Applications are open for the Afrique Créative is an incubation program designed to structure the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in Africa. By supporting and strengthening the capacities of selected entrepreneurs, Afrique Créative aims to support sustainable growth that will bring change. The program aims to promote the structuring of the cultural and creative ecosystem by boosting the development, the skill sets and the networking of companies active in this sector. Afrique Créative addresses operators combining both creativity and entrepreneurship in order to maximize their potential in terms of job creation and economic growth.
As an industrial sector still largely untapped in Africa, the cultural and creative field occurs as an important economic lever. Cultural and creative industries are vectors of social innovation and generate impact within their communities. Because its resources are non-polluting and inexhaustible, this sector represents an opportunity to build a fairer and more sustainable world!

Objective

The objective of the Afrique Créative program is to support the development of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in order to maximize their social and economic impact.

Benefit

• Technical assistance from experts at both national and international level
• Regular coaching by mentors
• Networking with potential partners and investors
• A grant to boost the organisation’s growth: between 75,000 and 125,000 euros
• Coaching to help raise additional funds

Eligiblity

Open to cultural and creative organizations from the following countries:

• Burkina Faso
• Morocco
• Senegal
• Uganda

Further,

• cultural and/or creative organization
• be a private legal entity (company or non-profit organization)
• be based in one of the following four countries: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco or Uganda have existed for at least two years
• become legally registered with the competent national authorities and have legal status as well as a governance body (board of directors, management committee, etc.)
• fill in the application form and provide all the requested documents in French or English