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【Impact Innovation Lab】Cohort 8 | Seed Funding Applications Now Open!

【Cohort 8 | Seed Funding Applications Now Open! 】

Have innovative ideas to tackle social challenges? Impact Innovation Lab’s Cohort 8 is now accepting seed funding applications! We offer comprehensive resources to help social startups turn their ideas into reality.

Successful applicants will join our incubation programme. During the 6-month programme, they will receive up to HKD 100,000 in seed funding, expert mentorship, access to a makerspace, partner referrals and support to accelerate their development.

Requirements:

  • Permanent residents of Hong Kong who are 18 years old or above
  • Teams of one to five members
  • Proposals focused on pressing poverty issues and the needs of vulnerable groups, especially households living in subdivided units, single-parent households, and elderly households

Across six cohorts, we have selected 55 incubatees, each showing strong potential to address the needs of the underprivileged. Our projects include developing tactile-feedback navigation insoles and an application for visually impaired persons and elders, training underprivileged youths as qualified swimming assistants with career planning, and developing a modest fashion brand for local Muslim women, and more.

Take this opportunity to begin your social innovation project!

Cohort 8 – Apply for Seed Funding

Deadline: By June 20, 2025 (Fri, HKT 17:00)

Online Application: https://impactinnovationlab8.glide.page/

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Impact Innovation Lab 創效實現室社創基金 點子創新 SIE Fund Beyond Innovation

Key Visual designed by @uuendylauUUendy Lau

第八輪計劃 | 現正接受種子基金申請!

有創新諗法去解決社會問題?「創效實現室」第八輪計劃現正接受種子基金申請,為初創社企提供創業所需資源,實現所想!

成功嘅申請者將會成為我哋嘅培育項目,獲得高達港幣十萬元嘅種子基金、顧問指導、創客空間、合作機構轉介等全面支援,喺長六個月嘅培育計劃期間實踐項目。

只要你符合以下要求就可以遞交申請:

  • 18歲或以上嘅香港永久性居民
  • 一至五人一隊
  • 題目必須關注本地貧窮議題、弱勢社群所需,特別係劏房住戶、單親家庭、長者住戶

首六輪計劃合共選出55個培育項目,照顧唔同弱勢社群所需,包括幫助視障人士同長者嘅導航鞋墊及應用程式、培訓基層青年成為游泳助教嘅職涯計劃,以及為本港穆斯林女性而設嘅時尚品牌等等。

把握機會,開展你嘅社創項目!

第八輪計劃 – 種子基金申請

申請日期:即日起至2025年6月20日(星期五,HKT 17:00)

網上申請:https://impactinnovationlab8.glide.page/

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