Youth Ecopreneur Programme 2025 ($100,000 Seed funding) – YOA

Deadline: September 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Youth Ecopreneur Programme 2025. The Youth Ecopreneur Programme (YECO) is a worldwide accelerator that powers the inexperienced and simply transition by investing in younger entrepreneurs as catalysts for sustainable growth, environmental justice, and local weather motion advocacy. The undertaking seeks to boost the competitiveness and scale of youth-led inexperienced companies, with a robust concentrate on land restoration.

Through a Global Bootcamp, Accelerator, and Youth Ecopreneur Awards, it gives complete help, together with coaching, mentorship, and monetary help, to youth-led inexperienced companies.

The programme is powered by the ITC and the G20 Global Land Initiative/UNCCD in partnership with WIPO, Sidley Austin LLP, and Google Startup for Sustainable Development. The 5-yr programme is designed as a multi-stakeholder initiative that permits ITC tasks and companions to choose-in, leveraging and scaling throughout the current construction. The acceleration program onboards new individuals yearly.

Benefits

• Capacity-building for scaling your enterprise
• Seed Funding (shared pool of $100,000 USD for the land-restoration cohort in complete, fairness free)
• Access to a Global Network & Exposure
• Mentorship & Coaching
• Legal and IP Guidance
• Preferential entry to Pro-Bono Legal Services from Sidley Austin
• Preferential entry to the Google StartUp for Sustainable Development Programme
• All-Expenses-Paid Trip to International Conference for Award Finalists
• Win the Youth Ecopreneur Award and get 10,000 USD prize cash (1 Award per class)

Eligibility

Applicant have to be:

• Must be below the age of 35 (by the application deadline);
• Must be Founder, Co-Founder or CEO.

Eligible companies have to be:

• Legally registered and majority-run by an adolescent;
• The bootcamp is open globally, the accelerator is reserved for eligible international locations;
• Focused on Land Restoration or Green Business options.

Application

Application deadline is September 14, 2025. Late purposes is not going to be thought of.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Youth Ecopreneur Programme.