Call for pitching: Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton Africa 2020

Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton Africa 2020 (Naira 5 million financial grant & a mini MBA from International Finance Corporation)

Application Deadline: August 14, 2020

Click here to apply: https://bit.ly/2YrH3vC

The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 Campaign is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access to finance and world-class business trainings as well as mentoring opportunities. This programme has been designed to create an enabling environment for female entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.

Benefits

The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 will provide up to N9 million financial grant and a unique capacity building program aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs.

The programme is designed as a 3-month period incorporating pitching sessions and 8 weeks of mini-MBA training in collaboration with the IFC. Interested persons from Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia and Rwanda as well as with extension to Sierra Leone, Gambia, & Congo who meet the criteria are required to fill an online application.

Google for Startups Accelerator 2020 for Black Founders in the US

Deadline: June 30, 2020

Applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator for Black Founders 2020 are now open. The Google for Startups Accelerator for Black founders is a three-month digital accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups based in the U.S.

The accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google’s products, people and technology to Black founders across the U.S. In addition to mentorship and technical project support, the accelerator also includes workshops focused on machine learning, product design, customer acquisition and leadership development.

Eligibility

• Open to Black founders;
• They must be leading a high potential Seed to Series A tech startups based in the U.S.

Application

If you or someone you know would be a great fit for the Google for Startups Accelerator, encourage them to apply by June 30.

Click Here to apply: https://events.withgoogle.com/google-for-startups-accelerator-black-founders/

Nominations are open for the EQUALS in Tech Awards 2020!

EQUALS in Tech Awards 2020 for Initiatives and Projects Promoting Gender Equality

Is your work aimed at closing the gender digital divide? Nominations are now open for the EQUALS in Tech Awards 2020. They are looking for impressive, inspiring, and motivating initiatives from around the world.

Details:  https://opportunitydesk.org/2020/06/23/equals-in-tech-awards-2020/

The Awards are given every year to organizations and individuals working to help girls and women gain equal internet access, digital skills and opportunities in the tech industry.

We are celebrating the International Women in Engineering Day

International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED20) takes place on 23 June this year as usual.

We have compiled a short list of the most outstanding women engineers in the world. 

Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan engineer and Africa's richest woman. 

In 2013, according to Forbes, her net worth had exceeded US$2 billion making her Africa's first female US dollar billionaire.

Sofonie Dala is an Angolan engineer 

She will be the first woman to build a blended and e-learning platform for out of school women, girls and disabled children in Angola. 

Angola does not have any distance learning systems. As a result of covid-19 pandemic, the academic year in Angola was canceled. But Sofonie wrote a research paper about the implementation of e-learning schools in Angola last year before the emerge of coronavirus. 

Hedy Lamarr was an engineer 

• She devised a method of encrypting signals to prevent enemy spies listening to sensitive information, the underlying method of how we use Wi-Fi today.
• Without Hedy Lamarr, there would be no wireless communication in our modern world.

Watch this video 

​​International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry.

It celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world.

Background

National Women in Engineering Day was launched for the first time in the UK on 23 June 2014 by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. Since that launch in 2014 the day has grown enormously over the subsequent years to the point where it received UNESCO patronage in 2016. In 2017, National Women in Engineering Day became international for the first time due to the interest and enthusiasm developed by the international audience and participants in the previous years.

 

International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) was born to allow the celebration of women in engineering to become global. 

For 2018 we want to encourage all groups (Governmental, educational, corporate, Professional Engineering Institutions, individuals and other organisations) to organise their own events in support of the day, and link them together for maximum impact through the use of the INWED logo/campaign, corresponding website, and supporting resources.

Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Research Development Fellowships 2020 for early-career Researchers

Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Research Development Fellowships 2020 for early-career Researchers ( £38,000 Award)

Application Deadline: 23 September 2020 https://bit.ly/2BzHgUk

The AREF Research Development Fellowship (RDF) Programme is being launched to support African researchers who are working on important challenges for human health in Africa. 

Requirements

To be eligible, applicants must be a national of a country in Sub-Saharan Africa. You need not be resident in Africa at the time of applying, provided that your application is officially supported by an African institution that meets the eligibility criteria for an employing institution and which attests that it intends to employ you locally. 

Benefits

A three to nine-month placement at a leading research institution in Europe or Africa, with additional support at your home institution before and after the placement, up to a maximum of £38,000.

Call for Application: SDGs Champions Program 2020 for young Nigerians

Call for Application: SDGs Champions Program 2020 for young Nigerians

Application Deadline: July 15th 2020 

APPLY: https://bit.ly/37Vd9TF

Are you passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals or you run an organization that is working towards implementing SDGs related projects and activities? The Nigeria Youth SDGs Network (NGYouthSDGs) is on a drive to expand and engage more young people in achieving the 2030 Agenda with a focus on human capacity development and access to decent work.

The Nigerian Youth Network is an alliance of over 200 youth-led/focus civil society organisations working together to ensure Nigeria keeps her promise to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), both at home and abroad. The Network is actively providing opportunities for youth-led/focus civil society organizations to make their voice count as we hold government accountable for the SDGs and we raise awareness across communities telling everyone about the Sustainable Development Goals through providing data to track SDGs implementation in Nigeria, ensure collaborations amongst organizations and work closely with government, academia, business, and religious stakeholders to ensure that we achieve the SDGs by 2030.

Master’s and Doctoral Scholarships 2020/2021 for young South Africans.

DAAD-NRF Joint In-Country Master’s and Doctoral Scholarships 2020/2021 for young South Africans.

Application Deadline:: 14 August 2020 

Apply here:https://bit.ly/3esPT1A

Together with the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa, the DAAD awards funding for Master and PhD degrees at South African Universities to South Africans citizens or permanent South African residents as part of its In-Country/In-Region Scholarship Programme.

The DAAD-NRF In-Country Scholarship is jointly awarded by the DAAD and the NRF to full-time Master and PhD students in South Africa in all fields of study at any South African university. A South African citizenship or a permanent South African residency is a requirement for the scholarship.

DAAD-NRF In-Country Scholarship holders are eligible for exciting funding and networking opportunities in addition to the scholarship they have received for their full-time Master or PhD degree in South Africa:

Scholarship holders are eligible to apply for a short-term research visit to Germany
Scholarship holders are eligible to apply for one of six interdisciplinary summer schools offered in Germany during their funding period:

Heidelberg University – Enhancing Academic Qualifications in Teaching and Research in Public Health
HAW Hamburg – Education And Research oriented Training in Health Sciences
TH Cologne – Data to Decision: Assessment of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus
University of Frankfurt – Environmental and Remote Sensing Data Analysis via Geospatial Technologies in Research and Teaching
ABI Freiburg – Contested Governance
University of Leipzig – Project Development for Knowledge Transfer