United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme 2026

📖 About the Programme

The UN Global Pulse Accelerator is the United Nations’ initiative to support the scaling of promising, innovative solutions. It ensures that exceptional UN-led pilots maximize their impact for the people they serve. The programme helps UN-led teams develop sustainable, realistic, and impactful scaling strategies for their innovative solutions. Teams with the most compelling strategies will receive:

• Grant funding
• Tailored mentoring to help implement their strategies effectively.

🎁 Benefits

• Selected teams will attend an in-person workshop in Finland from 8–12 February 2026.
• Flights for all participants will be covered by UN Global Pulse.
• Each team can send up to three members to the workshop.

✅ Eligibility Criteria

For the fourth cohort, the programme is looking for solutions that:

• Demonstrate readiness to transition to scale.
• Achieve tangible results in development and/or humanitarian action, leveraging data, digital technologies, and/or AI as enabling components.
  • Solutions may be low-tech, high-tech, or hybrid, provided they are appropriate to the context and problem being addressed.
• Enhance the UN’s delivery of outcomes for people and the planet, supporting UN80 priorities on effectiveness and efficiency, and the Agenda 2030 promise to leave no one behind.

🏆 Selection Criteria

To qualify as an innovation project, it must:

1. Deliver impact by creating or adapting a product, service, process, or system that adds new value.
   • This can be achieved by addressing an existing problem, seizing an opportunity, or meeting an anticipated need.
2. 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

• Deadline: 11 February 2026
• Interested applicants can apply via the official application portal:
  Apply for United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme

🔗 Additional Information

For more details about the programme, visit:
United Nations Global Pulse Accelerator Programme

Make sure to submit your application before the deadline to be considered for this impactful opportunity!

• Selected 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.