Nominations open for Innovate 4 Nature Award

Deadline Date: April 05, 2024

Donor Name: Innovate 4 Nature

Grant Size: $100,000 to $500,000

Nominations are now open for the Innovate 4 Nature Award to support nature-positive solution providers around the pre-seed and seed stage, where a business plan or a minimum viable product is available and needs validation.

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.

Focus Areas

• The four key areas of the I4N Award are:
  • sustainable management of ecosystems;
  • nature as infrastructure;
  • regenerative agriculture; and
  • circular nature-positive solutions.
• Your organisation can be active in one or several of these areas. You don’t need to categorize yourself.
• It is also possible to apply if you think your organisation is contributing to nature-positive but does not match any of the above areas explicitly, such as nature-tech or nature-finance.

Benefits

• 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 Criteria

• Participation is free of charge.
• There is no geographical restriction, organisations from any country are welcome to apply.
• There are no specific requirements regarding legal form, ownership structure or age of entity.
• The minimum requirement is the presence of a business model, a business plan, a marketable pilot product, or a minimum viable product (MVP).
• They only accept applications directly from founders and not from fundraisers.
• Should you be selected, at least one founder or executive director must be available either in person or via video call on the day of the Jury meeting: Thursday, June 13th, 2024, in Morges/Lausanne, Switzerland.
• If you meet the above mentioned criteria, you can apply for several organisations. Keep the following in mind:
  • You need to be founder or director at all organisations.
  • You need to submit an individual application for each organisation.

For more information, visit Innovate 4 Nature.