APEA, African Preservice Education Association
Talent pipeline & internships

Skilled young people, matched to the industries that need them.

Youth skilling programmes and internship matching that connect pre-professional youth to high-growth industries, including technology, energy and economic development.

For students and graduates

Find a placement

  • Internships and work-based learning placements with partners in growing green and digital sectors
  • Youth Policy Prize winners get a three-month internship with a partner in their track, with a stipend paid by the host
  • Each AFSI 2027 Pathfinders venture commits to at least two work-based learning placements in the 12 months after the Indaba
  • Entrepreneurship support and incubation through the EEES pillar

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For employers

Host an intern

  • Pre-vetted, critically skilled young people for your internship, learnership or graduate programme
  • Customised skilling programmes designed around the roles you can't fill
  • A seat in the AFSI 2027 Employer Engagement and Work-Integrated Learning working group
  • Help with structuring placements that count towards your skills development goals

Host interns

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The pillar behind it

Educator Entrepreneurship & Economic Systems.

EEES

Educator Entrepreneurship & Economic Systems

To address high joblessness among skilled youth and create alternative career pathways for highly educated professionals in an AI-driven economy.

  • Run start-up incubators for educational and social enterprise development, for educators and pre-professional youth.
  • Develop entrepreneurship curricula aligned with the green political economy and the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions.
  • Manage internship matching that connects skilled pre-professional youth to high-growth industries, including technology, energy and economic development.
  • Drive the commercialisation of APEA's intellectual property, so research and curriculum outputs fund the Association's work.

About this pillar

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Tell us about yourself.

Share your field of study, the sector you want to work in and where you are based. We'll be in touch as placements open.