British Council: SoCreative Africa Learning Programme 2025

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are invited for the British Council SoCreative Africa Learning Programme 2025. The SoCreative Africa learning programme for aspiring and early-stage young African entrepreneurs is focused on entrepreneurship and delivers a collection of free online courses for the next generation of African leaders to support them through their business journey.

The programme is developed to support the British Council’s wider Creative Economy strand, designed to help develop an ecosystem in which young entrepreneurs can thrive.

Programme Modules

Creative Entrepreneurship

Basic: Understanding the Creative Economy (including what sectors constitute the Creative Economy and the economic, social, and cultural value of the Creative Industries) using relevant case studies and data to aid understanding.
- Course 1: Intro 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 basic course as a recommended pre-requisite, the intermediate course will provide additional depth to the basic courses and includes the following:
- 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 through Creative Entrepreneurship

Provide participants with an understanding of the impact of entrepreneurship, social innovation, and factors to consider in pivoting enterprises to achieve social impact.

Topic 1: Introduction to ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’
Topic 2: Introduction to Impact Economy: Balancing Profit with Impact
Topic 3: Understanding Social Innovation (including Human-Centered Design)
Topic 4: Factors to consider in pivoting your enterprise to achieve social impact.
Topic 5: Impact Entrepreneurship of the 21st Century: The Role of Technology.
Topic 6: Inclusion, Sustainability, and Values and Ethics.
Topic 7: Types of financing for Impact Enterprises and how to attract them.

Creative Economy Policy

This intermediate course provides relevant insight for policy stakeholders about the creative economy.

Topic 1: Refresher on Introduction to Policy Making
Topic 2: Understanding the Creative Economy
Topic 3: The role of the creative economy in sustainable development
Topic 4: Approaches to Creative Economy Policy
Topic 5: Steps to consider for the development or strengthening of the creative economy

Benefits

Participants will receive a certificate to prove their achievement upon completing the programme. The certificate will make you eligible to apply for sustained support through mentoring, coaching, incubation, and acceleration through their wider work in participating countries.

Eligibility