Here are 20 exciting opportunities currently open as of June 18, 2025, across various sectors, from fellowships and grants to jobs and training programs. Whether you’re a development worker, creative, educator, health professional, or tech enthusiast, there’s something here for you. Don’t miss your chance—explore and apply!
1. Moonshot Pirates Shape the Future Challenge 2025.
Are you between 15 and 24? Join the Shape the Future Challenge to team up with passionate peers and world-class mentors to tackle one of our planet’s greatest challenges-climate change!
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 30
2. Reach for Gold Social Impact Fellowship 2025.
The Reach for Gold Social Impact Fellowship is a transformative leadership and capacity building program designed to empower the next generation of leaders who are passionate about creating lasting impact in their communities.
Click here to apply | Deadline: July 11
3. National Mentor Development Program 2025.
The National Mentor Development Program’s primary aim is to empower women and gender-diverse individuals within the trades by equipping them with valuable mentorship skills. This program also strives to establish a strong support network that offers coaching and showcases positive role models. The goal of the program is to enhance the retention and career advancement opportunities for women in the trades through creating effective mentors and, subsequently, mentorship relationships.
Click here to apply | Deadline: July 25
4. Elia Group Open Innovation Challenge (OIC) 2025.
The OlC is a competition designed to stimulate fresh thinking and foster innovation in areas that are essential to the Elia Group’s mission. This year, they are placing people at the heart of their transformation journey. Under the slogan ‘’People First’, the OIC 2025 invites start-ups, SMEs, and innovative teams from around the world to help them develop solutions that enhance the experience, safety, and development of their workforce as they accelerate the energy transition.
Click here to apply | Deadline: July 24
5. Unpublished Africa Creative Business Studio 2025.
Creative Business Studio is a flagship program developed by Unpublished Africa, specifically designed to empower African visual storytellers and creative entrepreneurs. It’s a capacity-building initiative aimed at bridging the gap between artistic talent and essential business acumen, enabling creatives to build sustainable and profitable careers. The program has successfully run 3 cohorts, impacting creatives from 15+ African countries.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 25, 2025
6. ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition – Summer 2025.
The ChallengeUS Future Leaders Competition aims to critically engage and amplity youth voices from all over the world in civic ideas and challenges. The competition seeks to find, spotlight, and reward promising future leaders through scholarship prizes and award recognition. For this summer cycle, the competition is asking students to envision their future and what they hope their country accomplishes by the year 2050.
Click here to apply | Deadline: July 25
7. HYPE Marketing Assistance Grant 2026.
HYPE is MPMG’s annual grant program to help support emerging Canadian artists in the presentation of a new work, across all performing artistic disciplines. Open to organizations who have been in operation for no more than three years, at time of application, each recipient will receive $12,000 of marketing and consulting services from MPMG to promote work being presented during the winter or spring season.
here to apply | Deadline: September 9
8. Call for proposals : CIPESA Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica25).
The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) invites interested parties to submit session proposals to the 2025 edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica25). Successful submissions will help to shape the agenda of the event, which is set to gather policymakers, regulators, human rights defenders, journalists, academics, private sector players, global information intermediaries, bloggers, and developers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 20
9. Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship 2026-2027.
The Biodesign Innovation Fellowship is a 10-month experience that equips aspiring innovators with a proven, repeatable process to identify important health-related needs, invent novel health technologies to address them (including medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, drug delivery, and biotechnology solutions), and prepare to implement those products into patient care through start-up, corporations, or other channels.
Click here to apply | Deadline: July 28
10. SFF FinTech Excellence Awards 2025.
The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) FinTech Excellence Awards 2025, organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore FinTech Association (SFA), serve as a beacon of excellence within the FinTech ecosystem, recognising the remarkable contribution of both corporate entities and individual contributors.
Click here to apply | Deadline: July 25
11. KBr Photo Award 2025.
This is an international competition organized every two years by Fundación MAPFRE. This award seeks to recognize and highlight photographers with an established professional career whose work demonstrates artistic values of particular interest within the tradition of documentary photography.
Click here to apply | Deadline: September 1
12. FoundHers Labs Program 2025.
The 3-month hybrid program is designed to empower early-stage, tech-enabled businesses led by women entrepreneurs. Through a combination of in-person workshops, online learning, and one-on-one mentorship, they help you scale your business and prepare for venture capital funding.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 18
13. Black Youth Al Fellowship 2025.
The Black Youth Al Fellowship is an 8-week virtual program designed to equip Black university students in Canada with real-world Al skills, mentorship, and a national network — all for free.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 22
14. AfricaNenda Foundation is calling on Digital Agencies to submit proposals.
AfricaNenda wishes to seek and retain a reputable and qualified creative digital agency to provide digital marketing, web design, web development, data visualization, motion design and social media support services. AfricaNenda is seeking not only a digital agency, but a partner that will be integral in its growth efforts and share a dedication to excellence and Success.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 6
15. Momentum Program 2026 for Canadian Entrepreneurs.
Momentum is a hands-on, 12-week virtual business training program for emerging entrepreneurs across Canada. If you want to start seeing more consistent sales and would benefit from live coaching and community support as you build and test your sales process from start to finish, this program is for you.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 29
16. Google for Startups Growth Academy – Al for GovTech 2025.
Google for Startups Growth Academy: Al for GovTech is a three-month program for EMEA-based Seed to Series A startups using Al to develop solutions that support governments and enhance communities in vital sectors such as agriculture, cybersecurity, education, energy, housing, transportation, and manufacturing.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 30
17. SA Tech Challenge 2025 .
The SA Tech Challenge is the most lucrative and exciting tech opportunity in South Africa to date. It is a collaboration between The Department of Science Technology and Innovation (DSTI) The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD), The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), The Innovation Bridge Portal (supported by the CSIR), The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) and Wits University’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 30
18. CNN Academy Program 2025 for Young Storytellers from the Global South.
The world is facing an era of unprecedented health challenges, from epidemics and disease outbreaks to the far-reaching impacts of humanitarian crises. In this landscape, we need a new generation of storytellers equipped to report facts and tell urgent, human-centered stories that can drive awareness, accountability, and action.
Click here to apply | Deadline : June 23
19. Photography 4 Humanity Global Contest 2025.
The Global Contest promotes climate justice. They believe climate change is a human rights issue, so they are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis. They include climate refuges, the very young, the very old, the disabled and injured, the poor, indigenous and island people, and women. Images of climate champions advocating for change, and those helping to mitigate and reverse climate change are welcome.
Click here to apply | Deadline: August 5
20. Cambridge Africa Changemakers Scholarship 2025.
The Cambridge Africa Changemakers Scholarship is a programme of full-cost scholarships for PhD students in any subject, open to candidates from any country in Africa. It is tenable at any college.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Unspecified
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