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Deadline: September 9, 2017
Location: Singapore
Fully Funded to Singapore!
Location: Singapore
Fully Funded to Singapore!
Overview:
ASEAN Impact Challenge is a regional programme designed to discover innovators from Southeast Asia who are accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through cross-sector partnerships and disruptive innovations. The Challenge presents opportunities to identify and strengthen new innovations and to achieve select outcomes around the SDGs.
As we live in a world that is becoming increasingly more connected, there needs to be new ways of enabling all of humanity to prosper and succeed—together. Specifically in the ASEAN region, its unique challenges and opportunities require a more cohesive, inclusive approach that engages all levels of society on diverse issues and outcomes.
This year’s challenge is themed ‘Inclusive Innovations for ASEAN’ and hopes to discover innovations from citizens and the private sector that are delivering on the inclusivity agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals in the region through the power of entrepreneurship and collaboration.
Application Period (8 AUG – 9 SEPT):
Attend our National Global Goals Mixers: one-day events to equip locals with knowledge on social innovation and how to design for social good. This also covers how the future of business can become a force for social good.
Global Goals Labs (19 SEPT – 19 NOV):
Commencement of Global Goals Labs 2-month acceleration programme for Top 5 from Early Stage and Scale Stage.
Regional Finals (21 – 25 NOV):
Top 5 from Early Stage and Scale Stage attend the regional finals to showcase their innovations to investors and other corporate organisations. Regional Finals will be held in conjunction with the Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development.
Early and Scale Stage Innovations:
ASEAN Impact Challenge will have two categories: Early Stage Innovations and Scale Stage Innovations. Early Stage Innovations are proposals, ideas, concepts and prototypes with the potential to deliver long-term solutions and impact, while Scale Stage innovations must be proven social innovations with the potential and capacity to increase impact by expanding its beneficiary base.
Criteria:
Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria: problem definition, user base definition, product-market fit, innovative approach, sustainability, scalability, social impact, and team capability.
Looking for:
The Challenge is open to innovations with the potential to scale and is designed to encourage, empower and support partnerships and innovations that will create impact in the region. At the Regional Finals, 10 Finalist Teams from ASEAN countries with a proven innovation and impact model will be given the opportunity to pitch their revolutionary initiatives to a group of entrepreneurs, investors, corporations and city authorities.
Traditionally, challenge frameworks in the region have focused more on entrepreneurship instead of innovation, and its potential for impact and scalability of the same. The ASEAN Impact Challenge takes an alternative approach, focusing on the impact of the local innovations if they are successfully scaled across border and sectors.
The programme is aligned to the SDGs, with the theme of Inclusive Innovations. It provides a platform for businesses and social purpose organisations to create partnerships that can further the achievement of a national, regional and global agenda for development.
Teams, communities, experts and key institutions will be part of the conversation on the impact of knowledge and experience sharing through the Global Goals Labs, which will form the backbone of the challenge – as a methodology to spark collaborations and accelerate innovations.
Funding:
Organizer will not reimburse you for any travel expenses, meals or other expenses incurred in relation to the Challenge. Organizer will only reimburse National finalist teams’ travel and accommodation expenses during their visit to Singapore for the Regional Challenge.
Visit the official website to apply:
ASEAN Impact Challenge is a regional programme designed to discover innovators from Southeast Asia who are accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through cross-sector partnerships and disruptive innovations. The Challenge presents opportunities to identify and strengthen new innovations and to achieve select outcomes around the SDGs.
As we live in a world that is becoming increasingly more connected, there needs to be new ways of enabling all of humanity to prosper and succeed—together. Specifically in the ASEAN region, its unique challenges and opportunities require a more cohesive, inclusive approach that engages all levels of society on diverse issues and outcomes.
This year’s challenge is themed ‘Inclusive Innovations for ASEAN’ and hopes to discover innovations from citizens and the private sector that are delivering on the inclusivity agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals in the region through the power of entrepreneurship and collaboration.
Application Period (8 AUG – 9 SEPT):
Attend our National Global Goals Mixers: one-day events to equip locals with knowledge on social innovation and how to design for social good. This also covers how the future of business can become a force for social good.
Global Goals Labs (19 SEPT – 19 NOV):
Commencement of Global Goals Labs 2-month acceleration programme for Top 5 from Early Stage and Scale Stage.
Regional Finals (21 – 25 NOV):
Top 5 from Early Stage and Scale Stage attend the regional finals to showcase their innovations to investors and other corporate organisations. Regional Finals will be held in conjunction with the Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development.
Early and Scale Stage Innovations:
ASEAN Impact Challenge will have two categories: Early Stage Innovations and Scale Stage Innovations. Early Stage Innovations are proposals, ideas, concepts and prototypes with the potential to deliver long-term solutions and impact, while Scale Stage innovations must be proven social innovations with the potential and capacity to increase impact by expanding its beneficiary base.
Criteria:
Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria: problem definition, user base definition, product-market fit, innovative approach, sustainability, scalability, social impact, and team capability.
Looking for:
The Challenge is open to innovations with the potential to scale and is designed to encourage, empower and support partnerships and innovations that will create impact in the region. At the Regional Finals, 10 Finalist Teams from ASEAN countries with a proven innovation and impact model will be given the opportunity to pitch their revolutionary initiatives to a group of entrepreneurs, investors, corporations and city authorities.
Traditionally, challenge frameworks in the region have focused more on entrepreneurship instead of innovation, and its potential for impact and scalability of the same. The ASEAN Impact Challenge takes an alternative approach, focusing on the impact of the local innovations if they are successfully scaled across border and sectors.
The programme is aligned to the SDGs, with the theme of Inclusive Innovations. It provides a platform for businesses and social purpose organisations to create partnerships that can further the achievement of a national, regional and global agenda for development.
Teams, communities, experts and key institutions will be part of the conversation on the impact of knowledge and experience sharing through the Global Goals Labs, which will form the backbone of the challenge – as a methodology to spark collaborations and accelerate innovations.
Funding:
Organizer will not reimburse you for any travel expenses, meals or other expenses incurred in relation to the Challenge. Organizer will only reimburse National finalist teams’ travel and accommodation expenses during their visit to Singapore for the Regional Challenge.
Visit the official website to apply:
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