FUNDING
Call for proposals: Business Ideas for Development Start-up Competition (Up to EUR 7,000 Funding)
Closing Date: 9 March 2025
Call for proposals: Business Ideas for Development Start-up Competition (Up to EUR 7,000 Funding)
Start-up competition Overview
Do you live in Germany and originally come from one of the following countries: Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Serbia, Tunisia, or Viet Nam?
Do you have an innovative business idea for your country of origin that is ready to be implemented? Business Ideas for Development (BID) supports you in starting your business.
Business Ideas for Development offers:
- Up to EUR 7,000 for services that are essential to implement your business idea
- Nine months of individual support and coaching in Germany and abroad
- Depending on the implementation phase: support in deepening market research, optimising your business plan, or further developing your start-up
- Assistance in finding investors and other useful business contacts
- An inspiring network with many other aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups from different countries
Eligibility
You must meet the following criteria in order to take part in the Business Ideas for Development Start-up competition:
- The implementation of your innovative business idea will have a positive impact in your country of origin because your future company will offer solutions to existing social or ecological problems there and because it will create jobs and thus prosperity and new prospects.
- You already have a mature business idea and a business plan for your start-up and would like to put your idea into practice in your country of origin in the upcoming months. If you only have a rough business idea and no business plan yet, this start-up-competition isn’t for you!
- You or another person from your start-up team is currently registered as a resident in Germany. This is important for contractual reasons.
- At the time of your selection by Business Ideas for Development, your business has not yet been officially established. Or you have already founded your business, but are still in the start-up phase.
- Your start-up project appears feasible within the light of the prevailing conditions, opportunities and limitations in the target country.
- You must be convinced that you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
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