Swedish Institute Impact Pioneers – MENA 2026 (Funded to Stockholm, Sweden) – YOA

Deadline: March 24, 2026

Applications are open for the Swedish Institute Impact Pioneers – MENA 2026. Are you working to develop your native ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation? Do you consider in daring considering and cross-sector collaboration? Then Impact Pioneers MENA is for you. Connect with leaders and consultants from throughout the Middle East and North Africa and acquire first-hand insights from Sweden’s most profitable entrepreneurship environments.

Entrepreneurs are very important to the expansion and prosperity of communities. But they require methods and help to succeed at scale. How can we construct ecosystems that encourage and help entrepreneurs in tackling world challenges like local weather change?

Impact Pioneers is a worldwide platform for ecosystem leaders looking for to strengthen native entrepreneurship and innovation. The programme is each a management networking OPPORTUNITY and a collaboration accelerator, gathering affect-pushed leaders to discover new methods ahead.   

This yr’s MENA version will carry collectively 80 leaders and consultants who promote entrepreneurship and innovation that may speed up options to world local weather challenges. Join on-line and in Sweden to form the long run, collectively.

Benefits

Impact Pioneers ’26 MENA will provide you with:

• A singular alternative for collaboration and change with a regional neighborhood of friends, fostering a robust and enduring skilled community.
• Support and inspiration by new insights from the local weather entrepreneurship and innovation forefront, reminiscent of sensible circumstances, instruments and frameworks.
• First-hand expertise of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Stockholm and Sweden, recognised as one of many main ecosystems within the affect entrepreneurship area.
• An opportunity to construct lengthy-time period relations with Swedish overseas missions in addition to Swedish entrepreneurs and organisations.

Costs

Participation in Impact Pioneers is freed from cost. The Swedish Institute arranges and covers prices associated to: 

• Learning programme 
• Your flights to and from Stockholm    
• Your lodging and meals in Stockholm in the course of the on-web site assembly in Sweden 
• Your insurance coverage in the course of the on-web site assembly in Sweden    
• All coaching supplies on-line and on web site  

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be a citizen and resident of one of many following nations: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.
• Work in an organisation that nurtures and develop local weather entrepreneurship and innovation.   
• Have working information of each written and spoken English.  
• Be prepared to actively take part, present help, and share their expertise and information with different individuals.  
• Have recognized alternatives and challenges that could possibly be labored on in the course of the programme to assist their organisation enhance its contribution to the native local weather entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Application

These are the steps you want to undergo to submit your application  

• Register your profile in the application portal Dream Apply.
• Select what programme you want to to apply for (Impact Pioneers ’26 MENA is obtainable 17 February – 24 March 2026).
• Answer all of the questions for the totally different sections within the application portal (discovered within the left-hand menu).  
• Upload your CV underneath the doc part and a brief pre-recorded video as per the directions within the portal.  
• After you’ve submitted your application, you’ll obtain a affirmation to your inbox in Dream Apply.  

For extra data, go to Swedish Institute Impact Pioneers – MENA.