UNWTO Gastronomy Tourism Startup Competition
Fully Funded
Country: Japan
City: Nara
Apr 01 - May 01, 2022
Details
UNWTO’s third edition Globalitio Gastronomy Tourism Startup Competition has opened the application.
Its mission is to identify challenges and projects and catalyze innovations that can transform the Gastronomy Tourism sector in the future.
Criteria
- Scope into the Gastronomy Tourism Sector
- Degree of comparative disruptiveness
- Focused on meeting unmet social needs in different realms, to foster employability of young and/or vulnerable people, depopulation of the territory, population ageing and/or gender equality; and with tangible indicators to that effect.
- ability to generate a change in society, improving the social conditions of the beneficiary groups and/or promoting their recognition before society.
- also, product or service prototypes are tested with already measured or measurable results.
- agile implementation in the short-medium term for co-development of products/services, optimizing the use of existing resources/infrastructure and ability to scale the product.
- In addition, committed team.
- Linking and tangible social impact metrics concerning the priority SDG.
Eligibility for the startups
All the startups developing and promoting a startup on the following are eligible:
- a high technological component to provide solutions or new services related to the Gastronomic Tourism sector.
- a project with a high component of transformation and social improvement in its area of implementation and that is attached to the Gastronomic Tourism sector.
- a project with a high component of sustainability and/or food waste management related to the impact generated by tourists
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Benefits
- Mentoring by UNWTO and top partners
- Tailored support for your startup
- Also, get the Investment opportunities
- Form part of the UNWTO Innovation Network
- In addition, scholarship opportunities for the Tourism Online Academy
- Opportunity to present your startup at the 7th UNWTO Gastronomy Tourism Forum in Japan
- Use of space in the LABe- Digital Gastronomy Lab facilities for 6 months.
- Furthermore, participate as a finalist company in the corresponding edition of Culinary Action
- Advanced Plan of the GOe Digital Community for 6 months
Selection Process
The jury will select 3-5 projects per category and select the winning project.
Also, the 3-5 project winning projects per category will have the opportunity to attend the final event.
During the selection process, the jury will evaluate the winning project in each category based on the project, its territorial scope, the potential for transformation and social improvement.
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Prize
The winning project per category will:
- Use of space in the LABe- Digital Gastronomy Lab facilities for 6 months.
- Also, participate as a finalist company in the corresponding edition of Culinary Action!
- Advanced Plan of the GOe Digital Community for 6 months
- Furthermore, in this period of 6 months, BCC will take at its discretion the decision to continue the relationship with the startup and develop an individual work plan.
Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Entrepreneurship Events |
|---|---|
| Event Date | 01 April,2022 to 01 May,2022 |
| Deadline | 28 February,2022 |
| Country | Japan |
| City | Nara |
| Open to | all nationalities |
| Organizer | world tourism organisation |
| Contact the organizer | [email protected] |