Participate: UN-GIE STI Forum 2021

Deadline: 26 March, 2021

The United Nations, in collaboration with Global Innovation Exchange, has announced a call for innovations for the Science, Technology Innovation (STI) Forum 2021.

The call seeks innovations developed or adapted to address Covid-19-associated disruptions that will remain relevant beyond the pandemic to help accelerate progress towards one or more of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Benefits

  • Get expert coaching to prepare Ted Talk style lightning talks for the virtual UN stage
  • Showcase expertise and innovation at the STI Forum 2021
  • Engage in peer feedback and learning
  • Network with STI Forum attendees relevant to the innovation – other innovators, those who can support or scale up your innovations, and those seeking to utilise such innovations
  • Receive a recording of the lightning talk to demonstrate they were ‘on stage at the UN’
  • Potentially be included in other learning and exposure activities such as a social media campaign, case studies, and future events

Eligibility

  • The call is open to innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs and sustainability change agents worldwide
  • Innovations should focus on essential nutrition and health care services, particularly HIV, tuberculosis, and maternal, newborn, and child health care services
  • Education innovations should reduce the inequalities Covid-19 has placed on students from low socioeconomic households
  • Innovations should respond or prevent gender-based violence or intimate partner violence
  • Innovations should focus on vulnerable and marginalised populations that have been hit hardest by the pandemic including older persons, persons with disabilities, children, women, migrants and refugees, and indigenous populations

To participate and for more information, click here.

Photo source: Global Innovation Exchange

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