Create your idea

Start with a brief summary and then progress through the other fields. You can save your draft application and continue later.

Invite your team

Send email invitations to your team members. Once they join the platform and complete their profiles, they will be able to edit the application together with you.

Eligibility criteria

By keeping a consistent eligibility criteria, we are able to fulfill our mission of helping youth take their first steps in the world of social entrepreneurship. Applicants must fit the following criteria:

  1. To ensure we maintain the focus of our offerings on youth, all members of the core applicant team must be legally between 14 and 30 years of age.
  2. We welcome both ideas that have not yet been implemented and ideas in the early phase of implementation. However, ideas in early implementation can only be submitted if the project was founded after January 1st last year.
  3. Applicant projects must not have received significant formal start-up funding by the time their application is submitted. This is defined as formal grants from external sources that exceed a value of € 6,000 (e.g. angel investment, grants, prize money, etc.).
  4. The applicant must not have participated in the SIA incubation with the same idea they applied with nor have won the Social Impact Award in previous years.

Program updates

You can find details on all our other program offerings as well as support events on our website.

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Timeline

  1. Applications Open

    The journey starts here. You can officially submit your application to our local incubation.

  2. Applications Close

    The deadline to apply has arrived and applications have closed. Our expert jury will start reviewing applications right away.

  3. Finalists announcement

    The most promising ventures selected to participate in the incubation will be announced during our dedicated event. The event is

  4. Feedback

    For those not accepted to our incubation, the journey does not stop here. All applicants are eligible to receive feedback on the

We support you in building social enterprises that find solutions to the most challenging issues of our time.
We play, we experiment, we dream big, we work hard.
We are 100% human and radically collaborative.

We do so by hosting events and organizing workshops to raise awareness for social entrepreneurship, teaching the necessary skills to navigate from vague intentions to promising ventures, providing access to networks and promoting the best teams with the Social Impact Award.

Awareness

By inspiring youth with stories from thousands of local social entrepreneurs, we raise awareness about social entrepreneurship as a potential career path and vehicle for civic engagement.

Education

Our free-of-charge and highly accessible workshops, events, and webinars allow youth to discover the field of entrepreneurship and kick-start their journey as social innovators.

Community

We nurture our global community of young social entrepreneurs, experts, partners, and supporters by connecting them with one another and providing them with exclusive opportunities.

Support

We support the most promising young social entrepreneurs with know-how, mentoring, access to networks, and pre-seed funding. We also provide a wide range of offerings to strengthen their resilience.