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Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards (Win up to $50,000 and a trip to Cambridge and London)

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Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards (Win up to $50,000 and a trip to Cambridge and London)

The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards can help you take your sustainability initiative, product or service to the next level. Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards aims to recognise and support brilliant young innovators tackling the planet’s biggest environmental and social challenges, and help to them achieve scale for impact.  if you are working on an innovative and scalable technology or initiative – or know someone who is – which is contributing to one or more of these eight categories

  • Goal 2 – Zero Hunger
  • Goal 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
  • Goal 4 – Quality Education
  • Goal 5 – Gender Equality
  • Goal 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Goal 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Goal 12 – Responsible Production and Consumption
  • Goal 13 – Climate Action

Awards

The unique prizes of the Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards are designed to lift your initiative to the next level, helping to fuel growth and maximise impact.

  • Up to eight winners will receive financial support to help them grow – with the overall winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize receiving €50,000.
  • The overall winner will receive the ‘HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize.’

All winners will attend a special prize event hosted in London.

  • The winner of the ‘HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize’ will receive a €50,000 cash award and one-to-one mentoring support tailored to their specific needs for a duration of 12 months.
  • The remaining winners will each receive a €8,500 cash award and one-to-one mentoring support tailored to their specific needs for a duration of 12 months.

Eligibiliy

  • The competition is open to founders or co-founders, aged between 18 and 35 (as of 29 June 2018), of initiatives from any part of the world with the exception of those based in Russia, due to local data protection laws.
  • Initiatives must relate to one or more of the categories: Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and Production and Climate Action.
  • Entries must have grown beyond the idea stage to include actions the applicant has already taken – whether through informal networks, via an existing institution, or by creating a new enterprise.
  • Entries cannot be accepted from current Unilever employees, nor can entries promote Unilever or its products. However, the entrepreneur may have worked with Unilever in the past or may be working with Unilever currently as a third-party supplier.
  • Entries must be submitted in English.
  • If shortlisted, entrants will be required to submit further information in the form of a pitch deck OR business plan, and financial projections, by 21 August 2018 (further guidelines will be sent to shortlisted entries in the first week of August).
  • If shortlisted, entrants will be required to participate in a video call with a shortlisting panel on 11 or 12 September 2018.
  • If shortlisted as a finalist, entrants must be exclusively available to attend all parts of the accelerator programme in Cambridge, UK and subsequent Awards events in London, UK from 25 October to 31 October 2018. Unfortunately, inability to attend any part of the agenda due to a competing commitment will mean participants forfeit their place on the programme.

Specifications

Type of Opportunity Competitions and Awards
Deadline29 June,2018
CountryUK
CityLondon
OrganizerUnilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards

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