UNDP Creatives4Peace Youth Online Innovation Challenge 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 2, 2026

Applications are open for the UNDP Creatives4Peace Youth Online Innovation Challenge 2026. The problem goals to help younger Africans who’re utilizing tradition and creativity as instruments to advertise social cohesion, dialogue, and peacebuilding. Creatives4Peace welcomes submissions from younger creatives throughout Africa whose inventive work demonstrates how tradition and inventive expression can bridge divides, foster tolerance, and contribute to extra inclusive and peaceable societies.

Submissions might take any inventive kind, so long as it may be shared digitally/on-line. Selected individuals will obtain visibility and help, in addition to the OPPORTUNITY to showcase their work on the Culture and Creative Industries Festival in Cameroon.

Benefits

Three chosen candidates will obtain a notification to current their work on the Culture and Creative Industries Forum in Cameroon (flights + DSA lined by UNDP) in September, together with:

• The alternative to pitch their work to personal sector companions for potential collaboration or funding.
• The probability to community with fellow younger creatives from throughout the continent and diaspora, achieve visibility and alternatives for additional help their work.

Eligibility

• Open to younger African creatives.
• Performing Arts: Projects centered on stay or recorded inventive expression, together with music, quick movies, dance, theater, spoken phrase, poetry, storytelling, and efficiency-based mostly productions.
• Gaming: Projects involving digital or bodily video games, board video games, cell video games, video video games, simulations, puzzles, interactive studying instruments, and gamified experiences.
• Digital Art: Projects utilizing digital applied sciences to create visible, audiovisual, or interactive content material, together with graphic design, illustration, animation, images, videography, digital storytelling, and multimedia manufacturing.
• Fashion: Projects involving clothes, textiles, equipment, wearable design, costume design, sustainable style, upcycling, or style-associated artistic enterprises.
• Craft and Artisan: Projects centered on handmade merchandise, conventional/indigenous craftsmanship, artisan manufacturing, portray, design, woodworking, ceramics, jewellery, weaving, textiles, and different types of artistic making.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Creatives4Peace Youth Online Innovation Challenge.