L’Oréal Groupe Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Programme 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

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

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

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 group, centered on pilot readiness.
• Up to 12 hours of 1:1 mentoring and training from international sustainability, innovation and trade leaders.
• In-person or digital peer-studying classes.
• The potential OPPORTUNITY to co-develop pilot initiatives with L’Oréal, together with, if relevant, the potential alternative for industrial settlement or funding.
• Leveraging CISL’s sustainability experience and L’Oréal’s main cosmetics trade place. 

Eligibility

They are searching for deployment-prepared sustainability innovation from startups, scaleups, SMEs and established corporations from around the globe, at TRL 7 or greater, that align with a number of of the seven key innovation areas outlined beneath:

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

Application

Here are key dates:

• Application: 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)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Sustainable Innovation Accelerator.