Women of the Future Program

year, Eramet and Women In Africa join forces to set up a hub in Gabon open to 30 women entrepreneurs who are rigorously selected by WIA. The first promotion will form a full acceleration training, mentoring, and access to funding sources.

The Hub Women of Avenir aims to allow a selection of Gabonese women entrepreneurs to benefit from dedicated support including training, mentoring, and access to finance.

This hub is the materialization of the commitment of WIA and Eramet to create dynamic and innovative ecosystems in Africa through female entrepreneurship.

The Future Women Hub, The first of its kind in Libreville will also be a place to host events to highlight and promote, throughout the year, Gabonese women’s entrepreneurship.

Through this program, we wish to contribute to the development of a community of local innovators, who bring solutions to the many challenges facing Africa, In particular with regard to innovation and new technologies, Fintech, agricultural transformation; and to make business models viable and sustainable.

Program details

The Future Women program will take place in phases:

First, a call for applications launched in early May 2022 to all women entrepreneurs

After selecting 30 winners from our first promotion, the program will start with training sessions that will cover technical topics and topics ” Soft skills ” Such as writing a business plan or speaking in public. Women entrepreneurs will also be trained at the entrepreneurial pitch and will receive all the necessary keys to access funding. As a result of this training phase, a selection of winners will be presented to a panel of investors during virtual roadshows and will be accompanied by the introduction of bank financing research. Recipients will have the opportunity to be accompanied by the best experts

Subsequently, Gabonese women entrepreneurs will be connected to a dedicated mentor who will accompany them to support in their projects, with consistency and goodwill.

Throughout the program, women entrepreneurs will also have visibility on social networks in WIA.

Call for applications

The call for applications will run from May 3, 2022, to May 25, 2022 at midnight of Libreville.

Candidates must fill out the application form with two types of entries:

• personal information.
• company information.

The Women In Africa team will perform a rigorous selection according to the project’s:

• motivational
• advanced
• potential criteria

Eligibility criteria

• The company created or managed by a Gabonese woman
• First traction on the market (turnover, number of users and/or customers, funds raised, etc.)

Project selection criteria:

• Proven business model scalability
• Growth potential
• Ambitious team with a strong ability to execute
• Innovative product, service or technology is a plus
• Potential impact in Africa