Tell us about yourself. A Community manager will help you to produce an engaging description of what you want to do and what help you need from peers and mentors to make it happen.. The easiest way is to follow the instructions here. If you have questions or need more support you can contact us via Facebook or email.

If you already have a project for which you want support, our community managers will engage the Edgeryders community to contribute input in comments. This includes thoughtful feedback to help you develop your ideas, information about relevant opportunities, connect you with their contacts, and share their own experiences and personal advice with you.

Peers Community managers engage the MENA YP community to contribute input with thoughtful feedback to help you develop your ideas, information about relevant opportunities, connect you with their contacts and share their own experiences and personal advice with you. You are encouraged to do the same for your peers.

Support team A team of mentors with relevant hands on experience are recruited from the Edgeryders community to assess your application. They provide constructive feedback on your project and team, what you need to focus on to move your project forward and what skills you should invest in developing.

Partner organisations offer reputable programs for supporting entrepreneurs at different levels of maturity, reach out and direct you to appropriate opportunites to support your next steps.

20 projects/applicants will be shortlisted by the Edgeryders staff and the mentors recruited from the community.

The project leaders and contributors for the selected projects will be invited to a series of 3 Video calls with mentors. Each call has a specific goal, output template and set of follow up tasks with well defined deliverables - as well as a budget proposal for each deliverable (there is an upper limit available to each selected project).

You will upload your completed deliverables/tasks onto the community platform. If they are condidered completed, a budget of up to 7000 Usd will be made available for the team’s work on the task as agreed with the edgeryders team.

Teams which have completed all the deliverables as approved and validated through an open evaluation process on the community platform, unlock the budget earmarked for each deliverable (contributors are compensated for their part of the work as defined in the pre-approved budget).

If your activity is not selected for the financing, it is because we feel that you need to develop either the project or your skills further. Our partner organisations that offer reputable programs for supporting entrepreneurs at different levels of maturity will reach out to you and direct you to appropriate opportunites to support your next steps.

Teams compose their final presentation of what they have done the form of a session for the Festival: (talk, moderated chat, webinar or workshop)

The festival acts as a shopfront to showcase the entrepreneurs and their projects: It engages participation of media, potential funders, investors, talent and necessary allies.

Final selected teams will be offer assistance to:

• Travel to the festival location, with all costs covered
• Attend the Festival
• Meet their peers and mentors to further develop their ideas
• Pitch their ideas to the Edgeryders community

Teams which have completed all the deliverables as approved and validated through an open evaluation process on the community platform, unlock resources earmarked for each deliverable (contributors are compensated for their part of the work as defined in the pre-approved budget).

The Edgeryders community will continue providing support through the platform and community calls.

Teams are invited to a one year residency fellowship in one of the innovation houses during which their rent and all living costs are covered by the program. So they can focus on building their company & revenues.

Each house has a support team and resources to support the work of the project teams on building their venture. The disbursement of which follows a similar process as that for the previous phase.

Each innovation house is developed, managed and co-owned locally by program participants.

* subject to securing funds for Swarmfund