BeChangeMaker Social Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for Young Innovators – YOA

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Calling all younger innovators! Do you’ve got a enterprise thought that may deliver constructive change to your group? BeChangeMaker 2025 is now open for purposes!

BeChangeMaker is an annual on-line coaching programme offering instruments and know-how for startup acceleration, devoted teaching, mentoring and customised help, in addition to the OPPORTUNITY to faucet into a various international community of potential supporters and traders. Be part of the options for reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

BeChangeMaker offers entry to prime quality studying content material on HP LIFE, instruments and know-how for startup acceleration, devoted teaching, mentoring and customised help, in addition to the chance to faucet into a various international community of potential supporters and traders.

About the Programme

BeChangeMaker, an initiative by WorldSkills and the HP Foundation, supported by UNESCO-UNEVOC, permits expert younger folks to develop modern enterprise concepts that tackle social and environmental challenges. The programme welcomes UNIDO, PEN Worldwide, and the Yunus Environment Hub as new companions this 12 months. Now in its ninth version, BeChangeMaker has empowered lots of of younger folks from world wide to advertise group growth and contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Taking place from June to October, the 30 chosen groups will acquire entry to HP LIFE’s excessive-high quality studying assets, designed particularly for entrepreneurs, enterprise homeowners, college students, and lifelong learners worldwide. Through devoted teaching, mentoring, and entry to a world community of potential supporters and traders, individuals will acquire the data and confidence to make an actual difference.

As the course progresses, the highest 5 groups will probably be chosen on the premise of two on-line pitches. The finalists will then showcase their concepts stay at WorldSkills General Assembly 2025 in Croatia to a world viewers for the chance to win money prizes.

Benefits

• BeChangeMaker offers entry to prime quality studying content material on HP LIFE, instruments and know-how for startup acceleration, devoted teaching, mentoring and customised help, in addition to the chance to faucet into a various international community of potential supporters and traders.
• From June to September, the excessive-high quality studying content material on HP LIFE tailor-made for entrepreneurs, enterprise homeowners, college students, and lifelong learners everywhere in the world will probably be made out there to the 30 groups chosen to take part within the programme.
• Along the best way, a sequence of on-line pitches will lead the highest 5 groups to current their social enterprise concepts in entrance of a world crowd on the forty seventh WorldSkills Competition this September in Lyon, France, and an opportunity to win money prizes.
• The high 5 groups will every obtain EUR 1,000 price of custom-made publish-programme coaching.
• The high three groups will every obtain EUR 2,000 money award to additional put money into their concepts.

Eligibility

• To apply, you possibly can be a part of alone or with a most of 4 different individuals as a workforce.
• You might want to discover individuals who share your imaginative and prescient. Teams ought to be of two to five folks, between 18 and 35 years outdated.
• Be receiving normal or vocational schooling and coaching or have completed normal or vocational schooling and coaching on the time of participation.
• If your enterprise thought can clear up international points, be a part of BeChangeMaker 2024 and make the world a greater place.

Application

If you’re between 18 and 35 years outdated and have a ardour for fixing social and environmental challenges via entrepreneurship, apply now and take your first step towards changing into a changemaker!

• Put collectively a workforce of as much as 5 folks and choose a workforce chief, or be a part of alone.
• Create a one-minute video introducing your workforce and venture. You can create the video utilizing your good cellphone, add it to Youtube as unlisted Video submit the video hyperlink to this discipline, so we will entry it.  Applications with out a video won’t be thought-about.
• Fill within the kind on the BeChangeMaker2025 web site and submit your application.

Don’t miss this chance to show your concepts into motion. Apply earlier than 31 May and begin your journey with BeChangeMaker 2025!

Click here to apply.

For extra info, go to BeChangeMaker.