Deadline: 1-Mar-22
BOOST: Women Innovators is an open call for innovative and/or tech-driven ideas that can bring down structural barriers and have a lasting positive impact on the lives of women and girls in Europe and Central Asia.
In the wake of COVID-19, digital technology has become a lifeline for millions around the world, and a critical tool to cope with the crisis. But as they embrace digital transformation and new technologies to propel them forward, the widening gender digital divide is impacting women’s socio-economic opportunities in a wide range of fields – from healthcare and education to work and financial independence.
They invite women-led or owned startups, SMEs, social enterprises, non-profits, and academic institutions to apply for their BOOST regional acceleration program with innovative ideas that seek to bridge the gender divide in three key thematic areas.
Funding Information
Over 20 innovating organizations will be selected to participate in the BOOST regional acceleration program, from which four will be awarded grants of USD $10,000 upon graduation.
What they’re looking for?
- Women and digital access and use: Innovations that help bridge the gender digital divide, enabling women and girls to equally access and use digital technologies – from creating affordable tech and enhancing digital literacy skills to tackling gender stereotypes.
- Women in the digital economy and STEM: Innovations that help increase women’s active participation in digitally transformed economies and STEM or boost opportunities for women to be creators/drivers of innovation – for instance by leveraging the amplifying effect of emerging technologies, or by facilitating access to affordable finance.
- Women in data: Innovations that can help close the gendered data gap, using gender-sensitive data – data specific to women – to improve research, planning, design, monitoring in urban planning, transportation, policy, design, manufacturing, and other fields.
Eligibility Criteria
- Type of applicant: Academic institutions, Non-profits, SMEs, Startups
- List of eligible countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
For more information, visit https://boostimpact.org/challenges/boost-women-innovators-europe-and-central-asia/