Deadline: 15-May-22
Nominations are now open for the Social Impact Award Slovakia 2022 to help young social innovators build their business.
The Social Impact Award is an international educational and incubation program aimed at supporting social innovators with ideas at an early stage of development. Their goal is to raise awareness of social entrepreneurship through events and workshops, provide young people with the necessary skills and develop their ideas from unclear intentions to prosperous businesses, and thus strengthen the community of young social innovators in Slovakia.
The Social Impact Award program was established in 2009 and is organized annually in 15+ countries in Europe, Central Asia and Africa. To date, SIA has stood by more than 800 teams, organized more than 1,200 workshops and was attended by over 37,000 young people from around the world.
Benefits
- Inspiration: They inspire young people with examples of their peers who have started a socially beneficial business.
- Education: They teach how to recognize a good idea, create a business model and present tools on how to start a socially beneficial business idea.
- Networking: They look for talented young people and connect them with mentors, entrepreneurs or investors who can move their business further.
- Inkubovanie: The best projects await start-up capital and a three-month incubation program full of consultations and tailor-made workshops.
Criteria
- The project is in the early stages of development, and team members must be born between 1992 and 2007
- Individuals and teams can apply, while at least one member of the team must have a permanent residence in Slovakia.
- In the past, the applicant did not participate in the incubation part of the SIA program, nor did he / she receive the SIA award in previous years with the same idea, and at the same time did not obtain financial support or financial income before 1 January 2021.
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