Swedish Institute Impact Pioneers 2025: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurship (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Are you devoted to nurturing and rising your native ecosystem for Climate Tech entrepreneurship? The Swedish Institute Impact Pioneers 2025 is a management programme that welcomes you to trade experiences with a world community of friends and acquire firsthand insights and expertise from Sweden’s most profitable Climate Tech entrepreneurship leaders and environments. The programme runs throughout 8 weeks, mixing weekly on-line periods with a one-week onsite summit in Stockholm in October 2025.

Impact Pioneers’25 affords contributors the OPPORTUNITY to:

• Grow from the trade of experiences with a world neighborhood of friends.
• Be supported and impressed by new insights from the Climate Tech Entrepreneurship and Innovation forefront, resembling sensible circumstances, instruments and frameworks.
• Get first-hand expertise of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Stockholm and Sweden, recognised as one of many main ecosystems within the influence entrepreneurship area.
• Build lengthy-time period relations with Swedish overseas missions in addition to Swedish entrepreneurs and organisations that search to increase worldwide attain, progress and influence.

Costs

The Swedish institute arranges and covers prices associated to:

• Learning programme
• Flights to and from Sweden for the Sweden week onsite go to
• Accommodation, meals, transportation and insurance coverage whereas in Sweden

**With the exception of Saudi contributors who carry their very own prices for flights and lodging

Eligibility

Open to entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners who work in organizations and networks that wish to develop their assist for entrepreneurs with companies associated to sustainablility and inexperienced transition. More specifially, they think about candidates to work as:

• Startup hub/accelerator/incubation founders and managers
• Tech and innovation hub founders and managers
• University accelerator/incubator managers
• Public sector staff concerned in work that helps Climate Tech entrepreneurship

Applicants should meet the next necessities:

• Be a citizen and resident of one of many 26 programme nations
• Work in an organisation or enterprise systematically working to nurture and develop entrepreneurs.
• Have the mandate to develop new worldwide partnerships in your organisation/enterprise.
• Have working information of each written and spoken English.
• Be keen to actively take part, present assist and share their expertise and information with different contributors.
• Have recognized alternatives and challenges that may very well be labored on through the programme to assist their organisation enhance its contribution to the native Climate Tech entrepreneurship ecosystem

An applicant’s home organisation/enterprise should additionally meet the next necessities:

• Be domestically owned and primarily based in one of many programme nations.
• Be by some means internet hosting/teaching (or be within the technique of beginning up internet hosting/teaching of) entrepreneurs with enterprise concepts which are associated to sustainability and inexperienced transition.
• Run the group/enterprise with give attention to contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Eligible Countries

In 2025, the application is open to 26 programme nations (candidates have to be a citizen and resident of one in every of them):

• AFRICA: Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
• ASIA: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
• EUROPE: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia**, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine*, Türkiye
• MENA: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia***

*Ukrainian candidates who reside outdoors of Ukraine are additionally eligible to apply.
**Governmental staff in Georgia are usually not eligible to apply.
***Participants from Saudi Arabia carry their very own prices for flights and lodging, provided that Saudi Arabia just isn’t part of Swedish growth cooperation funding agreements.

Application

The application consists of inquiries to assess formal necessities together with private motivation. You can even be requested to submit a 60-120 second video and add your most up-to-date resume/CV.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Impact Pioneers.