Deadline:
May 05, 2024
Fellowship & Research
Grant
Location(s)
South Africa
Overview
Our Fellowship Programme equips university students with more than just a degree. It equips students with the tools necessary to flourish in their industry. It provides them with the ability to see the whole picture and to use their voice to fill in the gaps. It’s a directive to do business that’s inclusive, innovative and downright inspirational. It transforms university students personally, and is an open-ended invitation to redesign the world.
Details
- Choosing Entrepreneurship as a viable career path: Our Fellowship Programme focuses on cultivating entrepreneurship in Candidate Fellows by ensuring that by the end of the Fellowship Programme they desire to create value through responsible entrepreneurship, see entrepreneurship as a viable career path, are able to take an idea and develop it into a viable opportunity, understand the value proposition of the Foundation and E2, as well as value the culture of community and collaboration. Furthermore, their entrepreneurial mindset development curriculum is disseminated via the AGOF Online Campus.
- Deepening the understanding of Entrepreneurship: In addition to financial and academic support, each candidate is allocated a Personal Development Officer, helping them get to grips with the transition into a new environment; an Entrepreneurial Leadership Officer, who probes them to flex their entrepreneurial muscles; as well as an industry mentor, who deepens their understanding of entrepreneurial traits and concepts in the working world.
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Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 60% in Pure Mathematics OR a minimum of 80% in Mathematical Literacy for final grade 11 results
- Minimum average of 70% for final Grade 11 results (excluding Life Orientation)
- Applicant must be under the age of 21 in the year of their application
- Applicant must be a South African citizen
- Intention to study towards a Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities, Arts & Health Science (Excluding Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry) degree at WITS, UJ, UCT, NMU, RU, UWC, SU, UP, UFS or UKZN
FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME
The 2023 first-year university campaign is closed for public applications. Each university will have the opportunity to nominate entrepreneurially minded first-year students who meet the Foundation’s first requirements listed below to apply.
- Must currently be in their 1st year of study (extended degree programmes welcome)
- Currently studying toward a degree in the following faculties:
- Arts
- Humanities
- Law
- Science
- Commerce
- Engineering
- Health Science (excluding Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Sciences)
- Currently enrolled at the following institutions:
- WITS University
- University of Pretoria
- University of Johannesburg
- University of the Free State
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rhodes University
- TSiBA
- University of the Western Cape
- Stellenbosch University
- University of Cape Townity
- Must have an academic average of 65% after the first semester of 2024
- Turning no older than 22 years in 2024
Dates
Deadline: May 05, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
What the Fellowship Covers
- Applicants with a combined annual household income of R1 million (R1 000 000.00) and below will receive full funding. Applicants with a combined annual household income of above R1 million (R1 000 000.00) will receive needs-based funding. Potential funding will be communicated at the interview stage.
- Applicants with a combined household income above R1 million will receive needs-based funding
- Potential funding will be communicated at interview stage
- Speakers and seminars
- Experiential exercises
- Workshops
- Access to business incubation
- Access to business/venture funding via E Squared, an Allan Gray Orbis Foundation sister entity (available to students on IVC programme and graduates depending on business idea viability)
- Personal Leadership Officer (mentorship)
- Industry mentor
- Like-minded community
- Tertiary qualification
- Responsible thinking and entrepreneurial mindset
- Well-rounded individual
- Community-orientated learning
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