World Bank Group Women Entrepreneurship Resilient Cities Competition Resilient Entrepreneurs Make Resilient Cities Starts Thursday March 5th in partnership with IE Business School Do you want to start or expand your own venture? Do you want your project to help in making your city safer, more resilient and more competitive? Do you need the support of business champions to help you transform your new venture into a sustainable business? The World Bank Group in partnership with IE Business School is launching a start-up competition to transform your ventures into sustainable opportunities. Stay tuned for more information on our website! Please read the following requirements before you complete the application to the WE'Resilient Cities Competition! 1.
Location. The business proposed in the WEP application must run or be-willing to run their activities in the following cities: Beirut, Cairo, and Djibouti.
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Pre-Start Ups and Start Ups Only. Organizations for-profit or non-profit must be in prestart or start-up stage and should be ventures with a need for seed or start-up capital. An established organization with a growth project looking to expand its activities is eligible to apply.
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Individuals or Teams. Applicants can participate as an individual or as part of a team of up to six. Each team can include female and male members provided that the team appoints a female team leader. The team leader is the main contact and one other member should be designated as the secondary contact. Ideally, the team leader or the main contact should be conversant in English. The team leader will represent the team in the Grand Finale event (please refer to timetable below). The secondary contact will attend on an exceptional basis.