The British Council’s SoCreative Africa learning programme 2025 for aspiring and early-stage young African entrepreneurs

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Application Deadline: Ongoing

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 British Council’s SoCreative Africa learning programme. The SoCreative Africa learning programme for aspiring and early-stage young African entrepreneurs is targeted on entrepreneurship and delivers a group of free on-line programs for the following era of African leaders to help them by means of their work trip. 

Upon finishing the programme, individuals will obtain a certificates as proof of their achievement. The certificates will make you eligible to apply for sustained help by means of mentoring, teaching, incubation and acceleration by means of our wider work in taking part nations.

The programme is developed to help the British Council’s wider Creative Economy strand, designed to assist develop an ecosystem wherein young 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 essential course as a advisable 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 means of Creative Entrepreneurship 

Provide individuals with an understanding of influence entrepreneurship, social innovation and elements to think about in pivoting enterprises to realize social influence

Topic 1: Introduction to ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’  
Topic 2: Introduction to Impact Economy – balancing revenue with influence  
Topic 3: Understanding Social Innovation (together with Human Centered Design)  
Topic 4: Factors to think about in pivoting your enterprise to realize social influence  
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 find out how to appeal to them

Creative Economy Policy

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

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

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the British Council’s SoCreative Africa learning programme.