Deadline: 30-Apr-21
Applications are now open for the 2021 Social Impact Award aimed at young social innovators who want to try solve current social or environmental problems in an innovative way by Establish projects, initiatives or organizations.
The ventures can be in different areas be located, such as poverty reduction, health, education, the environment, energy, information and communication technologies, human rights, equal opportunities, care and many others.
Award Information
There are two types of awards:
- Jury Awards: The 4 finalist ventures with the highest rating by the SIA jury are awarded EUR 1,500.00.
- Community Award: A finalist company will be awarded the Community Award of EUR 1,500.00. The decision is based on the results of the Community.
The 10 finalist Projects will receive
- Professional support through the incubation program of the Social Impact Award Germany from July to September
- Support in four areas worth over € 20,000 :
- Priorities : Mentoring, access to the “Experts for Change” pool of experts and your own incubation platform will take your project to the next level.
- Cohort : Learning from one another and exchanging experiences is an essential part of the incubation, especially in two seminars.
- Outreach : All teams take part in the global community voting and can thus generate momentum for their project.
- Add-ons : Possibility of membership in an Impact Hub in Germany
- Production of a short project video
- From the 10 finalists, 5 winning SIA 2021 projects will be selected. The winning projects will receive:
- 4 jury awards: € 1,500
- 1 Community Award: € 1,500
- Free participation in the SIA Summit with all SIA winning projects 2021 from all countries in which the Social Impact Award is active (participation is required, at least 1 participant per team)
Conditions
Participation in the Social Impact Award 2021 is subject to the following conditions:
- All core team members must be born between January 1, 1991 and December 31, 2006;
- The applicant has / have not participated in the SIA incubation or won the SIA in previous years with the same idea ;
- The ideas submitted in previous years, with the exception of previous finalists or winning projects, can be submitted again in 2021.
- Individuals / teams can apply with new ideas , even if they were selected as finalists or winners in previous years.
- The project was not legally established before January 1, 2020.
- Before the submission date, the idea did not receive any formalized monetary support from an external party in excess of € 3,000 (e.g. angel investment, scholarships, prize money, etc.).
- All formal criteria of the submission platform must be met for an evaluation of the project.
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