During the eight-week program, you’ll collaborate in a team, work together to complete team assignments and learn to develop innovative business solutions. The program culminates in an exciting pitch competition.
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The Refugee-led Innovation Fund is currently open to applications from organizations led by forcibly displaced or stateless people in all countries.
The challenge is open to non-profits, social enterprises and businesses across Africa that are utilizing various technological and digital tools to develop innovative social solutions.
This free, massive open online course introduces UNDP’s BIOFIN methodology for designing and implementing national biodiversity finance plans. Through interactive lessons and knowledge checks, you’ll learn to assess your country’s policy and financial landscape, etc.
Selected startups will have the opportunity to pitch at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum in Rome, Y Science signature side event of Slush in Helsinki, and access and use FAO's and partner's valuable data sets.
The funding requested for each application is expected within, but not limited to, the following ranges:
$15,000-$40,000 USD to build new complementary access solutions to connect the unconnected
$5,000-$20,000 USD to expand or improve existing complementary access solutions to connect the unconnected.
Through our Henry Arnhold Fellowship we find leaders with promising conservation and climate solutions and help them to design and deliver them at scale. The fellowship comes with an unrestricted $100K grant up front.
Innovation adopters receive technical assistance and grant funding to help pilot the innovation in their own company, while innovation trailblazers will receive grant funding and support from the GDC to share their knowledge and insights with the cohort of innovation adopters.
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