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Empowering SMEs in Northern Ghana: The NEIP Startup Acceleration Program in Tamale by HOPin Academy

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), in collaboration with HOPin Academy embarked on the startup Acceleration Program in Tamale, a groundbreaking initiative designed to nurture the growth and success of SMEs across the various regions in Ghana. The NEIP Startup Acceleration Program is an initiative under the Ghana Economic Transformation Project (GETP) with support […]

HOPin Academy Partners with ProjeKt Inspire to Replicate their Project STEM Park (Science Centre) in Ghana, Northern Region

PRESS RELEASE 5th July 2023. HOPin Academy Partners with ProjeKt Inspire to Replicate their Project STEM Park (Science Centre) in Ghana, Northern Region HOPin Academy has formed a transformative partnership with ProjeKt Inspire, a Social Enterprise that operates in Tanzania with the mission to improve the quality of STEAM Education. The partnership will allow HOPin […]

HOPin Incubation Program The HOPin Academy Incubation Program 2022 is an initiative of HOPin Academy, in partnership with Bidrag til Ghana (BtG) and has been in operation since the year 2014. Each year, the Academy hosts 2 cohorts of the incubation training that are rolled out for young entrepreneurs in the Northern Region, who are […]

Buɣim Chuɣu (Fire Festival) in Dagbon

Buɣim Chuɣu (Fire Festival) in Dagbon || HOPin ACADEMY  The Buɣim Festival among the people of Dagbon in Northern Ghana is one of the most important holidays well known among Dagombas, Gonja, Mamprusi, and Nanumba, all living in the Northern part of Ghana. The fire festival in the Dagbanli language is called “Bugum Chugu.  It is […]

UPshift, a Pathway to Self Employment and Community Development Leveraging Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation.

HOPin Academy in collaboration with UNICEF Ghana and Generation Unlimited has launched the UPshift Program in three (3) regions of the North of Ghana which is,  Northern Region (Tamale), Savanna Region (Damango), and North East Region (Walewale).   The overall objective of this project is to support 200 adolescents and youth in these areas with marketable […]

Applications Open for the Empower Social Entrepreneurship Program

  Ready to create a valuable solution for positive change?  You’re invited to participate in the Empower Social Entrepreneurship Training Program June 22 – July 1, 2021  Learn how to: Identify and create new opportunities Develop a business proposal Deliver value to the Tamale community The Empower Social Entrepreneurship training program will help you learn […]

Open Applications for UNICEF Startup Lab 2021

UNICEF and its partners, including MeltWater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and HOPin Academy, are excited to welcome twenty young startups into the second cohort of the UNICEF Startup Lab beginning February 2021. This six-month program will accelerate startups with innovative, open-source, and market-driven solutions addressing complex problems that impact children and young people in […]

PAPERLESS ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM (PAS): Creating a Reliable System for Storing and Retrieving Information in Ghana

Ghana Tech Lab in partnership with HOPin Academy organized a six-week intensive training on web development. Mumuni Rahama Mbanba and Ibrahim Rahima were fortunate to go through this training to become full-stack web developers. With the skills they acquired through this training, they decided to solve a problem in their community by harnessing technology. In […]

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