Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2018

Unilever encourages young entrepreneurs to take part in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by submitting their ideas to Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards. Because the world’s problems will only be solved with the ideas and talents of a new generation of leaders and changemakers, Unilever invites innovative and scalable initiatives contributing to one or more of the following eight categories to apply.

Competition categories:
[1] Zero hunger: aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
[2] Good health and well-being: aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.
[3] Quality education: aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all, and promote lifelong learning.
[4] Gender equality: aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
[5] Clean water and sanitation: aims to ensure access to water and sanitation for all.
[6] Decent work and economic growth: promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth, and employment and decent work for all.
[7] Responsible consumption and production: aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
[8] Climate action: aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards will recognise up to eight winners, including the HRH Prize Winner, in 2018. The eight winners will be selected from a rigorous assessment process led by The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. All eight winners will be invited to an Accelerator Program in Cambridge, before making their final pitches in person to a guest judging panel who will decide on the HRH Prize Winner of the 2018 competition.

All winners will be invited to attend a special prize event hosted in London. The overall winner will receive the ‘HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize’ which is valued at 50,000 euros cash award, in addition to a one-to-one mentoring support tailored to their specific needs for a duration of 12 months. The remaining winners will each receive a 8,500 euros cash award and one-to-one mentoring support for a duration of 12 months.

About Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards:

The awards was launched in 2013 with the aim to recognize and support brilliant young innovators tackling the planet’s biggest environmental and social challenges, and to help them achieve scale for impact. Since the launch of the Awards, Unilever have reached over 3,500 inspiring young sustainability entrepreneurs and their organisations, and provided tailored support and funding to 29 winners.