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SDG Innovation Accelerator

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Programme duration: February - July 2025

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Empowering the next generation of innovaters

This intensive six-month programme is designed to activate the potential of future business leaders and changemakers. It focuses on the development and implementation of innovative solutions through cutting-edge technologies, initiatives, and business models that contribute to your company's sustainability objectives.

Identify opportunities and create solutions

Interactive sessions with both peers and experts

A “learning by doing” approach

Guidance and support by mentors and experts

Monitor and track your progress throughout a development cycle

Establishe a global network comprising young professionals

Highlights of the programme

The SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals is a unique opportunity that empowers the young talent within your organization to collaborate and drive business innovation that aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Programme experience

Over the six-month duration of the programme, each team of young innovators will work on a challenge specific to their company. Their goal is to design more sustainable business models, initiatives, and products that not only advance the company's sustainability efforts but also drive innovation and deliver tangible solutions with potential market value.


The Accelerator takes participants through a structured design thinking approach, centered around the SDGs. Participants progress through five key phases of the programme, equipped with the necessary resources, tools, and methodologies.

1. SDG exploration

2. Challenge identification

3. Challenge definition

4. Solutions development

5. Solutions testing

Explore the core concepts around business and the Sustainable Development Goals to understand challenges facing business today.

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A few of our alumni

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Questions?

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Firas Abdulhasain

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Join our network

Accelerators, Peer Learning Groups and access to The Academy are exclusively available for participating companies of the United Nations Global Compact. Check out the benefits of joining the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative.