UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: October 21, 2025

Applications are open for the UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge 2025. This is a name to early and progress stage frontier tech begin-ups in rising economies. UNICEF is launching a name for options from rising markets in collaboration with India Health Fund (IHF), and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). To maximize influence, UNICEF will foster collaboration between early-stage frontier tech ventures and assist scale confirmed local weather adaptation options. This twin monitor strategy seeks to drive influence and supply lengthy-time period sustainability. 

They additionally invite worth-aligned companions to assist innovation challenges, design sprints and ship strategic technical help to construct better fairness and belief throughout technological options. 

Through this problem, they search to:  

• conduct a market mapping of child-centric local weather innovators working throughout rising markets
• create capability by providing mentorship and technical help from UNICEF Venture Fund specialists to chose begin-ups, enhancing their funding readiness and potential for future funding. This will comprise:
• 10 hours of technical mentoring consisting of open supply, enterprise improvement, frontier know-how, software program improvement and variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) mentorship
• further assist to grasp and navigate the UNICEF Venture Fund sourcing and choice course of
• spotlight investable options that display public good and market OPPORTUNITY

The UNICEF Venture Fund is especially looking for options that:      

• deal with challenges to speed up outcomes for kids
• are optimized for low-useful resource environments (e.g., low connectivity or restricted cellular entry)
• concentrate on decreasing, reasonably than widening, inequalities, delivering outcomes for various customers and communities
• can ship in a number of languages, together with native and fewer used languages 

Eligibility

Companies must fulfil the next obligatory choice standards to be thought of:

• be registered as a personal for-revenue firm
• be registered in a UNICEF programme nation (See the list of eligible countries here)
• have a working prototype or minimal viable product of the proposed answer, ideally, displaying promising outcomes
• be open supply or keen to be open supply
• have the potential to positively influence the lives of essentially the most susceptible youngsters
• generate publicly uncovered actual-time knowledge that’s measurable 

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to UNICEF.