Call for Applications: SIA Incubation Programme (Turkey)

The focus areas, include supporting early-stage social entrepreneurship, enabling innovation and impact-driven business models, strengthening feasibility and team capacity, providing mentorship and validation support, and fostering youth-led solutions with strong social and economic impact potential.

The programme is designed to help selected startups develop their ideas through structured incubation support, expert mentoring, and access to global networks. It aims to guide participants in validating business and impact models, developing prototypes, and building early user and customer bases while preparing them for long-term entrepreneurial success.

Selected participants will receive mentoring and support for business and impact model development, prototyping, and customer acquisition. They will also have the opportunity to compete for the Social Impact Award, which includes funding, recognition, and participation in the SIA Summit. Additionally, participants gain access to an international alumni network of social entrepreneurs across multiple countries.

The selection process includes a conformity check to ensure eligibility, jury evaluation by experts from different sectors, announcement of finalists for incubation, and feedback provided to all applicants, including those not selected as finalists.

Eligible applicants must be part of teams where all members are born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2008, with at least one member residing in Turkey. Applicants must not have previously participated in the SIA incubation process or won an award with the same idea. The project idea must not have generated revenue or received funding before 1 January 2025, and only applications submitted through the official platform before the deadline will be considered.

For more information, visit Social Impact Award.