UNITAR Entrepreneurship and Food Security Training 2025 for Young Innovators in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon – YOA

Deadline: June 20, 2025

Applications are open for the UNITAR Entrepreneurship and Food Security Training 2025 for Young Innovators in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon. Aspiring entrepreneurs and agribusiness innovators in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon are invited to apply to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) RISE LAB Igniting Youth Potential in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon by way of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Resilience. This programme will equip younger entrepreneurs and innovators with the information, expertise and attitudes to remodel their concepts into companies or develop and scale their present enterprise.

Supported by the Government and folks of Japan, the programme is open to 500 motivated and certified younger people aged 18–40 from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon who’ve both an present enterprise or a concrete thought that may be developed into one which goals to boost meals safety and develop the non-public sector.  

By the top of the programme, contributors can have a launch-prepared blueprint for their new companies or be able to pitch their present companies for progress. Participants may even construct lifelong connections with fellow youth entrepreneurs in their nation and past. 

The programme is scheduled to run from May 2025 to March 2026 in three phases. The first two phases will probably be held on-line, combining self-paced classes, dialogue boards, webinars and lectures by subject material specialists with each regional and world publicity. The third will probably be an in-person workshop, location to be confirmed, bringing collectively prime-performing contributors to characterize every nation. This section is geared in direction of experiential studying, peer-to-peer networking, mentorship and study excursions.

Benefits

By the top of the programme, contributors will be capable to apply the next expertise: 

Economic and Employment-Related Skills

• Use entrepreneurial methodologies, instruments and greatest practices to develop options for meals safety challenges and introduce modern ideas.
• Identify different sources of employment and alternatives for livelihood throughout financial downturns and durations of meals shortage.
• Apply strategic administration and innovation methods and instruments to their tasks/initiatives.
• Evaluate worth chains to pinpoint key areas to deal with meals insecurity, contemplating their anticipated outcomes, useful resource utilization and affect on different public well being, financial and gender equality points. 

Technical and Innovation Skills

• Identify applicable technological improvements, together with local weather-resilient agricultural and aquacultural practices and makes use of of digital applied sciences, together with AI, to beat environmental obstacles, bolster group resilience and deal with meals insecurity.

Collaboration and Partnership Skills

• Establish and maintain public-non-public partnerships and facilitate connections between grassroots/smallholder farmers and native/regional markets, enabling entry to: Local, regional and world provide chains.

Eligibility

• Open to ladies and youth in Egypt, Iraq or Lebanon.
• Age: 18-40.
• Entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators, and current graduates.
• Those who’ve an present enterprise and want to purchase extra information to scale their operations.
• Those who would not have an present enterprise however have a concrete thought that may be developed right into a enterprise.

Women and males from deprived backgrounds and concerned in agribusiness are particularly inspired to apply.

Application

Deadline for purposes is 20 June 2025 (midnight, UTC+3). 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to UNITAR Rise Lab Enterprise.