British Council SoCreative Africa Learning Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are invited for the British Council SoCreative Africa Learning Programme 2025. The SoCreative Africa studying programme for aspiring and early-stage younger African entrepreneurs is targeted on entrepreneurship and delivers a group of free on-line programs for the subsequent era of African leaders to help them by way of their work trip.

The programme is developed to help the British Council’s wider Creative Economy strand, designed to assist develop an ecosystem by which younger entrepreneurs can thrive.

Programme Modules

Creative Entrepreneurship

• Basic: Understanding the Creative Economy (Including what sectors represent the Creative Economy, the financial, social and cultural worth of the Creative Industries) utilizing related case research and knowledge to assist understanding).
  • Course 1: Intro to African Creative Economy
  • Course 2: Bringing Your Idea to Life
  • Course 3: Finding the Right People
  • Course 4: Building Your Business
  • Course 5: Branding and Marketing your Business
• Intermediate: With the fundamental course as a really helpful pre-requisite, the intermediate course will present extra depth to fundamental programs and contains the next:
  • Course 1: Your Entrepreneurship Strategy
  • Course 2: Personal and Business Growth Strategies
  • Course 3: Protecting My Business
  • Course 4: Finance For Creative Business
  • Course 5: Building and Leading Teams
  • Course 6: Raising Capital for My Business
  • Course 7: Promoting and Pitching My Business

Social Impact by way of Creative Entrepreneurship

Provide contributors with an understanding of affect entrepreneurship, social innovation and components to contemplate in pivoting enterprises to realize social affect.

• Topic 1: Introduction to ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’
• Topic 2: Introduction to Impact Economy – balancing revenue with affect
• Topic 3: Understanding Social Innovation (together with Human Centered Design)
• Topic 4: Factors to contemplate in pivoting your enterprise to realize social affect
• Topic 5: Impact Entrepreneurship of the twenty first Century: The position of know-how
• Topic 6: Inclusion, Sustainability and Values and Ethics
• Topic 7: Types of financing for Impact Enterprises and the right way to appeal to them

Creative Economy Policy

This intermediate course supplies related perception for coverage stakeholders in relation to the artistic financial system.

• Topic 1: Refresher on Introduction to Policy Making
• Topic 2: Understanding the Creative Economy
• Topic 3: The position of artistic financial system in sustainable improvement
• Topic 4: Approaches to Creative Economy Policy
• Topic 5: Steps to contemplate for the event or strengthening of the artistic financial system

Benefits

• Upon finishing the programme, contributors will obtain a certificates as proof of their achievement. The certificates will make you eligible to apply for sustained help by way of mentoring, teaching, incubation and acceleration by way of their wider work in collaborating nations.

Eligibility

• Open to aspiring and early-stage younger African entrepreneurs.
• Learning is self-paced however candidates have to be accessible to finish the programme.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to SoCreative Africa Learning Programme.