ICC-ITC-WTO MSME Group Small Business Champions Competition 2025

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Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 ICC-ITC-WTO MSME Group Small Business Champions Competition.
Are you a corporation that helps the round enterprise mannequin? Are you a non-governmental group that empowers small companies and entrepreneurs grow to be sustainable? Are you proudly owning a small enterprise implementing or eager to scale sustainable improvements?

Launched for the primary time in 2021, the World Trade Organization’s Informal Working Group of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, along with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Trade Centre (ITC), and this yr in partnership with UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), are calling for progressive concepts that assist small companies take part and contribute to the round financial system.

With this competitors, your concepts won’t solely elevate consciousness amongst companies and policymakers of the variety and Opportunities for a round financial system however may even promote greatest practices in supporting the sustainability and resilience of small companies, and their participation in worldwide commerce by means of environment friendly, progressive and zero-waste enterprise fashions.

Requirements

• Initiatives that may embrace awareness-raising campaigns, competitions, capability constructing, coaching, mentoring and networking programmes associated to the round financial system.
• Small companies energetic within the round financial system with an progressive enterprise idea that, by means of its operations, reduces, prevents or repurposes waste in equal typical enterprise fashions.
• Applications ought to have a transparent hyperlink to worldwide commerce and embrace an motion plan. To see examples from previous competitors winners, go to the MSME Group Small Business Champions website.

Award particulars

• The winner(s) will likely be invited to journey to Geneva for the award ceremony on 26 June 2025, sponsored by ICC and ITC. The International Trade Centre will moreover award every winner $4,000 prize cash to help the event or additional scaling of their successful venture and problem an award certificates.
• Moreover, coaching and mentoring Opportunities will likely be mentioned with every winner in accordance with their wants, whereas successful submissions will likely be promoted by ICC, ITC, UN Trade and Development and the WTO MSME Group by means of their communication channels.

How to submit proposals

Proposals are open to small companies, enterprises, trade associations, chambers of commerce and non-governmental organizations and must be submitted by 28 March 2025 through this on-line kind:

Small Business Champions 2025 – Formstack

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the ICC-ITC-WTO MSME Group Small Business Champions Competition