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Technological Innovations track. GHAYIB 2026.
• Technology-enabled Primary Health Care solutions such as AI screening, tele-counselling, connected devices, and decision-support tools, with priority given to clinically relevant, field-tested solutions that demonstrate impact, scalability, strong teams, and ethical sustainability.
• Health startups and technical teams.
• Africa.
• $10k prize pool.
• October 7, 2026.
Scientific Research track. GHAYIB 2026.
• Rigorous research on mental health in Africa including epidemiological, clinical, and operational studies, aimed at generating evidence to improve primary care and inform public policy and clinical practice.
• PhD candidates, young researchers, and research teams.
• Africa.
• $10k prize pool.
• October 7, 2026.
CANEX Creative Pitch. CANEX.
• Creative entrepreneurs and enterprises operating in CANEX’s active markets across film, fashion, music, sports, gastronomy, visual and performing arts, literature, publishing, creative technology, and related high-growth sectors.
• Selected finalists must be available in Lagos, Nigeria on 5–6 November 2026 to deliver their live pitch.
• Individuals, early-stage startups, and established enterprises.
• Africa.
• Up to $20k prizes.
• October 9, 2026.
EOI: Strategic Innovative Fund. ActionAid Nigeria (AAN).
• Innovative, scalable interventions by women-led Nigerian women’s rights organizations that advance gender equality and the rights of women and girls, particularly structurally excluded groups, through approaches addressing violence, economic empowerment, political participation, conflict, and other systemic barriers.
• A women’s rights organization or women’s rights network.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$15,095 (₦20 million) grant funding.
• October 12, 2026.
HealthTech. The Shift Innovation Challenge.
• Supports 20 HealthTech startups in Egypt across health, AI, mental health, women’s health, and sports technology, providing blended training and investment-readiness support to legally registered startups with scalable solutions and a commitment to establishing a long-term presence in Egypt.
• HealthTech startups.
• Egypt.
• Up to $10k grant alongside mentorship.
• October 14, 2026.
PAIE Scholars Program. J-PAL.
• Rigorous evaluations of AI applications for social good and poverty reduction through training.
• PhD-qualified researchers at universities.
• LMICs in Asia and Africa.
• $1k award alongside research mentorship.
• October 16, 2026.
thinkcell Global Case Competition. thinkcell.
• A competition challenging participants to solve a real-world business problem while demonstrating strong analytical, problem-solving, and storytelling skills under pressure.
• Any currently enrolled student at a verified higher education institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $3k prizes.
• October 16, 2026.
Aspire Leaders Program. Aspire Institute.
• A free, fully funded six-week online program for first-generation and limited-income university students and recent graduates worldwide, offering self-paced learning, live masterclasses, peer learning, and access to a global community of emerging leaders.
• 18–29-year-old university students and graduates who are currently enrolled in or have completed undergraduate or postgraduate studies and come from a limited-income or first-generation university background.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k seed funding alongside mentorship.
• October 16, 2026.
Africa Innovation in Agriculture and Food Security Accelerator (2027). Halcyon.
• Early-stage, post-revenue/pre-profit ventures across Sub-Saharan Africa using market-based, tech-enabled solutions to strengthen agriculture and food systems, improve smallholder livelihoods and resilience, and address climate, food security, productivity, market access, finance, supply chain, nutrition, and related challenges.
• Full-time founders aged 21+ with an MVP-stage startup that has reached paid pilots or post-revenue, demonstrated commercial traction and market validation.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to $10k equity-free stipend per venture alongside $10k AWS credits and workshops.
• October 23, 2026.
Build Your AgriCanvas. Build Your Future. ComCashew.
• Inviting young and emerging entrepreneurs within the cashew sector to transform their ideas into investment-ready, climate-smart ventures.
• Submission should build on the knowledge and tools from the free cashew courses on e-MOVE.
• Member state of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).
• €2k direct funding to boost your business alongside a laptop, tablet, or software to keep you on top of operations.
• October 30, 2026.
Seed Grants. Wild Animal Initiative.
• Small grants for pilot or observational wild animal welfare research that generates evidence-based hypotheses for future, more advanced studies.
• Small research projects.
• All countries.
• Up to $30k grant funding.
• October 31, 2026.
Space-IoT Innovation Programme. KijaniSpace.
• Supports projects with existing agriculture-related solutions to enhance crop or fish farming and other climate-smart applications using Copernicus Earth Observation, IoT, and Space-IoT Box resources, with a focus on benefits to the Lake Victoria Basin.
• SMEs & start-ups.
• Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
• Up to €5k grant funding alongside mentoring.
• November 16, 2026.
National Call for Applications in the Sudan. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
• Supports youth-led climate innovations in Sudan’s agriculture and livestock value chains to create jobs for youth and women and reduce fragility.
• Open to 18–35-year-old IGAD citizens legally residing and able to own businesses in Sudan who are current students or recent university/TVET graduates, co-founders of a proposed initiative, and not employed full-time.
• Select IGAD member countries, namely South Sudan, Sudan and Djibouti. Preference will be given to citizens of Sudan.
• Seed funds of up to $10k.
• November 20, 2026.
Living Legacy: Grants for Fostering and Spreading the Traditional Building Cultures. Traditional Building Cultures Foundation.
• Supports research, documentation, conservation, education, training, publications, exhibitions, digital resources, and other non-commercial initiatives that advance the knowledge, practice, preservation, transmission, or dissemination of traditional building cultures.
• Applications may be submitted by individuals, as well as by associations, foundations, universities, research centers, cultural institutions, and any other entity committed to this field.
• All countries.
• Three grants of up to €3k each will be awarded.
• December 1, 2026.
2027 Horowitz Foundation Awards. Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
• Supports dissertation-level PhD research by emerging social science scholars addressing contemporary policy issues through significant, feasible, original, theoretically informed, and empirically rigorous research.
• Aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level.
• All countries.
• $10k research grants, with additional $3k and $5k awards for the most innovative and most outstanding projects, respectively.
• December 1, 2026.
International Development Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To increase opportunities for individuals and organizations for the development and/or dissemination of behavior analysis internationally.
• Applicants must be formally affiliated with a university or institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 13, 2027.
Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Supports doctoral research using a behavior-analytic natural-science framework to investigate behavioral development and its underlying processes, particularly cognitive, social, emotional, and language development in children.
• Doctoral students in psychology, education, behavioral science, or related fields conducting rigorous child-development research from a behavior-analytic perspective, with at least six months remaining in their program and adequate faculty supervision.
• All countries.
• Grants of up to $12k.
• January 13, 2027.
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Up to $150k prizes from SOLVE Global Challenges
£150k for social & environmental ventures
€200k for Deep-Tech startups
$250k for nature-based climate resilience solutions