Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge 2025 (US$50,000 in funding)

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Application Deadline:  11 April, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge. The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is launching the Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge to transform revolutionary city concepts which can be assembly resilience wants in informality contexts and scale them to sustainable concepts. The RISE Urban Challenge supplies customised help to maximise every initiative’s potential for impression and aligns potential funders to those initiatives and drive consideration to the pressing want for city methods transformation.

Requirements

• RISE is open to city entrepreneurs, innovators, organisations or consortiums of organisations throughout the non-public sector (start-ups, SMEs), and civil society and grassroots organisations based mostly in low- and middle-income nations.
• RISE encourage and welcome proposals from youth-led and women-led organisations.

Benefits

• Selected initiatives will obtain a tailor-made management and mentoring programme,  communications help, and be linked to traders.
• Subject matter specialists will facilitate a management academy for the chosen entrants.
• They may also be linked to potential traders and companions from GRP networks.
• Winners will be awarded prizes as much as US$50,000, which is able to help their scaling and implementation over 12 months as much as December 2026. 

Timeline:

1. Application deadline: 11 April 2025
2. Screening: The first part of screening might be finished to determine finalists that may proceed to the Leadership Academy and mentoring. Shortlisted initiatives might be introduced in  June 2025
3. Leadership Academy and tailor-made mentoring: June – September 2025
4. Announcement of ultimate winners:  November/December 2025
5. Winners’ exercise implementation:  through December 2026

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Resilience Innovation through Scaling Entrepreneurship (RISE) Urban Challenge