Apply: Orange Corners Nigeria Incubation Programme For Young Nigerians

Through Orange Corners, we provide young entrepreneurs with a 6-month incubation programme. At the same time, Orange Corners serves as a bridge between these innovative entrepreneurs and the private sector.

This offers a great benefit to all partners involved. Orange Corners is an initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in collaboration with a local service provider.

Our ambition is to develop and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Nigeria.

Details

This ecosystem should enable youth to develop their business concept and become successful entrepreneurs, by providing them with the necessary opportunities, skills and access to markets.

This program will not only provide the foundational entrepreneurial knowledge, tools and resources needed to transform an idea into a business but will also make available the networks and support needed for sustainable growth of the business.

This first batch of the 6 months program will be covered as scholarships by the Dutch Government.

Requirements

To meet the selection criteria you must be:

Be an aspiring entrepreneur from Lagos, Nigeria

Be between 18-35 years old

Have a validated innovative business concept, not more than <2 years old

The product or service responds to a local challenge in Nigeria

The product or service relates to the Sustainable Development Goals

Budding entrepreneurs will be selected based on the:

Innovativeness

Feasibility

Social Impact

Clarity of Market

Sustainability & Scalability of the business idea

Competence of the entrepreneur/team

Reward

What are the benefits of this programme for me?

The programme will be delivered in person and virtually due to the development of the pandemic.

This program will not only provide the foundational entrepreneurial knowledge, tools and resources needed to transform an idea into a business but will also make available the networks and support needed for sustainable growth of the business.

There is a variety of benefits the program will offer you of which the most important ones are:

Enterprise Management Training

Business Incubation & Advisory Services

Funding for prototype development & testing

Incubation & Boot Camp

The 50 semi-finalists will be invited to participate in a compulsory two-day-long Bootcamp in which a jury decides who are best placed to join the incubation programme

Selection will be conducted according to the performance during the Bootcamp. At the end of the Bootcamp, 20 young entrepreneurs will be selected to participate for six months.

How To Apply

The application form becomes available on our website before the beginning of each six-month cycle. Fill in all required fields and submit via the online application form submit button.

Please make sure to check your inbox regularly to see if you are one of the 50 selected semi-finalists.

Apply here

Wish you all the best