Innovate 4 Nature Award 2024 (up to CHF 100,000 in prizes)

This informs the public about the Innovate 4 Nature Award 2024. Details about the Program are given below.

Innovate 4 Nature Award 2024

The I4N Award offers a total of CHF 100,000 in prize money across four focus areas. In addition to the financial support, award winners can benefit from access to an ecosystem of partners and experts. Moreover, I4N Grants or access to training or mentoring may be provided to particularly promising nature-positive solution providers.

Program Details

Each year, Innovate 4 Nature awards an “I4N Award” in four key areas to projects, companies and entrepreneurs that have developed particularly promising, high-quality nature-positive solutions.

The Innovate 4 Nature Award aims at identifying high-quality nature-positive solutions and accelerating them in collaboration with partners to halt and improve nature loss by 2030.

The goal of I4N is to support nature-positive solution providers around the pre-seed and seed stages, where a business plan or a minimum viable product is available and needs validation.

Prize

The I4N Award offers monetary prizes totalling up to CHF 100,000 across four key areas. In addition to the financial support, award winners can benefit from access to an ecosystem of partners and experts.

Moreover, I4N Grants or access to training or mentoring may be provided to particularly promising nature-positive solution providers.

Eligibility

Business criteria

To assess the potential of your solution in a business context, we evaluate the following elements:

  • Problem-Fit: Ability of your solution to solve the selected problem.
  • Financial viability: Potential ability of business model to self-sustain at scale.
  • Maturity: Stage after initial idea, before growth phase.
  • Team: Composition and skills of team.

Nature/Biodiversity criteria

To assess the potential of your solution in the nature/biodiversity space, we evaluate the following elements:

  • Theory of change: Ability to identify and articulate the solution’s positive impact.
  • Extent: Potential size of area positively affected by the solution.
  • Condition change: Potential size of the positive ecosystem condition change.
  • Significance: Relative importance of the impacted area for biodiversity.
  • Transformation: Solution potential to transform economic/social systems.

How to Apply

For those interested in the Innovate 4 Nature Award. Open this link to start the application process.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 5 April 2024.

Open this link for more details about the Innovate 4 Nature Award.

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