Young Innovation Leaders Fellowship Program for West Africans 2021

Applications are open for the Young Innovation Leaders (YIL) Fellowship Program 2021 for West Africans. The YIL Fellowship is a four-month annual leadership immersion program in innovation management designed to empower young professionals to attain their ultimate career dreams and inspire innovation in their spheres.

Its chief aim is to unleash human potentials and scale up excellence. This is an opportunity for exceptional young professionals to train to become innovation leaders. In this fourth edition of the fellowship, candidates are expected to learn and use innovation tools to create solutions to societal challenges and eventually scale them up for real impact.

The theme of the YIL Fellowship is “scaling up excellence”. The fellowship program includes: lectures, plenary sessions, workshops, and demonstrations. Important aspects of the training are: the challenge phase, the accelerator, the internship, and the mentorship. 

Candidates will:

• Learn how to create innovations from the experts.
• Participate in the capstone projects.
• Participate in the mentorship program.
• Gain Innovation Management certification.
• Build a great network with talented young professionals across the globe.
• Access to full scholarship.

The YIL Fellowship has the following details for selection:

• Applicants must be within 5 years of graduation from higher institutions.
• Applicants should have a track record of academic excellence.
• Prior work experience is not relevant.
• It is a multistage rigorous selection process.
• Applicants must be between 20-30 years of age.
• Applicants should have a hard skill.

About YIL fellowship:

Young Innovation Leaders Fellowship (YIL) is an innovative leadership program for exceptional and talented young professionals in Africa.

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