Innovate 4 Nature Award 2024 | Up to CHF 100,000 in prize money|
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Innovate 4 Nature Award 2024 | Up to CHF 100,000 in prize money|
Each year, Innovate 4 Nature Award an “I4N Award” in four key areas to projects, companies and entrepreneurs that have developed particularly promising, high-quality nature-positive solutions.
The Innovate 4 Nature Award aims at identifying high quality nature-positive solutions and accelerating them in collaboration with partners to halt and improve nature loss by 2030. The goal of I4N is to support nature-positive solution providers around the pre-seed and seed stage, where a business plan or a minimum viable product is available and needs validation.
The four key areas of the I4N Award are:
- sustainable management of ecosystems;
- nature as infrastructure;
- regenerative agriculture; and
- circular nature-positive solutions.
Award
- The I4N Award offers a total of CHF 100,000 in prize money across four focus areas.
- In addition to the financial support, award winners can benefit from access to an ecosystem of partners and experts.
- Moreover, I4N Grants or access to training or mentoring may be provided to particularly promising nature-positive solution providers.
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Eligibility for Innovate 4 Nature Award
- Participation is free of charge.
- There is no geographical restriction, organisations from any country are welcome to apply.
- There are no specific requirements regarding legal form, ownership structure or age of entity.
- The minimum requirement is the presence of a business model, a business plan, a marketable pilot product, or a minimum viable product (MVP).
- We only accept applications directly from founders and not from fundraisers.
- Should you be selected, at least one founder or executive director must be available either in person or via video call on the day of the Jury meeting: Thursday, June 13th, 2024, in Morges/Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Application of Innovate 4 Nature Award
- Round 1: Call for application. 12:00 CET on April 5th, 2024.
- Round 2: Detailed assessment 12:00 CET on May 10th 2024.
Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Competitions and Awards |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 05 April,2024 |
| Country | Africa |
| Organizer | Innovate 4 Nature |
| Contact the organizer | [email protected] |