Bayer Foundation, in partnership with Impact Hub Network, has opened applications for the 2025 Women Entrepreneurs Award, offering 15 winners €25,000 and growth support to overcome barriers in scaling innovative solutions for health and food security.
Bayer Foundation, in partnership with Impact Hub Network, has opened applications for the 2025 Women Entrepreneurs Award, offering 15 winners €25,000 and growth support to overcome barriers in scaling innovative solutions for health and food security.
Women entrepreneurs are driving change with innovative solutions to global challenges. Their diverse perspectives, creativity, and social impact focus position them to build sustainable, scalable models for the future. The award will amplify their work, support scalable social businesses, and connect them to networks that drive transformative change.
Eligibility
The award seeks to support women entrepreneurs driving impactful solutions in the emerging countries’ region, specifically Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. To qualify, applicants must centre their solutions around health and/or food security. Additionally, the solutions should emphasise social or community impact. Applicants are encouraged to integrate this focus into their applications. Addressing climate related issues is a plus, however stand-alone climate-smart solutions will not be accepted.
Themes
Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award aims to support women entrepreneurs engaged in developing sustainable solutions for health, and food security, including:
Health:
- Healthcare Payment Options: Solutions that make healthcare more affordable and accessible for all.
- Community Health Workers (CHWs): Initiatives that empower and support CHWs to deliver better care.
- Health Technologies: Digital solutions that improve access and efficiency in healthcare.
- Fewer diseases: Addressing health issues like infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases worsened by climate change.
- Everyday Health: Enabling Access to Everyday Health Solutions for underserved communities.
Food security:
- Value Chains and Markets: Strengthening food systems to ensure equitable access and fair trade including supporting smallholder farmers.
- Food Waste Prevention: Solutions to minimise waste from production to consumption.
- Healthy and Sustainable Food Access: Initiatives making nutritious food available and affordable.
- Water Justice and Sanitation: Ensuring clean water and sanitation to support food and health systems as well as communities.
- Good Agricultural Knowledge: Teaching basics of good generational agricultural knowledge.
For the full eligibility requirements and application process, visit https://bayerfoundation-wea.com/
The application deadline is February 18th, 23:59 (GMT +1, Vienna, Austria).
