Call for Application – wAtt-boost: Youth Powered Start Up in Africa [2nd edition] – YOA

Deadline: June 21, 2026

Applications are invited for the second cohort of the wAtt-enhance: Youth Powered Start Up in Africa. Africa’s path to a sustainable and affluent future hinges on the modern concepts of its youth. By empowering younger skills, innovators, entrepreneurs, and begin-ups, we will flip the deployment of renewables, common entry to power and the power transition at giant right into a actuality.

To obtain this imaginative and prescient, with the in-kind contribution of RES4Africa Foundation (R4A), and Strathmore University, Enel Foundation is launching the Open Call for the second version of wAtt-enhance: Youth Powered Start Up in Africa. This initiative presents a tailor-made coaching program for startups and entrepreneurs in the renewable power sector in Africa.

wAtt-enhance goals to nurture and broaden renewable power-centered companies inside Africa’s startup ecosystem. They assist each rising and established entrepreneurs in the African renewable power sector, serving to them develop and develop their enterprises.

The Training consists of two modules:

• Specific lectures from the NewGen Renewable Energy Accelerator, a program owned and carried out by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) with the assist of EF, scheduled between June and July 2026;
• An advert-hoc coaching module run by RES4Africa addressing the peculiarities of the evolving African electrical energy markets.

Benefits

• As a key element of the wAtt-enhance program, members could have the likelihood to compete for two awards of 10,000 Euros every. This devoted fund is designed to offer essential monetary assist to essentially the most promising entrepreneurs and startups that display important potential and progress prospects by the conclusion of this system.

Eligibility

• Entrepreneurs have to be between 18 and 35 years previous;
• The answer ought to deal with the African market;
• Ownership: both the entrepreneur should possess African citizenship or the startup have to be registered in Africa;
• The startup have to be registered for a minimum of 1 yr and function in the renewable power and electrification realm (among the many others, potential domains could embrace, however are usually not restricted to, synthetic intelligence (AI), grids and infrastructure, local weather adaptation and mitigation, clear cooking, electrical mobility, agrivoltaics,…);
• The entrepreneur should have proficiency in English, demonstrated by both being a local speaker, holding a CAE (Certificate in Advanced English), or having a level fully taught in English.

Application

The deadline for the submission of the application type is June 21, 2026 – 23:59 Central European Time. Any application acquired after the deadline might be mechanically rejected.

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For extra info, go to wAtt-boost: Youth Powered Start Up in Africa.