Applications are currently being accepted for the United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme
The UN Global Pulse Accelerator is the United Nations’ programme to support the scaling of promising, innovative solutions, ensuring that exceptional UN-led pilots maximize their impact for the people we serve. The programme supports UN-led teams in developing sustainable, realistic and impactful scaling strategies for their innovative solutions. Those with the most compelling strategies will be awarded a grant and tailored mentoring to help implement them.
Benefits of United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme
- Selcted teams will attend an in-person workshop in Finland from 8-12, 2026, with three members from each team expected to attend. UN Global Pulse will cover flights for all participants.
United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme Requirements
For our fourth cohort, we’re looking for solutions that:
- Demonstrate their readiness to transition to scale.
- Demonstrate their ability to achieve tangible results in development and/ or humanitarian action, with data, digital technologies and/ or AI serving as enabling components. Approaches may be low-tech, high-tech or hybrid, provided they are appropriate to the context and problem being addressed.
- Will enhance the UN’s delivery of outcomes for people and planet, support UN80 priorities on effectiveness and efficiency and the central promise of Agenda 2030 to leave no one behind.
Selection Criteria
- To qualify as an innovation project, it must show how it delivers impact by creating or adapting a product, service, process, or system that adds new value. This can be done by addressing an existing problem, seizing an opportunity, or meeting an anticipated need.
- Additionally, the innovation project must be led by at least one UN entity. Projects run solely by non-UN entities, or those only endorsed, branded, or funded by the UN, will not be considered
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
11 February, 2026
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