Call for Memberships at Young Innovators Forum: Promoting Creative and Innovative Ideas, Deadline: 20 July 2017

Call for Memberships at Young Innovators Forum: Promoting Creative and Innovative Ideas

Deadline: 20 July 2017

Young Innovators Forum has started accepting applications for membership for 2017 Academic Session that is a platform where students around the South-East Region meet to sharpen their innovative skills and tackle global and social challenges for sustainable development in Nigeria.

The goal of this programme is to bring Nigerian youths together annually to think critically, creatively and innovatively in order to develop multiple innovative concepts that will help transform the nation. The program envisions to empower the youths to be more productive, creative, industrious, focused and more determined to succeed while in school and or after school.

Aims and Objectives

• To train, empower and build future young innovators and entrepreneurs through an annually organized workshop.
• To give moral and academic training and support to the youths through empowerment programmes.
• To ensure good leadership, and focus on innovation through science and technology.
• To empower young people to build a vision for their future.
• To promote a culture of Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship in the university.
• To raise more innovators and creative avenue for students to showcase their skills and talent.

Program Activities

• Design thinking
• Innovation and Creativity
• Talent Development Programme
• Train the trainer

Benefits

• Opportunity to learn new skills, experience and knowledge.
• Opportunity to attend both conferences and workshops.
• Opportunity to meet new innovators and entrepreneurs.

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates must be between the age 16 – 30 years old.
• Candidates must be residence within Africa continent.
• Candidates must be ready to volunteer and travel across Africa.
• Candidates must have an evidence of identification.
• Candidates must have a functionable email.
• Candidates must be undergraduate or postgraduate students in recognized institution across Africa

Eligible Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cote d’Ivorie, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

For more information, please visit Young Innovators Forum.