Submit Applications for BIC Africa Acceleration Programme

The programme will run from April to July 2025, and it will focus on established post-revenue women entrepreneurs with a registered business and an operational team, across all sectors and business types through a combination of online training modules, group coaching sessions, individual exercises, and networking sessions with women experts from Africa and Europe with relevant experience in supporting innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups. One-on-one mentoring sessions will be offered to a limited number of participants.

Why join the BIC Africa Acceleration Programme?

• The BIC Africa Acceleration Programme is aimed at helping the 30 participants:
  • Explore growth and scaling trajectories for their businesses and solutions.
  • Assess the team competencies and consider how their business model will adapt to the growth phase.
  • Articulate the social value proposition, identifying why and how the proposed solution contributes to SDGs.
  • Gain access to appropriate sectorial, local, and international experts.
  • Join a vibrant community of women entrepreneurs, to learn, exchange and connect.
  • Connect with BIC Africa and the European Business Innovation Centre Network (EBN) to unleash the impact of women entrepreneurs

Eligibility Criteria 

• In order to be eligible to apply and participate, applicants must meet the following criteria:
  • The applicant must be a woman founder/CEO of a company (minimum age of 18-years-old).
  • The business must be already in existence (and registered) for more than 1 year and must have an operational team.
  • Based in Sub-Saharan Africa (Angola, Comoros, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Somalia being the main target countries with overall 20 seats available in the acceleration batch, out of 30)
  • Have a good working knowledge of English language (proved by the use of English in the application).

For more information, visit BIC Africa.