Koola Kampala Business Incubation Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 5, 2025

Applications are open for the Koola Kampala Business Incubation Programme 2025. This is a enterprise incubation programme for cultural and inventive entrepreneurs based mostly in Kampala which shall be carried out collectively with The Bold Woman Fund.

This programme aligns with the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the Sustainable Development Goals, and nationwide insurance policies on tradition and the humanities, the programme goals to empower younger Ugandan cultural entrepreneurs by means of structured enterprise assist, mentorship, and expertise improvement. The program will run for 12 months, beginning in July 2025.

Benefits

Participants will graduate with:

• Reinforced enterprise fashions
• Deepened entrepreneurial expertise
• Strategic steerage to construct sustainable, resilient enterprises
• Access to nationwide and worldwide knowledgeable assist
• The OPPORTUNITY to apply for seed funding to assist enterprise progress and implementation of motion plans shall be out there solely to candidates with registered companies

Eligibility

They are in search of legally registered cultural or inventive companies based mostly in Kampala that:​

• Have a legally registered cultural or inventive companies for at the very least one yr;
• Be based mostly in Kampala;
• Be above the age of 18;
• Have samples out there upon request;
• Already producing income (not solely grant-dependent);
• Benefit from strengthening in enterprise administration and progress methods.

Selection Process

• The choice course of will concentrate on candidates’ motivation and why they really feel they might profit from strengthening in enterprise administration and progress methods.
• 15-20 companies shall be shortlisted for the pre-incubation part of the programme, the place they may obtain tailor-made group and particular person teaching. After this part, 12 finalists shall be chosen for the principle incubation programme.

Application

Interested candidates can apply by way of the online application form. Applications are open till July 5, 6pm (Kampala time).

For extra info, go to Koola Kampala.