1. Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) Program 2025-2026.
The Japan Africa Dream Scholarship (JADS) is a capacity building program by the African Development Bank and the Government of Japan. The overarching goal of the African Development Bank and the Government of Japan is to enhance human resources capacity in Africa, in keeping with the Bank’s High 5 strategic priorities, namely Feed Africa, Light up and power Africa, Industrialize Africa, Integrate Africa, and Improve the quality of life of the people of Africa.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified
2. Mastercard Foundation/ Arizona State University Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2026-2027.
The Mastercard Foundation, in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU), will provide graduate scholarships to train 120 young African professionals at the master’s level for various programs over 5 years (2025 – 2030).
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 14
3. International Project Grants 2026.
AAUW’s International Project Grants foster lasting impact by supporting International Fellowship alumnae who return to their home countries to lead community-based initiatives. These grants empower alumnae to apply their academic expertise and leadership skills to projects that advance gender equity and improve the lives of women and girls.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 30
4. Stanley 1913 Creators Fund 2025.
Stanley Creators Fund offers grants up to $50,000 to support leaders working at the intersection of humanity, sustainability and possibility. The grant recipients represent a dynamic group of emerging creators, builders and inventors who reflect the many communities they serve and bring optimism for a better future through their work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 19
5. Canadian Food Innovation Network Innovation Scouting Fund 2025.
The Innovation Scouting Fund seeks to directly address real-world business challenges identified by leading Canadian food manufacturers, distributors, foodservice, or grocery retail firms. Each call is sponsored by one of these potential technology adopters and invites Canadian Small or Medium Enterprises and academic researchers to apply with their solutions for consideration and further validation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 30
6. Poker Power x IFW “Power Play” Small Business Grant 2025.
IFW has teamed up with Poker Power to launch an unprecedented $100,000 grant to fuel one entrepreneur who is ready to bet on their instincts, take risks, and lead with intention.
Click here to apply | Deadline: September 26
7. Regis Ohia Foundation Entrepreneurship Grant 2025.
At the Regis Ohia Foundation, they believe that great ideas should never be held back by a lack of resources. The Entrepreneurship Grant is designed to fuel the dreams of bold Nigerian entrepreneurs in Agribusiness, Healthcare, Education, and Recycling – those who are not only building businesses but creating solutions that make a lasting difference.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 31
8. GET Compass Grant Program 2025 – Cohort 4.
The GET Compass is a grant program that supports small and medium-scale businesses. Get up to 2 million Naira in grant which enables you to scale up and also facilitates programs that would give you the expertise to carry out your business processes better.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Sept. 7
9. DevelopSpace Grant Program 2025.
DevelopSpace is initiating a grants program to support projects working in relevant science and engineering areas that share their results and methods in an open manner.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 20
10. Chasm Business Grant for Women – August 20 ( Up to $ 50,0000 )
Are you a woman entrepreneur, founder, or small business owner with a bold vision and big dreams? Apply for the Chasm Business Grant for Women – August 2025. The Chasm Business Grant is here to support ambitious women like you with funding to help take your business to the next level!
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 31
11. Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge 2025.
The Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge is an annual open innovation challenge aimed at sourcing novel space technologies since 2016. This challenge seeks to drive entrepreneurial activity in the African space industry and promote awareness of the value of earth observation data across the continent and in multiple sectors such as water and food security, mining, logistics, insurance, and many more.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 29
12. FONTAGRO LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship Contest 2025.
FONTAGRO, together with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (ICA) and partners of the Latin American Bioeconomy Network, announce the “LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship 2025” contest.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Deadline: August 30
13. LISC/Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program 2025.
LISC and Foot Locker, Inc., through the Foot Locker Foundation, are launching a fifth round of grants for the Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program, which funds nonprofit community organizations that connect youth to mentorship, education, career development, and health services.
Click here to apply | Deadline : September 30
14. Broadcaster Envelope Program – Diverse Languages 2025.
This program is designed to support productions that reflect Canadian diversity by funding projects in languages other than English, French, or Indigenous-Canadian languages.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 16
15. British Academy Talent Development Awards 2025-2026.
The aim of the scheme is to enable researchers to build their skills and capacities in core areas to develop their current and future research. This includes core areas like quantitative skills, data science, digital humanities and languages. This scheme promotes the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas, supporting innovative research methods, be that through skills development, collaboration or dissemination.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 8
16. GEMS Education Global Teacher Prize 2026.
The $1 million prize has been recognising exceptional teachers for a decade and is once again looking for visionary educators who are reinventing learning, tackling local challenges, and changing lives far beyond the classroom.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 30
17. FONTAGRO LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship Contest 2025.
FONTAGRO, together with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (ICA) and partners of the Latin American Bioeconomy Network, announce the “LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship 2025” contest.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 30
18. UN FAO World Food Day Poster Contest 2025.
Join the World Food Day Poster Contest and show your creativity! Use your skills to show how better foods create a better future – and how together we can build a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure world where everyone has access to a healthy diet. Let your poster inspire action for the future we can build hand in hand with people, communities, and nature.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 7
19. IFAD Somalia. Women’s Market Access Innovation Challenge 2025.
The Open Innovation Challenge is a pivotal initiative designed to enhance agricultural innovation and empower entrepreneurs in Somalia to bring ideas to solve the challenges Somali women farmers face in accessing markets.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 31
20. LATAM-based startup founders and startups with at least one LATAM-based 18. GHHIN/EJN Extreme Heat Photo Contest 2025.
The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), in partnership with Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN), is launching a global photography competition to showcase the real impacts of extreme heat, and the ways communities around the world are responding to it.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 29
21. Al4D Innovation Scaling Challenge 2025.
The Lab for Ethics, Policy and Scaling of Al (LEPSAl), of the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) invites eligible Al innovators to express their interest in participating in the Al4D Innovation scaling challenge.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 4
22. Alibaba CoCreate Pitch Competition 2025.
CoCreate Pitch is the world’s leading product-driven startup competition – where bold entrepreneurs pitch their vision, connect with top global manufacturers and investors, and compete for a share of $1 million in prizes. With star mentors, massive exposure, and the full power of Alibaba.com’s sourcing ecosystem, this is more than a pitch – it’s your launchpad to global success.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 15 (US) / Oct 15 (Europe)
23. Yale Drama Series International Playwriting Competition 2026.
The Yale Drama Series is an annual, international competition for emerging playwrights, funded by generous support from the David Charles Horn Foundation. The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 15
24. Amelia Earhart Fellowship 2026.
The Fellowship is awarded annually to up to 30 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace-applied sciences or aerospace-applied engineering. It may be used at any university or college offering accredited post-graduate courses and degrees in these fields.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 15
25. AERC-World Bank Visiting Scholars Program 2026.
AERC invites its network researchers and faculty to submit an expression of interest to participate in the AERC-World Bank visiting scholars program.The fellowship programme will enable participants to spend time at the World Bank, work on their own research relevant to economic development in Africa, and to work with the World Bank’s researchers to develop, especially those in the Africa Region.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 1
25. ELISA Business Scholars Program 2025.
The 3-day business experience brings together a cohort of high potential entrepreneurs or founders of startups with bold business ideas for various industry sectors across Africa.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 31
26. UN OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2026.
The Indigenous Fellowship Programme was launched in 1997 by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the context of the first International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. The aim of the programme is to give indigenous persons the opportunity to gain knowledge about the UN system and mechanisms dealing with human rights issues in general and indigenous issues in particular.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept 15
27. L’Oréal Groupe Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Programme 2025.
L’Oréal Groupe, the world’s leading beauty company, paves the way for a more sustainable future in seeking, advancing and scaling pioneering solutions through a Sustainable Innovation Accelerator programme.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept 30
28. AMWAJ Fellowship Programme for Journalists 2025.
The AMWAJ Fellowship Programme for Journalists will give young professional journalists a boost in their early careers. They champion stories about sustainability and its derivative sub-themes of circular economy, ecosystem restoration, energy transition, sustainable mobility and water resources are what define our world today.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 31
29. Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Fellowship 2025.
For a fifth time, Algorithm Watch is looking for new Algorithmic Accountability Reporting fellows. Apply now if you have research ideas concerning the relation between Artificial Intelligence and power and its consequences.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept 20
30. Girls Who Invest Summer Intensive Program 2026.
Building on the foundations set in the GWI Intensive Program’s unified curriculum, their Summer Intensive Program (SIP) combines academic instruction with real-world experience. It is intensive, immersive, and an incredible opportunity to explore a career in finance and investment as part of a supportive community of peers, lecturers, industry experts, Alumni, and GWI staff.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 1
31. TWAS-SISSA-Lincei Research Cooperation Visits Programme 2025-2026
UNESCO-TWAS, in collaboration with the Lincei Academy and the International School for Advanced Studies
(SISSA), offers young scientists from Least Developed Countries the opportunity to visit research laboratories at Centres of Excellence in Trieste, Italy.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 15
32. FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme for Researchers 2026/2027.
The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) invites researchers based in an African country with a completed doctoral degree and a minimum of eight years of post-doctoral experience to apply for the FRIAS Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship Programme 2026/2027.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 12
33. UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development 2025-2026.
The UNESCO-Hamdan Prize for Teacher Development was created in 2008 to support the improvement of teaching and learning quality toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education, one of UNESCO’s priorities. Awarded every two years, the Prize is generously supported by the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences (Hamdan Foundation).
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 3
34. iF Social Impact Prize 2025.
The iF Social Impact Prize supports projects that contribute to improving the society. If you work towards achieving one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, your project is eligible.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Sept. 1
