- Organization: Lead 2030
- Type: Grant
- Award: $ 50,000
- Application Deadline: September 23,2021
The winning solution will receive:
A US$50,000 grant from AstraZeneca Young Health Programme
12 months of mentorship from a team of AstraZeneca Young Health Programme professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation, such as:
Business strategy
Best practices for data collection
Monitoring and evaluation
Product design
Participation in the One Young World Summit 2022 in Tokyo. Flights and accomodation included.
Aligned: Evidently aligned with the challenge. See ‘About’.
Youth-led: Founded and led by a person aged 18 – 30.
Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
Market ready: Product/service already in market or ready to go to market.
Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, creating legislative change or measuring behaviour change.
Measurable: Impacts of solutions must have been adequately measured and/or be measurable.
Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
Scalable: Potential to perform as well or better after expanding in scope or size and/or being transported to other regions.
Location: a preference will be given to projects which operate in a low- or lower-middle- income country or setting. Projects should also focus on cities or communities with high levels of air pollution or pollution-related illness.
Additional Criteria:
This Lead2030 Challenge will be supported by AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme. To be eligible for this grant, the funding must be payable to a registered non-profit organisation that is accountable for delivering the project.
Projects cannot incorporate treatment of medical conditions or the promotion or prescription of medicines but should instead focus on the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviours and the prevention of disease.