Awards
UK
Unilever started the Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards to recognize in addition to back upwards vivid immature innovators tackling the planet’s biggest environmental and social challenges in addition to to help them laissez passer on scale for impact. Unilever believes that the world’s problems volition precisely last solved amongst the ideas in addition to talents of a novel generation of leaders in addition to changemakers who are challenging line concern equally usual, in addition to who are the hereafter of sustainability. The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards volition recognise upwards to 8 winners, including the HRH Prize Winner, inwards 2018, led past times The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, culminating inwards video interviews amongst our finalist alternative panels. Winners volition get got a withdraw chances to do their pitches during the Accelerator inwards Cambridge where they volition operate amongst experts from the University of Cambridge, Unilever in addition to other inspirational speakers in addition to guests. The overall winner volition have the ‘HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize.’ All winners volition attend a exceptional prize effect hosted inwards London. The winner of the ‘HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize’ volition have a €50,000 cash observe in addition to one-to-one mentoring back upwards tailored to their specific needs for a duration of 12 months. The remaining winners volition each have a €8,500 cash observe in addition to one-to-one mentoring back upwards tailored to their specific needs for a duration of 12 months.
Eligibilities The contest is opened upwards to founders or co-founders, aged betwixt eighteen in addition to 35 (as of 29 June 2018), of initiatives from whatever business office of the basis amongst the exception of those based inwards Russia, due to local information protection laws. Initiatives must relate to 1 or to a greater extent than of the categories: Zero Hunger, Good Health in addition to Well-being, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water in addition to Sanitation, Decent Work in addition to Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption in addition to Production in addition to Climate Action.
Entries must get got grown beyond the thought phase to include actions the applicant has already taken – whether through informal networks, via an existing institution, or past times creating a novel enterprise. Entries cannot last accepted from electrical current Unilever employees, nor tin entries promote Unilever or its products. However, the entrepreneur may get got worked amongst Unilever inwards the past times or may last working amongst Unilever currently equally a third-party supplier. Entries must last submitted inwards English. If shortlisted, entrants volition last required to submit farther information inwards the degree of a pitch deck OR line concern plan, in addition to fiscal projections, past times 21 August 2018 (further guidelines volition last sent to shortlisted entries inwards the commencement calendar week of August). If shortlisted, entrants volition last required to participate inwards a video telephone phone amongst a shortlisting panel on xi or 12 September 2018. If shortlisted equally a finalist, entrants must last solely available to attend all parts of the accelerator programme inwards Cambridge, Britain in addition to subsequent Awards events inwards London, Britain from 25 Oct to 31 Oct 2018. Unfortunately, inability to attend whatever business office of the agenda due to a competing commitment volition hateful participants forfeit their house on the programme. Eligible Regions: Open for All (Except Russia, due to local information protection laws).
Website https://youngentrepreneursawards.unilever.com/
Sign up https://youngentrepreneursawards.unilever.com/signup
Awards
Bahrain
This global laurels comes every bit an appear of the theatre faith of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, inward immature people’s potential to atomic number 82 their countries as well as the earth towards a amend shared futurity of peace as well as prosperity for all people on a well for you lot as well as renewable planet, every bit envisioned past times the world’s nearly ambitious innovation to transform our earth – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The King Hamad Award has 2 categories, One grouping targeting individuals. It recognizes youth contribution to achievements of the sustainable evolution goals. The Second grouping recognizes enablers of youth participation activity as well as touching for SDGs achievement.
All 8 winners volition endure informed of their alternative past times Jan 2019.
Benefits The King Hamad Youth Empowerment Award inward the youth activity category is worth $20,000 The NGOs/Foundations inward the Youth Enablers category is worth $25,000, to endure submitted every bit a former grant inward amount later the awarding ceremony. All winners of the King Hamad Youth Award volition endure invited to attend the awards presentation volition accept house inward the Kingdom of Bahrain Flights as well as accommodation volition endure paid past times MYS for each of the 8 winners.
Eligibilities This outset category is opened upwards to applicants from all United Nations fellow member states. Applicants could be:
Individual youth to a higher house the historic menses of xv years as well as below the historic menses of xxx yearsa A youth-led entity (defined every bit whatever entity, inward which at to the lowest degree 50% of electrical current management/leadership is below historic menses of 30) A youth-focused entity (defined every bit whatever entity, inward which at to the lowest degree 90% of resources serve youth to a higher house xv as well as below xxx years of age). The Second category is opened upwards to entities that are legally recognized as well as registered inward a United Nations fellow member state, inward i of the next 4 sectors: The governmental as well as populace sector; The private sector; NGOs/foundations, The media.
Website https://goo.gl/hcfXqf Apply https://goo.gl/tV26ay
Application Deadline: 30.10.2018
Awards
Fund
Youth
UNHCR invites proposals for the Youth Initiative Fund 2019. Now its 7th year, the YIF was initiated yesteryear the Division of International Protection inward Geneva to back upwardly community-based protection projects imagined, designed in addition to led yesteryear immature people. Since 2014, the YIF has supported to a greater extent than than 100 youth-led projects globally that convey addressed protection challenges including sexual in addition to gender-based violence, peaceful coexistence, small-scale fry protection, in addition to psychosocial well-being.
The YIF creates an enabling environs that provides immature people alongside infinite in addition to back upwardly necessary to expire active protection actors inside their communities in addition to helps them laid upwardly life skills that strengthen resilience. This is achieved through the realization of iii principal objectives:
Participation: Young people convey genuine opportunities for community participation in addition to opportunities to behavior upon decision-making processes, peculiarly inward the surface area of protection; Empowerment: Young people larn virtually projection management, role their initiative, evaluate options, larn to brand informed decisions in addition to choices, developing in addition to enhancing leadership skills; Innovation: Young people develop innovative, youth-appropriate protection solutions to addressing personal, grouping in addition to community challenges.
With the Global Compact on Refugees, States in addition to partners volition develop in addition to adopt a novel “whole-of-society approach” to working alongside refugees through the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework. The Youth Initiative Fund has highlighted fourth dimension in addition to i time to a greater extent than – through its unique approach of youth-led protection projects – provided alongside support, preparation in addition to resources, immature people tin dismiss live on creative work solvers, in addition to are able to design, atomic number 82 in addition to implement successful projects that benefit, non alone themselves simply their entire communities.
Location: Online Benefits The maximum funding allotment per projection is US$ 10,000. Eligibilities Projects that convey been previously funded may employ simply must demonstrate how continued funding volition add together value to their electrical current project. Proposals tin dismiss live on submitted inward English linguistic communication or French. Eligible Regions: Open for All.
Applucation Process There are 2 forms in addition to i log frame to live on completed. The youth group/s should develop the principal proposal in addition to a basic log frame, based on the template in addition to guidance provided. The participating constituent should thence consummate the online submission shape in addition to attach the forms completed yesteryear immature people, besides every bit a photograph of the procedure in addition to whatever other supporting documents. Countries alongside multiple operations may submit to a greater extent than than i proposal. Each projection proposal submission should incorporate a consummate laid of documents – ii forms in addition to a log frame – i to live on submitted yesteryear UNHCR online alongside the proposal in addition to the log frame to be attached.
Application Deadline: Dec 3, 2018
Application https://goo.gl/p1hmJQ
Unilever started the Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 
