Applications are now open for the SEED awards 2021. Winners will receive a matching grant of up to €15,000 and a 12-month support package. Beyond celebrating achievements of businesses that create social and environmental impact, the SEED Awards and enterprise programmes play an important role to support green and social impact SMEs with their challenges.
All SEED Award Winners and Runners-up will also participate in the SEED Accelerator and Catalyser programmes, respectively. These programmes are run by local business development organisations and designed to support high-potential enterprises to scale up, optimise their eco-inclusive impacts and financial planning. In addition, Award recipients will get access to the SEED Enterprise Toolkit for collaboration and hands-on design thinking methods for enterprise development. Winners and Runners-up will join more than 300 SEED Award alumni and be profiled at the high-level awards ceremony as well as SEED partner events.
Award Categories
- SEED Low Carbon Awards: Open for applicants from: Ghana, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Thailand, and Uganda
- SEED Climate Adaptation Awards: Open for applicants from: Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia
Who is eligible? Enterprises that fulfill the below criteria are encouraged to apply:
- Innovative market-driven enterprise providing solutions to social and environmental problems
- Have intention and potential to become financially sustainable
- Is in partnership between different stakeholder groups
- Is locally founded and locally led
- Has potential for scale-up and replication
- Is operational and in the early to growth stages
Applications are now open on the SEED Platform at https://app.seed.uno/
More information can be found in the Call for Applications and Information Sheet & FAQ