Swedish Institute Impact Pioneers 2025: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurship

Impact Pioneers ’25 is a leadership programme that sets out to convene leaders and enablers working in organisations and networks seeking to promote the nurture and growth of local entrepreneurship and innovation. The programme takes a starting point in the idea that entrepreneurship is a key driver of both economic and social development, as well as a force that can help accelerate the global green transition. The thematic focus of 2025 is ‘Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurship’, with ‘Climate Tech’ referring to technologies developed and used with the explicit purpose to help people, governments and others both address the sources and impacts of climate change.

Impact Pioneers’25 offers participants the opportunity to:

• Grow from the exchange of experiences with an international community of peers.
• Be supported and inspired by new insights from the Climate Tech Entrepreneurship and Innovation forefront, such as practical cases, tools and frameworks.
• Get first-hand experience of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Stockholm and Sweden, recognised as one of the leading ecosystems in the impact entrepreneurship domain.
• Build long-term relations with Swedish foreign missions as well as Swedish entrepreneurs and organisations that seek to expand international reach, growth and impact.

• Table of Content
• About Swedish Institute
• Impact Pioneers ’25: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurshi
• Aim and Benefits of Impact Pioneers ’25: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurshi
• Requirements for Impact Pioneers ’25: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurshi Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Swedish Institute

The Swedish Institute is a public agency that encourages interest and trust in Sweden around the world. We operate in the fields of culture, education, science and business in seeking to strengthen ties and promote development. We build up lasting relations between Sweden and other countries with a view to enhancing Sweden’s attractiveness. We build up lasting relations between Sweden and other countries with a view to enhancing Sweden’s attractiveness. To this end, we disseminate information, develop skills, promote cultural exchange and cooperation, and provide funding... continue reading

Impact Pioneers ’25: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurshi

Aim and Benefits of Impact Pioneers ’25: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurshi

The Swedish institute arranges and covers costs related to:

• Learning programme
• Flights to and from Sweden for the Sweden week onsite visit
• Accommodation, meals, transportation and insurance while in Sweden

Requirements for Impact Pioneers ’25: Enabling Climate Tech Entrepreneurshi Qualification

The application is open to entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders and practitioners who work in organizations and networks that want to develop their support for entrepreneurs with businesses related to sustainablility and green transition. More specifially, we imagine applicants to work as:

• Startup hub/accelerator/incubation founders and managers
• Tech and innovation hub founders and managers
• University accelerator/incubator managers
• Public sector employees involved in work that supports Climate Tech entrepreneurship

In 2025, the application is open to 26 programme countries (applicants must be a citizen and resident of one of them):

AFRICA: Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia
ASIA: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
EUROPE: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia**, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine*, Türkiye
MENA: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia***

*Ukrainian applicants who reside outside of Ukraine are also eligible to apply.
**Governmental employees in Georgia are not eligible to apply.
***Participants from Saudi Arabia carry their own costs for flights and accommodation, given that Saudi Arabia is not part of Swedish development cooperation funding agreements.

Applicants must meet the following requirements:

• Be a citizen and resident of one of the 26 programme countries
• Work in an organisation or business systematically working to nurture and grow entrepreneurs.
• Have the mandate to develop new international partnerships for your organisation/business.
• Have a good working knowledge of both written and spoken English.
• Be willing to actively participate, provide support and share their experience and knowledge with other participants.
• Have identified opportunities and challenges that could be worked on during the programme to help their organisation improve its contribution to the local Climate Tech entrepreneurship ecosystem

An applicant’s home organisation/business must also meet the following requirements:

• Be locally owned and based in one of the programme countries.
• Be somehow hosting/coaching (or be in the process of starting up hosting/coaching of) entrepreneurs with business ideas that are related to sustainability and green transition.
• Run the organization/business with focus on contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

The application consists of questions to assess formal requirements along with personal motivation. You will also be asked to submit a 60-120 second video and upload your most recent resume/CV.

Please carefully review the  application overview (PDF) in order to be best prepared to submit your application. The overview gathers all questions and requirements in one place.

For more details, visit Swedish Institute Entrepreneurship webpage