Community - HOPin Academy

Our Community

Given our nearly decade long experience working with young people all over Ghana and primarily in Northern Ghana, we have developed a community of entrepreneurs, idealists, strategists, government policy influencers et al, Find below our communities.

Communities

A.I Community

Our Artificial Intelligence community consists of young people who are interested in leveraging on A.I to develop unique solutions that can solve some of their societal challenges. They have regular physical meet-ups at our space.

IoT Community

Internet of Things is an emerging technology in Northern Ghana and the interest in that domain has spiked over the last few couple of years. Aside our annual bootcamps where we train young people on this technology, we also host a community of IoT enthusiasts who have formed a community to learn, share and develop solutions using IoT.

Entrepreneurs Community

Everything we do at HOPin revolves around entrepreneurship. As a result, we have fostered the development of Agri-preneurs, Tech-preneurs etc and have brought them together to form a general entrepreneur community where they can collectively learn and share new ideas in the entrepreneur space, invite relevant persons for regular workshops etc.

E-Waste Community

E-waste is a global canker and in our bid to develop solutions in reducing it, we have a community of innovators and entrepreneurs who meet occasionally at our space to develop innovative ideas on upcycling E-waste and e-waste advocacy.

Design Community

There is a huge market for design and day in day out new tools are developed to make the process easier. Our community of designers focus on designing projects including User Interface Design for web and mobile for some of our startups and corp-orates as well.

SME COMMUNITY

Our SME community are made up of small and medium business owners as well as startups in the region. They are primarily focused on strengthening the SME space through collaborations and partnerships and also, as a body effectively lobbying for policy change and create and investment pool.

Incubation Timeline

March 2014

2014 Cohort

12 Applicants

Selected and Trained 10

Supported 10 with seed funding

March 2015

2015 Cohort

23 Applicants

Selected and Trained 20

Supported 10 with Seed Funding

March 2016

2016 Cohort

30 Applicants

Selected and Trained 15

Supported 5 with seed funding

March 2017

2017 Cohort

44 Applicants

Selected and Trained 10

Supported 5 with seed funding

April 2018

2018 Cohort

48 Applicants

Trained 17

Supported 4 with seed funding.

November 2019

2019 Cohort

55 Applicants

Trained 14

Supported 7 with seed Funding

How to Support the Incubator Program and Our Communities

We're open to partnerships and collaborations to support more entrepreneurs in our incubator program and also support our communities in their quest for sharing knowledge.

Mail: info@hopinacademy.org / hopinincubator2@gmail.com
Number: 00233-240466923/ 00233-2372028925
Location: Tamale, Ghana, West Africa.

Bank Name: Zenith Bank
Bank account Name: HOPin Academy.
Bank Account number: 6011107779
Bank swift code or IBAN : ZEBLGHAC