DW Akademie Kenya’s TrustLab Incubator Programme 2025-2026 (up to €5,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 24, 2025

Are you a media organisation primarily based in Nairobi or Nakuru? Are you prepared to combat again towards digital threats? Apply now for the third and remaining BeliefLab Incubator in Kenya, focussed on strengthening Media Defenders within the face of rising on-line harms.

BeliefLab is a 3-12 months EU-funded mission by DW Akademie, Code for Africa (CfA) and Siasa Place, designed to assist frontline organisations reply to digital threats with sensible, neighborhood-led options.

About the Incubator

The BeliefLab co-creation incubators are primarily based on the worldwide Living Lab mannequin, the place members are briefed on the character and extent of digital threats going through their audiences and communities, with an summary of potential counter-measures or mitigation methods. This varieties the premise for designing regionally related pilot tasks that frontline organisations can implement.

Through the programme, members will discover methods for frontline watchdog media to collaborate round shared infrastructure and companies wherever potential, to bolster their collective means to defend towards digital harms in methods which might be sustainable inside a useful resource-constrained setting.

The BeliefLab Incubator Programme offers a significant OPPORTUNITY for organisations to:

• Develop methods to fight digital hurt
• Foster neighborhood engagement and help
• Enhance their operational capabilities via coaching and mentorship

Programme Phases

• Phase A: 1 to 5 December 2025 (Nairobi): Face-to-workshop. Learn from technical consultants about present digital threats in Kenya (corresponding to surveillance, info manipulation and malicious AI), present instruments and companies to detect and counter them, in addition to methods to collect arms-on expertise from the communities you serve.
• Phase B and C: 26 to 30 January 2026 (Nairobi): Ideation and prototyping workshop to help organisations in growing their tasks, adopted by on-line mentorship.
• Phase D: anticipated March until August 2026 (on-line): Prototype grants awarded for probably the most possible and compelling concepts, together with technical help and strategic peer-mentorship.

Selected organisations are anticipated to take part in all periods in Phases A to C, so as to qualify for funding in Phase D.

Benefits

• grant award of up to €5,000 to implement your mission.
• Training and mentorship from area consultants; entry to instruments
• Travel and lodging for the workshops can be lined.

Eligibility

Eligible candidates should:

• Not work for any paramilitary or safety organisation and have to be non-partisan.
• Be registered with the related authorities in Kenya.
• Have expert and accessible employees who’re dedicated to taking part within the interval agreed upon.
• Maintain a powerful connection to the communities they serve
• Be dedicated to countering digital threats corresponding to surveillance, intimidation, hate speech and misinformation.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to DW Akademie Kenya’s TrustLab Incubator.