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Announcing the Finalists for Creative Entrepreneurship Program in Africa
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Launched in 2019, Afrique Créative is an incubation program to support cultural and creative entrepreneurship in Africa. Covering everything from fashion and the visual arts to the media, the program is open to entrepreneurs across a range of creative sectors and aims to help them drive change in their respective fields. The finalists for the latest program have just been announced.
Thirty candidates were selected in January and supported for several months. Of the proposals submitted, 15 winners have now been selected to join the second phase of the Afrique Créative program.
For the next 12 months, they will benefit from high-quality technical, creative and financial support. They will be supported by expert mentors and “incubators” to help them scale up their activities.
Further reading: “Cultural and Creative Industries Promote Employment and Social Cohesion”
Each “incubatee” will benefit from the following program:
- Business coaching sessions by local incubators
- E-learning training for the entire cohort
- Bootcamp 1 on entrepreneurial structuring and consolidating the economic model
- Bootcamp 2 on scaling up and preparing for fundraising
- Individual coaching by creative mentors
- Mentoring from an investor with support in fundraising
- Financial support (between €30,000 and €60,000)
- Consult the list of the 15 finalists here!