EUR 42,000 Youth Innovation Grants

Organization: AU-EU Youth Action Lab

Type: Grant

Location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Deadline: September 23, 2026

Funding: Fully Funded

The AU-EU Youth Action Lab is a European Union funded programme run by Oxfam, the European Youth Forum and Restless Development Uganda. Its Innovation Grants give youth-led organisations EUR 42,000 over twelve months to design, test, adapt, scale or improve a solution to a global challenge in their own community. Thirteen grants are available, and the organisers say this is the final call for proposals of the programme. **What you get:** - EUR 42,000 for a twelve month project, paid to your organisation in two instalments - Mentorship and capacity development support shaped around what your organisation needs - A place on the Youth Action Lab platform to share your solution with peers, decision makers and other stakeholders across Africa and Europe - Funded travel for up to two representatives to an in person Link and Learn event in one of the twelve focus countries, budgeted inside the grant - At least 5 percent of the grant set aside for technical support to strengthen your organisation **What you'll do:** - Design, test, adapt, scale or improve an activity, approach, campaign or collaboration that creates lasting change for young people in your community - Address a global challenge linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2063 or another relevant framework, using an intersectional approach - Run your project over twelve months, from January 2027 to December 2027 - Join monthly online progress calls with the Oxfam team and monthly social hangouts with other grantees on the Power2Voices platform - Share what you learn with youth actors and other stakeholders across Africa and Europe **Key dates:** - Applications close 23 September 2026 at 13:00 Central African Time - Review by Oxfam and the Youth Advisory Board, plus due diligence, 24 September to 20 November 2026 - Results announced December 2026, with selected applicants notified by January 2027 - Grant implementation period January 2027 to December 2027 - In person Link and Learn event around June 2027, in one of the twelve focus countries **More information:** - Full eligibility, budget rules and application guidance are in the Innovation Grant funding manual, published in English, Portuguese and French - Applications are submitted through the ON Grip online system, which you reach by first completing a short registration form - Questions about this grant go to innovation@aueuyouth.com

AU-EU Youth Action LabGrant

EUR 42,000 Youth Innovation Grants

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Opportunity type

Grant

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Global

Deadline

Archived

About this opportunity

What you get:

EUR 42,000 for a twelve month project, paid to your organisation in two instalments
Mentorship and capacity development support shaped around what your organisation needs
A place on the Youth Action Lab platform to share your solution with peers, decision makers and other stakeholders across Africa and Europe
Funded travel for up to two representatives to an in person Link and Learn event in one of the twelve focus countries, budgeted inside the grant
At least 5 percent of the grant set aside for technical support to strengthen your organisation

What you'll do:

Design, test, adapt, scale or improve an activity, approach, campaign or collaboration that creates lasting change for young people in your community
Address a global challenge linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2063 or another relevant framework, using an intersectional approach
Run your project over twelve months, from January 2027 to December 2027
Join monthly online progress calls with the Oxfam team and monthly social hangouts with other grantees on the Power2Voices platform
Share what you learn with youth actors and other stakeholders across Africa and Europe

Key dates:

Applications close 23 September 2026 at 13:00 Central African Time
Review by Oxfam and the Youth Advisory Board, plus due diligence, 24 September to 20 November 2026
Results announced December 2026, with selected applicants notified by January 2027
Grant implementation period January 2027 to December 2027
In person Link and Learn event around June 2027, in one of the twelve focus countries

More information:

Full eligibility, budget rules and application guidance are in the Innovation Grant funding manual, published in English, Portuguese and French
Applications are submitted through the ON Grip online system, which you reach by first completing a short registration form
Questions about this grant go to innovation@aueuyouth.com

Who can apply

Your organisation must be a non-profit operating as a Trust, Community Based Organisation (CBO), Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) or Civil Society Organisation (CSO) with a clear social mission
Your organisation must be youth-led: people aged 18 to 35 hold 100 percent of governance and primary decision making power, and more than 80 percent of those designing and carrying out activities are aged 18 to 35
Your project must be youth-led: 100 percent of the staff working on the project are aged 18 to 35
Your organisation must be legally registered in its country, hold an organisation bank account and have a clear governance structure
You must be located and registered in one of the twelve focus countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia or Zimbabwe
Your proposed activities must take place in one or more of those twelve countries
You may apply for only one AU-EU Youth Action Lab grant type per call, so an organisation cannot apply for both the Innovation Grants and the Entrepreneurship Grants
An organisation already awarded a grant under this programme cannot reapply
Applications must use the compulsory budget template and be submitted in a single language: English, French or Portuguese
Grants are awarded at the full EUR 42,000 only; you cannot apply for more or less

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Good to know

+EUR 42,000 to a youth led organisation, with no matching funds and no co funding required.
+Your budget is expected to cover travel to the compulsory in person event, so attending does not come out of your own pocket.
+Proposals are chosen by a Youth Advisory Board of twelve young people, ten of them from the eligible countries themselves.
+A full funding manual, a budget template and a step by step walkthrough are published openly in English, Portuguese and French before you apply.
+Applications are shortlisted country by country, so you compete against organisations from your own country rather than the whole field.
+Free to apply, funded by the European Union and run by Oxfam, the European Youth Forum and Restless Development Uganda.

Worth checking yourself

!This is the final round of the programme. If you are unsuccessful there is no next call to try.
!It closes at 13:00 Central African Time on 23 September, mid afternoon rather than end of day.
!You must be a legally registered organisation with your own bank account. An individual or an informal group cannot apply.
!Only thirteen grants are available.
!Eligibility is a hard list of twelve countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. For Somalia it is limited to the Somaliland region.
!You must choose between this and the Entrepreneurship Grant. Applying to both means only your first submission counts.

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