Cross-Cultural Conversations on Climate Leadership

Cross-Cultural Conversations on Climate Leadership EOI

Supports climate leadership travel and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs across regions.

Eligibility · Global — open worldwide

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Cross-Cultural Conversations on Climate Leadership is an Expression of Interest run by Climate-KIC (Stichting Climate-KIC International Foundation) that selects two climate entrepreneurs to receive a travel grant to attend AT ONE Impact Week 2026, held 8–12 September in Singapore. The programme aims to facilitate paired bilateral conversations between founders from different global regions, exploring climate leadership within a well-being economy framework. Climate-KIC organises and records these conversations for research purposes.

The award covers return flights, accommodation, and event registration; winners are responsible for visa costs, travel insurance, and documentation fees. Applicants must be founders or co-founders of start-ups, scale-ups, or SMEs based in Asia, Oceania, or Europe, working in climate innovation, circular economy, or sustainability. Fluency in English is required, and participants must be available for a 45-minute online conversation with a paired counterpart between June and August 2026, and must consent to that conversation being recorded. The application deadline is 12 June 2026 at 23:59 CET. Only two grants are awarded per cycle.

Given only two places are funded, the selection is highly competitive relative to programme size. The strongest applicants will be active founders whose current ventures operate at the intersection of climate innovation and cross-cultural market development, and who can contribute substantively to a recorded research dialogue. The programme does not fund product development, research, or operations — its value is network access and profile-building at a Singapore impact summit rather than direct capital support.