The $500,000 MedTech Innovator Accelerator offers a transformative opportunity for early- to mid-stage medical device, diagnostic and digital health companies around the world.
- 2025, Accelerator Program, Central Africa, December, Digital, East Africa, Health, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
The €10,000 Circular Business Awards by the EU CERC are an annual recognition targeted at enterprises in countries eligible for ODA support, as part of the annual Circular Awards by the EU CERC which also includes a separate Policy Implementation Award.
- 2026, Central Africa, Circular Economy, Digital, East Africa, January, North Africa, Southern Africa, Tech, West Africa, Youth
The Mercy Corps Ventures has launched its $50,000 AI for Financial Resilience Program to leverage emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain to expand financial inclusion, build climate resilience, and strengthen economic stability for unbanked and underbanked populations across emerging markets.
- 2025, Central Africa, December, Digital, East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
View 10 upcoming creative and media opportunities closing between November 2025 and January 2026 — with over $500,000 in grants and prizes.
- 2025, 2026, Artists, Central Africa, Creative Industry, Cultural Organizations, December, East Africa, Filmmaking, January, North Africa, November, Photography, Southern Africa, West Africa, Writing
The €30,000 Création Africa is a groundbreaking initiative by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, coordinated by the Embassy of France and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), aimed at boosting and supporting cultural entrepreneurship in South Africa, Lesotho, and Malawi.
- 2025, Creative Industry, Cultural Organizations, December, Malawi, Southern Africa
Explore $7 Million in Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes for Innovators, Researchers, and Entrepreneurs — Closing from November 11–25, 2025
- 2025, Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, November, Southern Africa, West Africa
The challenge seeks to develop an innovative and affordable solution that accurately tracks enrolment, retention, and learning of out-of-school children in Ghana.
- 2025, Education, Ghana, November, Tech
The AED500,000 Innovate For Tomorrow Impact Accelerator 2025, Dubai Holding’s flagship scale-up programme, is designed to empower innovators to unlock a better and more sustainable future through circular economy innovation across the UAE’s most vital sectors.
- 2025, Central Africa, Circular Economy, East Africa, North Africa, November, Southern Africa, West Africa
This $250,000 challenge seeks applications for the development of vaginal formulations that promote optimal drug delivery within the vaginal compartment while supporting the vaginal milieu and offering desirable user benefits.
- 2025, December, Health, South Africa, Southern Africa
The Gates Foundation is soliciting applications that contribute to development of vaginal formulations that promote optimal drug delivery within the vaginal compartment while positively supporting the vaginal milieu, and that also possess beneficial effects, even if unrelated to the API intended effect, that a user might consider desirable, such as enhancement of sexual pleasure.
- 2025, Academic Institutions, Central Africa, December, East Africa, Health, Health Care, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa