Deadline: 26 February 2025
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is inviting expressions of interest from qualified implementing partners to support the implementation of the Youth Technology and Innovation Programme in the Eastern Cape, Free State, Northern Cape, and North West provinces.
Scope of Work
- Activities expected to be performed by TIA: programme oversight, strategy development, monitoring and evaluation, intelligence gathering on systemic gaps, coordination, provide process, templates and platform, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Activities to be performed by Implementing Partners (depending on expertise and capacity):
- Capacity building: capacitating HEI/TVET lecturers, students, and staff of the Office of the Technology Transfer for previously disadvantaged institutions.
- Pre-investment phase of the programme: the partners will implement the competition, assist to define the competition, rules of the competition, assist innovators to complete application on the portal, participate in the judging committee, host the provincial competition, identify innovative ideas from the student innovators, conduct due diligence on the applications received, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.
- Post-award phase of the programme: the partners will be involved in contracting of the beneficiaries, providing support for technology development, incubation, mentorship, capacity building and skill transfer to previously disadvantaged institutions, assist in seeking follow-on funding, commercialisation support and IP strategy development, assist the funded projects with market access opportunities, access to business development and financial skills, value chain analysis and identifying opportunities within value chains and production systems, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.
- Providing value-added services: promotion of the programme, awareness, networking, partnership, co-funding, and fund raising.
Eligibility Criteria
- The entity must be a South African organisation.
- The operations of the organisations must be in either the Eastern Cape, Free State, Northern Cape or North West Provinces.
- The organisation must have track record of minimum of 3 years of delivering the services required.
- Preference will be given to organisations with a project team that is diverse and inclusive (women, youth, people with disabilities).
- The organisation must produce the last three years of audited financial statements.
- Applicants must submit a detailed proposal of their programmes.
For more information, visit TIA.
