We also offer programs and competitions based on the level of development of your project:
Are you:
An entrepreneur? A job seeker? Someone with an idea?
We can support you!
Join our Programs
Idea Phase
Social Impact Award
The Social Impact Award (SIA) is the first Swiss-wide program of the Impact Hub network and one of the most important programs for the design and development of social enterprises in Europe. It is intended for young people who want to realize their own projects and thus change and improve the world. The program will sensitize young people to entrepreneurship through the workshops, participants will present their ideas for winning a three-month incubation course and a monetary prize.
Prototype Phase
PULSE
Are you an entrepreneur working towards solving a social or environmental problem?
Pulse offers support for swiss-based, early-stage startups focused on developing innovative solutions for the world’s most pressing social or environmental challenges. The 4 most promising teams will receive 4-month incubation support.
Beyond Waste
How can we work together as key actors of the Arc Lémanique
to implement Circular Economy in the region ? Can we move beyond waste ? This implies a substantial transformation of our consumption habits and production methods. This Lab will focus on shifting from our current linear and extractive economic paradigm to a circular, regenerative one.
Beyond Waste is a social laboratory to co-create the roadmap for this transition, and start walking it.
Circular Economy Challenge
Do you have an idea to implement circular economy in the Arc Lémanique region ?
Are you an early-stage startup, or entrepreneur with a service or product that enables circular resources flows ?
Circular Economy Challenge #cechallenge is an incubation programme offering startup support to entrepreneurs developing circular economy solutions. Call for applications in autumn 2018 !
Scaling Phase
Accelerate2030
Accelerate2030 is a program co-initiated by Impact Hub Geneva and the UNDP, with a mission to scale internationally the impact of entrepreneurs working towards achieving positive social and environmental change contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We believe that a paradigm shift towards sustainable business practices is underway, and while providing support in conventional areas of business, we also enable entrepreneurs to integrate sustainable corporate culture through our leadership coaching.
Others
Summerpreneurship
Summerpreneurship brings talented students together with impact-driven startups for a summer internship from June to August 2017. The program is taking place in Geneva, Lausanne and Zürich – head over here for the Zürich edition.
On top of working side-by-side with an entrepreneur, you will be joining an inspiring learning program – Summerpreneurship Academy – that aims to complement your working experience by conveying entrepreneurial, creative and sustainability mindset and skills.