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Creating Your First Program

Learn how to create your first Program and launch initiatives within your Platform.

I. What is a Program?

A Program is a specific call for applications, challenge, award, hackathon, hiring intake or initiative. Each program has its own content page, rounds, forms, evaluators and timeline.

Best Practices

  • Create a separate program for each project or event (for example one innovation competition under your "Innovation" platform).

  • Tailor the rounds, forms, judging and timeline to your goals.

  • Run several programs at once across platforms without them affecting each other.

II. How to Create a New Program

  1. Open your platform: on your dashboard, go to the right Workspace and click Manage on the platform.

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2. Create the program: click Programs in the top navigation bar, then + New Program. A draft called "New Program (Draft)" is created straight away with a first round, and its page opens so you can set it up.

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Tip: the programs list has Home, Ongoing, Completed, Archived and Trash tabs. Each card's ⋯ menu has Archive, Publish, Clone, Feature, Hide from participants and Remove.

III. Setting Up the Program (Content Tab → About)

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  1. Program Title: replace "New Program (Draft)" with your title.

  2. Program Slug: the part of the web address after your platform domain.

  3. Program details: the About section title, description and main image.

  4. Type: for example competition, hackathon, award or accelerator. See the Program Types guide.

  5. Tags: add sector tags for categorisation.

  6. Visibility:
    • Public: anyone with the link
    • Logged-In Users: registered users only
    • Invited Only: people you invite
    • Private Domains: people with specific email domains

  7. Countdown and display options: set the Countdown date (usually the submission deadline), and choose whether to show submission and view counts, disable chat, send weekly roundup emails, allow applications without an account, or use a custom program URL.

  8. Click Save Content.

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IV. Program Header Controls

At the top right of the program page you'll find the publish switch (Draft ↔ Published), View, Direct Application URL (copy the apply link), Button Label Settings (rename Apply Now and other buttons), Archive and Delete. Use Analytics for the program dashboard and + New Round to add rounds.

What's Next?

Now set up your workflow and customise the content.

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