South Africa
Incubator
Startups
Accelerator
Innovation Hub

Impact Pioneers’24 seeks to strengthen leaders and enablers working in organizations and networks that want to promote the nurture and growth of local impact entrepreneurship. The programme aims to grow participants' skillset through exchange of experiences, perspectives, cases, tools and frameworks.

Impact Pioneers offers participants the opportunity to:

  • Grow from the exchange of experiences with an international community of peers.
  • Be supported and inspired by new insights from the Impact entrepreneurship and Impact innovation forefront, such as practical cases, tools and frameworks.
  • Get first-hand experience of the Impact entrepreneurship community in Stockholm, recognized as one of the leading ecosystems in the impact entrepreneurship domain.
  • Build long-term relations with Swedish foreign missions and Swedish Impact entrepreneurs that seek to expand their international reach, growth and impact.

Who can apply?

The application is open to entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners who work in organizations and networks that want to develop their support for entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainability and green transition. More specifically, applicants who work as:

  • Startup hub/accelerator/incubation founders and managers
  • Tech and innovation hub founders and managers
  • University accelerator/incubator managers

The application is open to 22 programme countries (applicants must be a citizen and resident of one of them):

AFRICA: Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
ASIA: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
EUROPE: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine*

Click here to apply 

Closing date
Industry
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
​Mining and quarrying
​Manufacturing
​Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
​Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
​Transportation and storage
​Information and communication
Financial and insurance activities
Professional, scientific and technical activities
Human health and social work activities
​Other service activities