OUR COMPETITIONS

Four global programmes. One mission.

FLAGSHIP · ANNUAL

SVF Global Innovation Challenge

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2026 EDITION
$1.0M
total prize capital deployed across 26 laureates
AGES 16–22

SVF Youth Innovator Cup

VERTICAL · BIENNIAL

SVF Climate Solutions Prize

FOUNDERS

SVF Women in Tech Award

PROGRAMME NOTES

One standard across four programmes

CHOOSING

Which programme should we enter?

CALENDAR

Calendar overview

Mar – Jun

Global Challenge — applications

Jul – Aug

Youth Innovator Cup — summer camps

Sept

Climate Solutions Prize (biennial)

Nov

Women in Tech Award — NYC ceremony

TRAINING ARTEFACT

A social-problem claim you can check

Applications closed 15 June 2026. Remaining published stage: 14 November finals. Unique role of this site: social-innovation project stages. Invented demonstration — not an SVF laureate.

FieldWriteInvented fill (one clinic waiting room)
WhoA named public, not “communities.”Afternoon patients in one public clinic queue, with the clinic’s written permission to observe.
NeedWhat fails today, in a sentence you can time.Triage notes are rewritten by hand between the window and the nurse, losing about twelve minutes per person.
Evidence already in handDates, n, and a source a reviewer can follow.Three observed afternoons; n = 18 timed handoffs; no claim this is a city average.
AssumptionWhat would have to be true for the intervention to matter.Staff will use a paper-plus-phone log if it is faster than rewriting.
InterventionWhat you will actually try, with whom.A one-page log trialled on two further afternoons with the same desk.
BoundaryWhere the claim must stop.One desk. Not a national health system. Not a Hult Prize affiliation.
REVIEW & SUPPORT

Conflict, feedback, next test

Same log on FAQ. Support conditions stay inside published SVF prize and programme text.

ItemWrite
ConflictAdvisor, family, current funder, former school. Recuse that sheet; do not empty the whole panel.
Feedback on recordDate, which published criterion, one sentence the team can act on. Not a corridor recap.
Next verification taskSmaller than a “scale strategy.” One measurement the team can finish.
Support in scopeOnly what this brand has published: prize text, and a later accelerator window as first-party programme text — a later window stays unpublished until posted.

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