The British Council Zimbawe is calling on early-stage young African entrepreneurs to apply for its SoCreative Africa learning programme.
The SoCreative Africa learning programme targets young entrepreneurs and offers a range of free online programmes for the next generation of African leaders, assisting them on their professional journey.
Upon finishing the programme, individuals will obtain a certificates as proof of their achievement. The certificates will make one eligible to apply for ongoing support through mentoring, teaching, incubation, and acceleration as part of our broader efforts in participating nations.
The programme is developed to help the British Council’s wider Creative Economy strand, designed to assist develop an ecosystem wherein young entrepreneurs can thrive.
Programme modules
Creative entrepreneurship
Basic
Understanding the creative economy (Including what sectors represent the creative economy, the financial, social and cultural worth of the creative industries) utilizing related case research and knowledge to assist understanding).
Course 1: Introduction to African creative economy
Course 2: Bringing your idea to life
Course 3: Finding the right people
Course 4: Building your business
Course 5: Branding and marketing your business
Intermediate
With the essential course as a advisable pre-requisite, the intermediate course will present extra depth to fundamental programs and contains the next:
Course 1: Your entrepreneurship strategy
Course 2: Personal and business growth strategies
Course 3: Protecting my business
Course 4: Finance for creative business
Course 5: Building and leading teams
Course 6: Raising capital for my business
Course 7: Promoting and pitching my business
Social Impact by means of creative entrepreneurship
Provide individuals with an understanding of influence entrepreneurship, social innovation and elements to think about in pivoting enterprises to realize social influence
Topic 1: Introduction to ‘impact entrepreneurship’
Topic 2: Introduction to impact economy – balancing revenue with influence
Topic 3: Understanding social innovation (together with Human Centered Design)
Topic 4: Factors to think about in pivoting your enterprise to realize social influence
Topic 5: Impact entrepreneurship of the twenty first century: The position of know-how
Topic 6: Inclusion, sustainability and values and ethics
Topic 7: Types of financing for impact enterprises and find out how to appeal to them
Creative economy policy
This intermediate course supplies related perception for coverage stakeholders in relation to the artistic economic system
Topic 1: Refresher on introduction to policy making
Topic 2: Understanding the creative economy
Topic 3: The position of artistic economic system in sustainable improvement
Topic 4: Approaches to creative economy policy
Topic 5: Steps to think about for the event or strengthening of the artistic economic system.
View the original call here.
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