L’Oréal Groupe Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Programme 2025 for SMEs worldwide. – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline:  30 September 2025.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 L’Oréal Groupe Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Programme. L’Oréal Groupe, the world’s main magnificence firm, paves the best way for a extra sustainable future in in search of, advancing and scaling pioneering options by way of a Sustainable Innovation Accelerator programme.

Building on its long-standing tradition of innovation L’Oréal companions with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)’s Canopy innovation consultants to scout, establish, pilot, and scale breakthrough applied sciences addressing essential resolution gaps inside the trade in assist of its sustainability transformation.

Requirements

The prorgram is in search of deployment-ready sustainability innovation from startups, scaleups, SMEs and established corporations from around the globe, at TRL 7 or larger, that align with a number of of the seven key innovation areas outlined beneath:

• Sustainable and inclusive enterprise fashions 
• Low-carbon, climate-smart applied sciences
• Water resilience options
• Nature-based options
• Alternative substances and supplies
• Eliminating fossil plastic use and plastic waste 
• Circularity and useful resource administration

Benefits

Successful candidates will be a part of an as much as 12-month programme that features: 

• A 12-week group acceleration assist delivered by CISL innovation staff, targeted on pilot readiness.
• Up to 12 hours of 1:1 mentoring and training from world sustainability, innovation and trade leaders.
• In-person or digital peer-learning periods.
• The potential alternative to co-develop pilot initiatives with L’Oréal*, together with, if relevant, the potential alternative for business settlement or funding.
• Leveraging CISL’s sustainability experience and L’Oréal’s main cosmetics trade place. 

Application Timeline:

• Applications: Opens 23 June and closes 30 September 2025.
• Cohort choice: November 2025
• Tailored acceleration and mentoring: Starts November 2025 – closes February 2026
• Execution of pilots, if relevant: Starts February 2026 (anticipated 6 to 9 months)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the L’Oréal Groupe Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Programme