Deadline: 08 November, 2020
The Swiss Re Foundation has announced a call for entries for the Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award 2021.
The award recognises entrepreneurial initiatives that take innovative approaches to build resilient societies and realise the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The 2021 Resilience Award focuses on innovative solutions that increase financial access to healthcare in low-income communities.
Benefits
- Three finalists are invited to pitch their ventures face-to-face to an award jury consisting of senior Swiss Re experts, academic representatives, and selected Swiss Re clients
- Total prize money of USD 700,000 is divided amongst the winners
- Finalist with the most votes receives the ‘Employee Award’ and a special prize
Eligibility
- Entrants must have savings solutions that make it easier and cheaper for people to allocate resources to healthcare
- Entrants must have payment solutions that make healthcare more affordable and/or better adapted to cash-flow constraints or that boost compliance with chronic disease treatment
- Entrants must have credit solutions for covering more expensive treatments
To enter and for more information, click here.
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