AU-EU Youth Action Lab Grant 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 23, 2026

Applications are open for the AU-EU Youth Action Lab Grant 2026. The AU-EU Youth Action Lab affords funding for youth-led initiatives in Africa and Europe. If you’ve got an thought or undertaking that helps sort out international challenges in your individual context, you possibly can apply for funding and produce your concepts and options to life!

They consider within the energy of younger folks working collectively throughout Africa and Europe. The AU-EU Youth Action Lab connects youth initiatives with their friends to share concepts, study from one another, and collaborate. It additionally creates alternatives for younger folks to carry their voices and options to choice-makers, together with the European Union and African Union!

The Youth Action Lab has 2 completely different grant varieties accessible for its ultimate Call for Proposals:

• Innovation Grants: The vitality and concepts of younger folks around the globe drives options and helps to create alternatives to key challenges in communities and past. The Innovation Grants goal to supply assist to youth organizations that search to innovate in their very own context in response to a worldwide problem.
• Entrepreneurship Grants: The Entrepreneurship Grants goal to supply assist to youth actors that work on strengthening the financial alternatives for younger folks.

Grants

• The Innovation Grants present grant alternatives of 42,000 EURO to which particular person youth-led organisations can apply.
• The Entrepreneurship Grants present grants alternatives for 31,500 EURO to which particular person youth-led organisations can apply.

Eligibility

Innovation Grants

• Your organisation have to be a non-revenue, working as a Trust, Community Based Organisation (CBO) or as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)/Civil Society Organisation (CSO) with a transparent social mission.
• Your organisation have to be youth-led: younger folks (aged 18-35) characterize the organisation’s governance and have major choice-making energy over the organisation’s route and programmes (100% is aged 18-35) and are instantly concerned in designing and finishing up actions (>80% is aged 18-35)
• Your undertaking have to be youth-led: all workers (100%) engaged on implementing the undertaking needs to be younger folks (aged 18-35)
• You are a youth organisation that’s formal: you’re legally registered in your nation, have an organisation checking account and a transparent governance construction.
• You are positioned and registered in one of many 12 African Youth Action Lab focus international locations: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland area), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Your proposed exercise takes place in a number of of the above 12 international locations.

Entrepreneurship Grants

• Your organisation have to be a non-revenue, working as a Trust, Community Based Organisation (CBO), or as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)/Civil Society Organisation(CSO) or Cooperative with a transparent social/environmental mission. The social enterprise exercise exists to maintain and advance that mission, not as a aspect enterprise.
• Your organisation have to be youth-led: younger folks (aged 18-35) characterize the organisation’s governance and have major choice-making energy over the organisation’s route and programmes (100% is aged 18-35) and are instantly concerned in designing and finishing up actions (>80% is aged 18-35)
• Your undertaking should youth-led: all workers (100%) engaged on implementing the undertaking needs to be younger folks (aged 18-35)
• Your organisation is formally registered in your nation, has an organisation checking account, a transparent governance construction and has been working for at the least 12 months.
• You are positioned and registered in one of many 12 African Youth Action Lab focus international locations: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland area), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Your proposed actions happen in a number of of the above 12 international locations.

Application

For extra info, go to AU-EU Youth Action Lab Grant.