Swedish Institute’s Impact Pioneers Leadership Programme 2025: Enabling Climate Tech entrepreneurship (Fully Funded to Stockholm Sweden)

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Appication Deadline: April 30, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Swedish Institute’s Impact Pioneers Leadership Programme. Impact Pioneers ’25 is a management programme that units out to convene leaders and enablers working in organisations and networks in search of to promote the nurture and development of native entrepreneurship and innovation. The programme takes a place to begin within the thought that entrepreneurship is a key driver of each financial and social growth, in addition to a pressure that may assist speed up the worldwide inexperienced transition. The thematic focus of 2025 is ‘Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurship’, with ‘Climate Tech’ referring to applied sciences developed and used with the express goal to assist individuals, governments and others each tackle the sources and impacts of local weather change.

Are you devoted to nurturing and rising your native ecosystem for Climate Tech entrepreneurship? Impact Pioneers ’25 a management programme that welcomes you to alternate experiences with a world community of friends and achieve first hand 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.

Eligibility Requirements

The application is open to entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners who work in organizations and networks that need to develop their assist for entrepreneurs with companies associated to sustainablility and inexperienced transition. More specifially, we 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

In 2025, the application is open to 26 programme nations (candidates have to be a citizen and resident of certainly one 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***

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 a very good working information of each written and spoken English.
• Be keen to actively take part, present assist and share their expertise and information with different members.
• Have recognized Opportunities and challenges that could possibly 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 one way or the other internet hosting/teaching (or be within the strategy of beginning up internet hosting/teaching of) entrepreneurs with enterprise concepts which can be associated to sustainability and inexperienced transition.
• Run the group/enterprise with give attention to contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Programme construction and format

Commitment and expectations
Impact Pioneers ’25 is scheduled to run throughout 8 weeks throughout fall 2025. A ultimate schedule and timeline shall be supplied upon acceptance to the programme.

• Participants must be ready to spend round two hours per week in on-line actions corresponding to collaborating in sharing periods and dealing a private Impact Journey undertaking.
• As a participant, you must also give you the chance to be part of the one week summit onsite in Stockholm in October, actual dates TBD.

Benefits

Participation in Impact Pioneers 25 is freed from cost**.
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 members who carry their very own prices for flights and lodging. 

Programme parts:

1. Online networking, sharing and masterclass periods 
   Networking, sharing and masterclass periods shall be performed on-line in each massive and small group codecs (organised by area and blended). Other than the social aspect, they’ll embody case sharing and high-quality masterclasses, highlighting newest developments throughout the subject of Climate Tech entrepreneurship and innovation, sustainable growth and inexperienced transition. These periods goal to supply members new community, views, instances, instruments and frameworks.
2. Sweden week, onsite October 2025 (dates TBD)
   During this week, programme members will collect in Stockholm, Sweden. The week shall be an interactive and immersive onsite expertise, providing a singular alternative to community with friends and have interaction with Swedish Climate Tech entrepreneurship leaders and specialists. The week will function workshops, subject visits to main innovation hubs and influence entrepreneurship environments in Stockholm. This expertise goals to strengthen members’ Climate Tech entrepreneurship community, and create new connections with the Swedish entrepreneurship ecosystem. Participation in Sweden week is unique to members who’ve efficiently accomplished the programme’s earlier parts.
3. Way ahead. In the ultimate element of Impact Pioneers ’25, members make a plan on how to put their new expertise and community into motion. They share new views, instances, instruments and frameworks with colleagues and stakeholders of their native ecosystems, develop concepts for future partnerships throughout the worldwide peer group and set up additional relationships with the Swedish embassy and associated community of their home nation.

Programme Timeline

• mid June: Acceptance letter without any consideration members
• late June: Online Kick-off
• August: weekly on-line exercise/periods start
• October (dates TBD): 1 week onsite expertise in Stockholm, Sweden
• October/November: Closing session (collaboration/alternate to proceed in different methods)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Swedish Institute’s Impact Pioneers Leadership Programme