Women Entrepreneur Award 2025 kicks off

WEA 2025 seeks and supports women entrepreneurs who have pioneering solutions in healthcare and food security, while encouraging initiatives related to climate change. Photo: Thien Di

In 2025, IID is the execution partner of Impact Hub, a leading global incubator of social enterprises with a network of 120 Impact Hubs worldwide, for Bayer Foundation’s Women Entrepreneur Award in Vietnam.

WEA 2025 seeks and supports women entrepreneurs who have pioneering solutions in healthcare and food security, while encouraging initiatives related to climate change.

With a mission to build an impact business ecosystem in Vietnam, IID makes efforts to build a comprehensive roadmap to support individuals and enterprises keen on social impact business, from idea creation to market access, investment, networks, and information gathering, through a global award like WEA 2025.

WEA 2025 is looking for women entrepreneurs who have pioneering solutions in healthcare and food security. Such solutions should have a clear social impact, and a plus point if they are related to climate change. The enterprise generates up to $500,000 in annual revenue. Women entrepreneurs can be a founder, co-founder, or part of the enterprise’s leadership team.

This award will support the female entrepreneurs through a €25,000 ($25,749) cash prize, a sponsored trip to the award ceremony in Europe in June 2025, an accelerated training programme within 6 months, visibility through branded communication activities globally, and access to the global Impact Hub network with 320,000 members.

The registration for the Women Empowerment Award is open from January 7 to February 18, 2025, via the website: https://bayerfoundation-wea.com/ . The award ceremony will be held in Europe in early June 2026.

Bayer Foundation, as Bayer's corporate foundation, generates impact by supporting breakthroughs in science and social innovations that advance social progress worldwide.

The foundation’s mission is to support scientists and social innovators in making the world better and fairer, following its vision of catalysing advances in science and social innovation for a world with health for all and hunger for none.

IID is a pioneering organisation in Vietnam dedicated to fostering and social impact businesses. Established in 2018, it operates with the mission of creating sustainable value ​​for the community through research programmes, innovation, and support for social enterprises.

The organisation connects various resources to build a strong ecosystem for innovation, creativity, and sustainable development, contributing to addressing major social challenges based on data, technology, and global connections.

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30 years of Bayer Vietnam: health for all and hunger for none Present in Vietnam since 1994, Bayer has steadfastly pursued its mission “Health for All, Hunger for None”, fostering strategic collaboration and contributing to the country’s sustainable development goals with the three key focus areas of crop science, consumer health, and pharmaceuticals.

Power of partnerships: 30 years of Bayer in Vietnam By harnessing the power of partnerships, Bayer has established a longstanding presence in Vietnam for the past 30 years to bring sustainable values to millions of Vietnamese.