Call for Proposals: Small Business Champions 2025 (Funded to Geneva) – YOA

Deadline: March 28, 2025

Are you a corporation that helps the round enterprise mannequin? Are you a non-governmental group that empowers small companies and entrepreneurs change into sustainable? Are you proudly owning a small enterprise implementing or wanting to scale sustainable improvements? Apply to change into a Small Business Champion 2025.

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 economic system.

With this competitors, your concepts is not going to solely increase consciousness amongst companies and policymakers of the variety and alternatives for a round economic system however may also promote finest practices in supporting the sustainability and resilience of small companies, and their participation in worldwide commerce by way of environment friendly, progressive and nil-waste enterprise fashions.

Benefits

• The winner(s) can 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 mission and subject an award certificates.
• Moreover, coaching and mentoring alternatives can be mentioned with every winner in accordance to their wants, whereas successful submissions can be promoted by ICC, ITC, UN Trade and Development and the WTO MSME Group by way of their communication channels.

Eligibility

• Proposals are open to small companies, enterprises, trade associations, chambers of commerce and non-governmental organizations.
• Applications ought to have a transparent hyperlink to worldwide commerce and embody an motion plan.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Small Business Champions.