UNDP Africa Pan-African MineTech Exploration Technology Pre-Incubation Programme 2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 16, 2026

Applications are open for the UNDP Africa Pan-African MineTech Exploration Technology Pre-Incubation Programme 2027. The timbuktoo MineTech Hub, along with the United Nations Development Programme and ecosystem companions throughout Botswana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe, invites college students, graduates, researchers, engineers, innovators, technical professionals and early-stage entrepreneurs to show actual world mining and mineral exploration challenges into sensible know-how options.

You don’t want a completed product or a longtime firm. A clearly outlined concept or resolution for the way know-how can be utilized to resolve for the problem briefs shared by the varied UniPods is sufficient to apply. 

Benefits

• Technical mentorship from consultants, universities, geological establishments and mining sector practitioners.
• Industry engagement and validation to check whether or not your resolution meets real consumer wants.
• Prototype improvement help by way of UniPods, MineTech Hub amenities and related innovation infrastructure.
• Entrepreneurship and enterprise readiness help, together with enterprise fashions, market validation and routes to commercialisation.
• Networking with mining stakeholders, researchers, know-how consultants, buyers and innovation organisations.

Selected groups can also compete for seed funding to construct low constancy prototypes and proof of idea options, and excessive potential groups could progress to MineTech Hub incubation.

Eligibility

Multidisciplinary groups of two to five members, all aged 18 to 35, and all based mostly in the identical nation, which should be Botswana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia or Zimbabwe, so the crew can work collectively on the devoted UniPod. Your crew ought to:

• Be made up of scholars, current graduates, researchers, engineers, technical professionals, innovators or early-stage entrepreneurs.
• Bring complementary expertise throughout not less than two related disciplines, together with technical experience reminiscent of Computer Science, Data Science, Mining Engineering, Geomatics or Software Engineering and different comparable disciplines.
• Have a clearly recognized drawback in mineral exploration, mining or associated environmental or operational actions, and an preliminary know-how-based mostly concept to deal with it.
• Define the function of every crew member and decide to the programme all through.
• Provide a sound nationwide ID for every crew member.
• Female candidates are strongly inspired to apply.

Application

Ready to show a mining problem right into a know-how resolution? Apply earlier than 16 October 2026.

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For extra info, go to UNDP Africa.