Unreasonable Fellows”) from every corner of the globe to …

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 2nd 2013 Call out for original stories from the city of Lagos for the Lagos Theatre Festival 2014 British Council Nigeria invites you to be part of …

Deadline: 17 October 2013, Thursday 5.00 pm Launched in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) is a corporate program, …

Application Deadline: October 15 2013 When December: 4-5 2013   Africa’s dynamism and sustainable development are driven in particular by innovators. Confidence in the future of that part of the …

Application Deadline: October 31st 2013 The Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) is a hub for global, innovation-based entrepreneurship in service to humanity. GSBI currently includes two distinct capacity development programs …

Application Deadline: September 22 2013 The “ChangemakerXchange” is a series of unique events and a global community for some of the world’s most inspiring young social entrepreneurs. We meet for …

Acumen Leadership Essentials is a 6-week course that will give you a taste of Acumen’s leadership training designed to build leaders who can help change the way the world tackles poverty …

  Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability and Professionalism (LEAP) Africa is a non-profit organization committed to developing dynamic, innovative and principled African leaders. Since 2002, through its core Youth Leadership Programme (YLP) …

Application Deadline: September 30 2013 The Prize aims to RECOGNIZE, ENCOURAGE, INSPIRE and REWARD women’s participation in the socio-economic development process. It aims to: a. Recognize the important role of …

Application Deadline: September 30 2013 Are you a young person living in Ghana between the ages of 15 and 20?  Are you passionate about effecting social change? Passion for Change is …

Deadline:11th November 2013 The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) aims to advance biodiversity conservation globally by building the leadership capabilities of early-career conservation professionals working in places with limited capacity to …

The Young African Research Arena (YARA) hereby  introduces The Repository, an online open access mini-library containing academic papers written by African students from across the continent. The Repository provides an …

Originally established in 2007 by the Legatum Group, the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship are now hosted by the African Leadership Network (ALN). ALN believes that the surest way for Africa …