"Apply Now: SoCreative Africa Learning programme for young African entrepreneurs"

Application deadline: Ongoing

SoCreative Africa is a learning programme for young African entrepreneurs looking to take their business to the next level. It focuses on entrepreneurship and provides a range of free online courses designed to support the next generation of Africa’s leaders. Once you’ve completed the programme, you’ll receive a certificate as a testament to your success. This certificate will allow you to apply for ongoing support through mentoring and coaching, incubation, and acceleration through our work in the countries you’ve worked with. SoCreative Africa supports the wider Creative Economy strand of the British Council, which aims to create an ecosystem where young entrepreneurs can flourish. To learn more, Please visit their official website here.

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Programme Modules

Creative Entrepreneurship 

Basic 

Understanding the Creative Economy (Including what sectors constitute the Creative Economy, the economic, social and cultural value of the Creative Industries) using relevant case studies and data to aid understanding).

Course 1: Intro to African Creative Economy

Course 2: Bringing Your Idea to Life

Course 3: Finding the Right People 

Course 4: Building Your Business

Course 5: Branding and Marketing your Business

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Intermediate

With the basic course as a recommended pre-requisite, the intermediate course will provide additional depth to basic courses and includes the following: 

Course 1: Your Entrepreneurship Strategy  

Course 2: Personal and Business Growth Strategies  

Course 3: Protecting My Business  

Course 4: Finance For Creative Business  

Course 5: Building and Leading Teams  

Course 6: Raising Capital for My Business  

Course 7: Promoting and Pitching My Business 

Social Impact through Creative Entrepreneurship 

Provide participants with an understanding of impact entrepreneurship, social innovation and factors to consider in pivoting enterprises to achieve social impact

Topic 1: Introduction to ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’  

Topic 2: Introduction to Impact Economy – balancing profit with impact  

Topic 3: Understanding Social Innovation (including Human Centered Design)  

Topic 4: Factors to consider in pivoting your enterprise to achieve social impact  

Topic 5: Impact Entrepreneurship of the 21st Century: The role of technology  

Topic 6: Inclusion, Sustainability and Values and Ethics  

Topic 7: Types of financing for Impact Enterprises and how to attract them

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Creative Economy Policy

This intermediate course provides relevant insight for policy stakeholders in relation to the creative economy 

Topic 1: Refresher on Introduction to Policy Making  

Topic 2: Understanding the Creative Economy  

Topic 3: The role of creative economy in sustainable development  

Topic 4: Approaches to Creative Economy Policy  

Topic 5: Steps to consider for the development or strengthening of the creative economy

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