World Bank Group Youth Summit Pitch Competition 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 11, 2026

Applications are open for the World Bank Group Youth Summit Pitch Competition 2026. This is a worldwide OPPORTUNITY for younger innovators and entrepreneurs to showcase daring, impactful options to right now’s most urgent improvement challenges. Open to people and groups aged 18–35 from all over the world, this occasion gives a singular platform to current your concepts to a world viewers and speed up your journey from idea to influence.

As a flagship initiative of the Youth Summit, the Pitch Competition highlights the facility of youth-led entrepreneurship in driving job creation, inclusive progress, and sustainable improvement. Each 12 months, the occasion brings collectively younger change-makers, technical consultants, and world leaders to discover how modern concepts can translate into actual-world options.

Thematic Focus

While the Pitch Competition welcomes concepts from all sectors and backgrounds, members are inspired to show how their options leverage entrepreneurship to contribute to the Summit’s broader mission of job creation, in addition to advancing schooling and abilities, and agriculture.

Projects could align with a number of of the Summit’s thematic areas, whereas additionally showcasing cross-reducing views akin to know-how and innovation, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries (FCV), and financing methods.

Benefits

• The Pitch Competition is designed to supply younger innovators with a structured, excessive-high quality pitching expertise on a worldwide stage. Beyond the competitors itself, members acquire invaluable publicity to a world viewers and the chance to sharpen how they current their concepts.
• Finalists will obtain pitching teaching and mission suggestions from World Bank and associate technical advisors, and can current their tasks throughout the World Bank Group Youth Summit 2026 hosted at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
• Winners will obtain tailor-made mentoring from IFC consultants, masking areas akin to enterprise modeling, market evaluation, and context-particular suggestions. Travel help could also be supplied for one consultant per finalist group, topic to eligibility and visa necessities.

Eligibility

• Participants have to be 18–35 years outdated all through the occasion (born on or after 13 June 1990, and on or earlier than 13 June 2008)
• Open to people or groups of as much as 5 members
• All members have to be nationals of World Bank Group member nations
• Solutions should show innovation, influence potential, and scalability

Application

Detailed submission necessities, together with the application kind, pitch deck, and video pitch are outlined instantly inside the on-line submission kind. Applicants are inspired to rigorously evaluate all directions earlier than submitting to make sure compliance with competitors standards.

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For extra data, go to World Bank Group Youth Summit Pitch Competition.