UpLink accepts innovative solutions for the Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative to conserve and restore freshwater ecosystems. Click here to learn more about this opportunity.
About Uplink Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative 2024
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: May 24, 2024
- Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
- Category: Training
This five-year project initiative emphasizes addressing water pollution and ensuring water quality. It recognizes the critical environmental significance of water and its role in sustaining life and biodiversity. Given the severe threats posed by industrial runoff, agricultural practices, plastic waste, and emerging contaminants like pharmaceuticals and PFAS, the initiative focuses on preventing pollution and mitigating its environmental impacts
Focus Area
- Prevent contamination at the source
- New approaches to water management
- Optimize public water and wastewater treatment
- Household water quality solutions
Benefits of Uplink Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative 2024
The winners will benefit from this initiative as follows:
- Financial Award: Up to CHF 175,000 for each of the 10 Top Innovators, from a total fund of CHF 1.75 million
- Access: Participation in selected World Economic Forum projects, partner-led events, and communities
- Visibility: Universal exposure via UpLink’s digital media channels and Forum
- Connections: Planned introductions to selected organizations in the UpLink’s and Forum’s network
- Targeted Support: Technical, business, and operational programming and support
Uplink Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative 2024 Requirements
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
Business Viability:
- The solution must demonstrate a sustainable business model with a clear revenue approach
- Has a risk management plan
- Demonstrated product-market fit
- Legal entity and a capable leadership team
Intention to Deliver Impact:
- Long-term, cross-sectoral benefits
- Demonstrates clear impact monitoring, evaluation, and verification framework
Solution Novelty and Replicability:
- Unique product or service offering
- Proof of concept and potential for implementation across various geographies and cultural contexts
Required Documents
Please prepare these documents and upload them for your application:
- Detailed business model
- Risk management plan
- Evidence of product-market fit
- Legal entity documentation
- Leadership team profiles
- Impact monitoring and evaluation framework
- Proof of concept documentation
Application Date and Process
- Complete and submit the application form on the UpLink platform between 21 May 2024 and 31 August 2024. Click on the link to the application website to access this form.
- Await Review and Selection from 31 August to September 2024.
- If selected, participate in the pitch competition.
- Winners will be announced in January 2025 during the Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
Application Deadline
31 August, 2024
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