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Generacción Awards. Financing Social Innovation

Deloitte, Cotec Foundation and the Royal Academy of Engineering announce the 6th edition of the Generaccion Awards. This initiative seeks to disseminate new business models that offer value to society and the Spanish economy, through the entrepreneurial and innovation.

 

Categories

In this 6th Edition, the initiatives to the following categories can be presented:

  • Entrepreneurs: Addressed to entrepreneurs who show innovation and internationalization of their business model. The year of the foundation must be after 2009 and the companies must have an income of fewer than 1,000,000 euros.
  • Initiatives of Social Innovations: Projects responding effectively to a previously unmet social problem or demand, or that introduce disruptive innovation in response to a problem or demand already addressed.
  • Innovation in Education: projects and models that foster innovation in the education and training.
  • Intrapreneurs: recognition of a natural person who has implemented innovative processes, systems or products in an organization, whether public or private.

 

Deadline

The call is opened until August 31st.

The selected initiatives will obtain the recording of a promotional video in which the winning initiative is reflected and explained. In addition, during one year they will also receive promotion of their activity, opportunities for networking through participation in forums and events and a wide range of training, with the help of high-level speakers.

The specifications of the Generaccion Awards are available at  Generación Awards

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