Art4Change Storytelling Fellowship 2026 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: May 29, 2026

Applications are open for the Art4Change Storytelling Fellowship 2026. Young persons are on the centre of innovation throughout Africa, Europe, and the diaspora. From digital platforms and artistic industries to grassroots group options, younger persons are creating new concepts, instruments, and approaches that reply to each native realities and world challenges. Yet many of those tales stay underreported or are shared solely inside restricted areas.

The Art4Change Storytelling Fellowship seeks to handle this hole by supporting younger creatives to doc and share these experiences by means of their very own views. By taking part within the fellowship, candidates have the OPPORTUNITY to construct their abilities and produce visibility to tales that may in any other case go unheard.

Fellowship Details

The Art4Change Storytelling Fellowship is a six-month programme operating from June to December 2026 organised by the Africa-Europe Innovation Platform (AEIP) and carried out by The African Youth Café (TYC). It will convey collectively younger creatives from Africa, Europe, and the diaspora to discover and doc youth innovation.

Through writing, pictures, video, audio, and digital storytelling, fellows will seize actual tales of how younger persons are creating, testing, and making use of progressive concepts of their communities. All chosen fellows will publish their work on a devoted weblog and digital platform hosted by the challenge, making certain that their tales are accessible to wider audiences.

Over the six months, chosen fellows will:

• Participate in structured on-line coaching periods on digital storytelling, together with writing, pictures, video manufacturing, and content material planning
• Receive mentorship and editorial assist from skilled practitioners all through the programme
• Develop and publish tales on youth innovation based mostly on actual-life experiences and discipline engagement
• Work with friends from completely different areas to alternate concepts and approaches to storytelling
• Contribute repeatedly to a shared digital platform that includes their printed work

The fellowship is designed as a sensible, studying-by-doing programme, the place fellows construct worthwhile abilities whereas actively contributing to a wider dialog on youth innovation. At its core, the fellowship explores how younger folks innovate: how new concepts and options are developed and examined. It appears to be like at engagement with begin-ups, hubs and digital platform, but in addition on the on a regular basis realities behind innovation – navigating challenges to show concepts into sensible outcomes. Participants are inspired to doc tales from their very own environments, together with innovators, initiatives, and experiences that replicate how innovation is occurring on the bottom.

By the tip of the fellowship, members can have produced:

• A sequence of printed digital tales (articles, movies, photograph essays, or multimedia content material)
• Documented digital case research of youth innovation from completely different contexts
• A shared on-line archive of youth-led innovation tales
• Contributions to a rising physique of information on how younger folks have interaction with innovation throughout areas

Benefits

Selected fellows will obtain:

• Structured coaching in digital storytelling and content material creation
• Continuous mentorship and editorial steerage
• A stipend to assist content material manufacturing prices reminiscent of transport, knowledge, and primary fieldwork wants
• Access to a platform for publishing and showcasing their work

Eligibility

They are searching for younger creatives who’re:

• Aged 18–35
• Based in Africa, Europe, or the diaspora
• Interested in storytelling, media, or digital content material creation
• Passionate about documenting youth innovation and group options
• Able to decide to a six-month programme of coaching and content material manufacturing

Application

Interested candidates are invited to finish the web application kind and submit their particulars, expertise, and a brief story proposal.

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For extra info, go to Art4Change Storytelling Fellowship.