Social Shifters 2022 Global Innovation Challenge for Entrepreneurs

Published: 22 Sep 2022

The social innovation challenge is designed to help young leaders and founders to explore, start and grow their ideas to solve the social or environmental issues that matter to them most.

Social Shifters are next generation leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs with fresh solutions to today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. They are looking for creative ideas, projects, and business solutions to the problems that matter most to you and your community. They welcome ideas at any stage and from anywhere in the world.

Social Shifters operate on a non-profit basis, providing engaging learning experiences, practical mentoring, and a global community of support to move you, and your ideas, forward.

Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge

Application Deadline	November 9, 2022
Funding Type	Partially Funded
Type	Entrepreneurs
Sponsor	Amazon
Gender	Men and Women

Benefits of Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge

• Unlock Your Potential: Develop your skills, confidence and future prospects with help from skilled mentors and as part of a supportive global community.
• Accelerate Your Idea: Get FREE access to a world-leading Digital Incubator programme to help develop your project or business idea.
• Make an Impact: Compete for awards of up to $10,000 to deliver activities that improve lives, help communities, and protect the planet.
• Global recognition and media publicity for all shortlisted ideas.

Requirements for Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge

• Open to next gen leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs between 18 – 30 years;
• Your idea must contribute towards at least one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals;
• You can submit your idea into one (or more) SDG categories, PLUS one of the special awards – Health Equity Challenge, Refugee Challenge and Climate Challenge.

Selection Process

Selection Criteria

Whether your idea is a new one or is already showing promising results, judges will assess how effectively the proposed project or business solution demonstrates the following:

• Impact
• innovation
• Feasibility
• Scalability

Application Deadline

November 9, 2022

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Amazon on ss2022.innovationchallenge.com to apply