Applications are currently being accepted for the UNDP Africa Pan-African MineTech Exploration Technology Pre-Incubation Programme 2027. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About UNDP Africa Pan-African MineTech Exploration Technology Pre-Incubation Programme
The timbuktoo MineTech Hub, along with the United Nations Development Programme and ecosystem companions throughout Botswana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe, invites college students, graduates, researchers, engineers, innovators, technical professionals and early-stage entrepreneurs to show actual world mining and mineral exploration challenges into sensible know-how options.
- Sponsor Organisation: UNDP
Benefits of UNDP Africa Pan-African MineTech Exploration Technology Pre-Incubation Programme
- Technical mentorship from consultants, universities, geological establishments and mining sector practitioners.
- Industry engagement and validation to check whether or not your resolution meets real consumer wants.
- Prototype improvement help by way of UniPods, MineTech Hub amenities and related innovation infrastructure.
- Entrepreneurship and enterprise readiness help, together with enterprise fashions, market validation and routes to commercialisation.
- Networking with mining stakeholders, researchers, know-how consultants, buyers and innovation organisations.
Selected groups can also compete for seed funding to construct low constancy prototypes and proof of idea options, and excessive potential groups could progress to MineTech Hub incubation.
UNDP Africa Pan-African MineTech Exploration Technology Pre-Incubation Programme Requirements
Multidisciplinary groups of two to five members, all aged 18 to 35, and all based mostly in the identical nation, which should be Botswana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia or Zimbabwe, so the crew can work collectively on the devoted UniPod. Your crew ought to:
- Be made up of scholars, current graduates, researchers, engineers, technical professionals, innovators or early-stage entrepreneurs.
- Bring complementary expertise throughout not less than two related disciplines, together with technical experience reminiscent of Computer Science, Data Science, Mining Engineering, Geomatics or Software Engineering and different comparable disciplines.
- Have a clearly recognized drawback in mineral exploration, mining or associated environmental or operational actions, and an preliminary know-how-based mostly concept to deal with it.
- Define the function of every crew member and decide to the programme all through.
- Provide a sound nationwide ID for every crew member.
- Female candidates are strongly inspired to apply.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
16 October, 2026
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