Do you work in an organization or network supporting entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainability and green transition? Apply for the Impact Pioneers ’24: Enabling Impact Entrepreneurship Leadership Programme.

The Swedish Institute invites applicants for the Impact Pioneers: Enabling Impact Entrepreneurship Leadership Programme. The hybrid Programme targets entrepreneurship ecosystem enablers, leaders and practitioners working in organizations and networks developing their support for entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainability and green transition. This Programme seeks to set a solid foundation for future partnerships to benefit impact startups as they seek to expand their growth, reach and overall impact.

Successful applicants to the Programme will benefit from the following:

  • Growth from the exchange of experience with an international community of peers
  • Opportunity to learn new insights from impact entrepreneurship and innovation forefront, including practical cases, tools and frameworks
  • First-hand experience of the impact entrepreneurship community in Stockholm
  • Opportunity to build long-term relations with Swedish foreign missions and impact entrepreneurs.

Interested applicants must meet the following requirements to apply:

  • Be a citizen and resident of one of the 22 programme countries
  • Work in an organization or business systematically working to nurture and grow entrepreneurs.
  • Have the mandate to develop new international partnerships for your organization/business.
  • Have an excellent working knowledge of both written and spoken English.
  • Be willing to actively participate, provide support and share their experience and knowledge with other participants.
  • Have identified opportunities and challenges that could be worked on during the Programme to help their organization improve its contribution to the local entrepreneurship ecosystem

The applicant’s local organization or business must also meet the following criteria:

  • Be locally owned and based in one of the programme countries.
  • Be somehow hosting/coaching (or be in the process of starting up hosting/coaching of) entrepreneurs with business ideas that are related to sustainability and green transition.
  • Run the organization/business, focusing on contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Apply before 31 May 2024 using this link: Application form.