TCKZone Youth Employability & Empowerment Fellowship (TYEEF) 2025 – YOA

Deadline: October 10, 2025

Applications are open for the TCKZone Youth Employability & Empowerment Fellowship (TYEEF) 2025. The TCKZone Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship Fellowship (TYEEF) is a 4-week intensive digital and entrepreneurship abilities coaching program designed to equip underserved youth in Nigeria with the competencies wanted to thrive within the digital economic system. Targeting youth aged 18–30, this system addresses the urgent problems with youth unemployment and lack of entry to sensible, market-related abilities.

Through a blended studying mannequin, TYEEF will present 40 chosen contributors with palms-on coaching in digital abilities (similar to digital advertising, content material creation, and freelancing), enterprise improvement, private branding, and smooth abilities. The program may even offer mentorship from skilled professionals, interactive masterclasses, and seed funding alternatives for excellent contributors.

By the top of this system, contributors could have developed earnings-producing tasks, improve their employability, and enhance their capability to launch or develop entrepreneurial ventures. The initiative contributes to nationwide and continental targets of lowering youth unemployment, fostering innovation, and empowering the following technology of African changemakers.

Benefits

• Training in digital advertising, content material creation, freelancing, AI & rising tech, cybersecurity
• Entrepreneurship & monetary literacy workshops
• Mentor assist (e.g. Damilola Oni and others)
• Masterclasses & interactive periods
• Portfolio constructing, internships, job placement alternatives (relying on qualification)
• Certificate of completion
• Chance to win a startup grant
• Networking & publicity

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be between 18 and 30 years previous on the time of application.
• Open to youth residing in Nigeria (and different African nations as this system expands).
• Open to Secondary faculty leavers, latest graduates, and out-of-faculty youth with restricted entry to alternatives.
• Must be obtainable to take part absolutely in all coaching, mentorship, and venture actions all through the fellowship interval.
• Must decide to getting a job or implementing an  entrepreneurship thought throughout or after the fellowship.
• Applicants from underserved, rural, or marginalized communities are strongly inspired to apply.
• The fellowship actively welcomes purposes from younger girls, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to TYEEF.