Apple is inviting would-be developers and entrepreneurs to apply for one of 400 free places at this year’s Apple Developer Academy.
Open to students from anywhere in the world, tuition is fully sponsored by Apple, with no cost to students – who also receive a free Mac and iPhone, along with support for their living expenses in Naples, Italy …
Apple first announced the initiative early in 2016, referencing it then as its first iOS App Development Center for Europe. In July the same year, it confirmed that it would be partnering with the Università di Napoli Federico II, and opened applications for tutors.
The inaugural program opened in October 2016 with 200 students. The class graduated in June of last year.
Apple told us today that it has now opened its application process for new students for the coming year.
One of the current students described the program as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Apple says that the new intake will mean some 1000 students will have been trained at the Academy by the summer of 2019, with an additional option offered for the first time to this year’s intake.
Apple says that places are offered to those with and without existing coding or computer science skills.
You can apply online between now and June 8. Apple will review the online applications and then invite the most promising applicants to take a test and attend an interview in Naples, London, Munich or Paris.
