Stories of Impact
Connect with Accelerate2030 at Scaling Week 2022
From the 30th Sep - 6th October 2022 Accelerate2030 and Impact Hub Geneva-Lausanne will host the Sixth Accelerate2030 Scaling Week in Switzerland. Scaling Week aims to connect entrepreneurial champions from across the Global South – working on transformational...
Accelerate2030 at Building Bridges Week
This year, Accelerate2030 Scaling Week is happening alongside the Building Bridges Week in Geneva - the main moment when the Geneva financial community comes together with the development community and businesses to channel more funding for action towards the...
Sixth Accelerate2030 Scaling Week kicking off at The ExperienCE in Switzerland
From the 30th September - 6th October 2022, Accelerate2030 - the world’s leading program for scaling entrepreneurial solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - and Impact Hub Geneva will host the Sixth Accelerate2030 Scaling Week in...
How start-ups from the Global South are redefining innovation for a sustainable future
Tony Kypreos, Accelerate2030 Advisory Board Member, Venture Building & Innovation|Cambridge Judge Business School - "Corporate innovators and venture capitalists in economically advanced markets can learn a lot from entrepreneurs in Latin America, South Asia, and...
Scaling circular innovations through partnerships across borders: the Sampangan and Solubio collaboration success story
Established jointly by Impact Hub and UNDP Geneva in 2016, Accelerate2030 connects entrepreneurs who are creating solutions to achieve the SDGs to the resources and opportunities they need to scale their impact. The program facilitates connection to the Geneva...
Creating a sustainable future by supporting circular innovations
Over the last 50 years, human activities – particularly the burning of fossil fuels – have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses to affect the global climate. The resulting changes in the global climate bring a range of risks to...
Connecting the most promising SDG entrepreneurs with the Geneva ecosystem to catalyze solutions for the Agenda 2030
“Our experience with the A2030 program has been extremely positive. We have gained access to global networking and financing opportunities, and it has shown us that change is possible” - Andrés Martínez, Founder & CEO of VIC, Accelerate2030 2021 global finalist...
Women entrepreneurs breaking barriers for a sustainable future
For 2022, the United Nations (UN) theme for the commemoration of International Women's Day was ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’ - celebrating the work of women and girls in fighting climate change and ending the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the...
Collaboration in Venezuela: Building Multi-stakeholder partnership through and beyond Accelerate2030
Since 2016 UNDP Venezuela and the Impact Hub Caracas have cultivated a solid relationship. Their partnership began in the first edition of the Accelerate2030 program, bringing these two neighbours who were physically located in the same building to finally meet with...
Business as a Force for Good: Partnership among United Nations Global Compact and Impact Hubs in Brazil
Setting the Scene. On the first day of Accelerate2030’s bootcamp in Belo Horizonte in Brazil in 2019, the 35 ventures present were asked if any of them had implemented a Theory of Change. The answer? Only 5 of them. They were then asked if any of them had impact...
Taking Collaboration to the Next Level: UNDP’s Accelerator Labs and Impact Hub Cambodia’s joint efforts
Entrepreneurship and innovation are fundamental to achieving the SDGs because they provide the creativity and drive that you need to realise something that at first brush seems an impossible dream. The SDGs are hugely ambitious, so to achieve something like that, you...
Accelerate2030 in Serbia: Making the Best of Both Worlds
Syncing compatibility to drive a circular economy theme. When IH Belgrade and the UNDP Country Office in Serbia started their collaboration in 2019, they wanted to ensure they were focusing on the country’s priorities, leveraging each other’s strengths, and building...
Accelerate2030 Turkey: Mobilizing partnerships for Global Goals
Accelerate2030 Program in Turkey is the best practice for the collaborations undertaken to understand the concept of social entrepreneurship, which is relatively new in Turkey, and the strengthening of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. The program sets an...
Accelerate2030 Partnerships: Innovations in Health with UNAIDS
El siguiente es un blog invitado escrito por nuestros socios de ONUSIDA. Pradeep Kakkattil es el director de la Oficina de Innovación de ONUSIDA en Ginebra. Elina Viitaniemi es asesora de innovación en ONUSIDA. Hace unos años, los gobiernos de todos los estados...
Scaling For Good: Guest Blog, Louise Le Gat, Facilitator & Transformation Coach
The following post was written by Accelerate2030's trusted coach and partner, Louise Le Gat. Louise has been involved with Accelerate2030 since the beginning of he programme, providing her expertise to our Global Finalists, and this year to more than 150...
2019 Stories of Entrepreneurs: Laura Mendoza, Unima, Mexico
The following blog is the first in a series of stories of the 2019 Accelerate2030 Global Finalist Cohort. Check back to read more about this amazing cohort! This blog was written by Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder of Unima. My name is Laura. I am a Mexican mother of...
The Power of Coaching – Scaling Social Enterprises Globally
A2030 program coordinators decided to expand the leadership and resilience pillar of the program and pilot the introduction of a personal coaching component.
Stories from partners – Boston Consulting Group
Partners are crucial for Accelerate2030. Evgeniy Akulich from consulting company BCG, one of Accelerate2030 program’s most important partners, tells about BCG’s experience on the collaboration.
How Has A2030 Benefited Local Communities?
Partners are crucial for Accelerate2030. Evgeniy Akulich from consulting company BCG, one of Accelerate2030 program’s most important partners, tells about BCG’s experience on the collaboration.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: Syafunda
Affordable and accessible education is still not provided everywhere in the world. Having personally experienced a shortage of teachers, Zakheni Ngubo developed Syafunda; an online platform for students providing access to localised digital content.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: SALt
Together they run their social enterprise called SALt, the acronym for Sustainable Alternative Lighting. Their mission is to address the light inequality gap between people who have electricity and people who have not. We had the opportunity to speak with Raphael about his journey with SALt.
Meet the 2017 Global Finalists: HearX
With already seven start-ups under his belt, Nic Klopper is always looking for new opportunities. He is without a doubt a true entrepreneur at heart. When he was asked to lead the effort to commercialize hearX Group’s intellectual property, he didn’t hesitate to take on the challenge. His hard work has paid off, as hearX’s technological solution for hearing screenings has become a leader in the industry.