[Friday 17th February, 2023—Lagos, Nigeria] Co-Creation Hub today announced a new partnership
with the Mastercard Foundation under the Mastercard Foundation Ed-Tech Fellowship Program.
Through the collaboration, Co-Creation Hub is launching an accelerator program to support and
amplify the impact of 36 EdTech startups in Nigeria over the next 3 years. Selected Ed-Tech startups
will receive funding and advisory services towards scaling their current operations for further impact.
The partnership is part of the broader Mastercard Foundation Ed-Tech Fellowship Program, which
seeks to support Ed-Tech companies across Africa that are addressing learning challenges across K-12,
tertiary education, and in vocational training. The expectation is that these solutions will be part of the
urgent and critical response in addressing many of Africa’s long standing challenges that have affected
enrollment, quality and availability of effective educational options for the continent’s young
population.
Co-Creation Hub has now launched a call for s applications to its accelerator program, and successful
participants will go through rounds of screening to determine fit for solutions and founders before
being further assessed for scalability and long term potential. The partners are also encouraging
female-led startups to apply. Interested organizations can apply through the Co-Creation Hub website:
In addition to initial funding to the selected startups, CcHub will be providing dedicated expert teams
to support participants in product development, government relations, pedagogy and learning science.
CcHub remains committed to increasing prosperity across the continent through increased adoption
of technology and innovation even as the foundation seeks a world where everyone has the
opportunity to learn and prosper.
Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) launc
hed Nigeria’s first open living lab for technologists, entrepreneurs,
tech companies, investors and hackers in 2010 to accelerate the application of social capital and
technology for economic prosperity. The hub has since expanded to include an umbrella of
pan-African innovation enablers that includes the CcHUB Design Lab in Rwanda iHub and eLimu in
Kenya, Growth Capital by CcHUB and CcHub Syndicate. All CcHUB companies contribute to
stimulating innovation and technology application towards achieving social impact across diverse
sectors including education, public health, digital security and governance.
The Mastercard Foundation works with visionary organizations to enable young people in Africa and
in Indigenous communities in Canada to access dignified and fulfilling work. It is one of the largest
private foundations in the world with a mission to advance learning and promote financial inclusion to
create an inclusive and equitable world. It was established in 2006 through the generosity of
Mastercard when it became a public company. The Foundation is an independent organization, and its
policies, operations, and program decisions are determined by its own Board of Directors and senior
leadership team. It is a registered Canadian charity with offices in Toronto, Kigali, Accra, Nairobi,
Kampala, Lagos, Dakar, and Addis Ababa.
