Excellence Award at Youth Co:Lab Japan Alumni Grand Prix 2025

Coverage: Real Press

On November 20, 2024, the Youth Co:Lab Social Innovation Challenge Japan 2025 Alumni Grand Prix Demo Day was held at Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS) in Meguro, Tokyo.

Youth Co:Lab is a program co-organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Citi Foundation across Asia-Pacific to support youth-led social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Since 2017 it has operated in 28 countries and territories, supporting more than 28,000 young social entrepreneurs and aspirants. In Japan, activities began in 2019 with contests for business ideas advancing the SDGs.

In its seventh year, the event was held as a special Alumni Grand Prix for past winners only. Seven finalist teams were selected from 32 past winning teams, and HAKKI GROUP received an Excellence Award.