METI UniPods AI Innovation Programme Cohort 2 2026

The METI UniPods AI Innovation Programme is an innovation and capacity-building programme for early-stage innovators working on AI and AI-enabled solutions. It provides structured technical, entrepreneurial, and mentorship support, including an MIT AI course, AI technical skilling, an entrepreneurship programme, mentorship, and access to a broader innovation network, with an in-person bootcamp possibility in Addis Ababa (Addis Ababa). The programme targets individuals or teams actively building AI solutions and emphasises real development over presentations, with no requirement for pitch decks.

Access to an MIT AI course, AI technical skilling, 14-week entrepreneurship programme, technical mentorship, access to the timbuktoo network, and potential participation in an in-person bootcamp in Addis Ababa.

Open to individual innovators, teams of innovators, developers and early-stage founders actively building AI solutions or AI-enabled products.

Submit an application for Cohort 2 (no pitch deck required); the focus is on actual work, code and concepts rather than presentations.