Deadline: 30 June 2025
Apply to their incubation program and take your idea to the next level. Their world-class incubation program will turn your idea into a well-established company.
Their incubation program provides all the resources and support you need to transform your idea into a successful venture. Space is limited, so they ask all interested parties to submit their applications. This allows their expert panel to select the most promising ideas based on their potential impact, degree of innovation, viability, and team capacity.
Benefits
- Successful applications have a wide range of opportunities, including:
- Mentoring and support in validating your business and impact model, prototyping your idea, and finding your first customers and followers.
- A chance to win the SIA, which includes funding, recognition, and a trip to the SIA Annual Summit.
- Connect with their global community of alumni who have created more than 1,000 social enterprises in over 25 countries.
Eligibility Criteria
- To maintain consistency in their eligibility criteria, they’ve focused their mission on helping young people take their first steps in the world of social entrepreneurship. Applicants must meet the following criteria:
- To ensure they maintain the focus of their efforts on youth, all core project members must be between 18 and 30 years of age.
- They welcome ideas that have not yet been implemented and ideas that are in the early stages of implementation. However, ideas in the early stages of implementation are eligible only if the project was funded after January 1 of the previous year.
- Projects wishing to participate must not have received significant startup funding at the time of application submission. This is defined as resources obtained from external sources exceeding €6,000 (e.g., angel investors, grants, monetary prizes, among others).
- Applicants must not have participated in the SIA incubation with the same idea they applied for, nor have they won a previous edition of the SIA.
Selection Process
- Eligibility Verification
- Their local SIA team reviews all applications to ensure they meet the eligibility criteria.
- Jury selection
- Their jury is made up of experts from the public and/or private sectors who review applications based on their evaluation criteria.
- Announcement of the finalists
- Their local team will announce the finalists who will go through incubation at an event they will host.
- Feedback on requests
- Their local team provides all applicants (not just finalists) with the opportunity to receive feedback on their application.
For more information, visit SIA.
