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Award for social innovation
Reto PAIS is a national program and competition executed by Impact Hub San José, which, for its acronym, Award for Social Innovation (PAIS), invites the Costa Ricans to propose innovative ideas for urgent social and environmental problems to be solved in Costa Rica.
The solutions proposed for this edition must respond to the needs of some of the These 5 sectors:
A person or team of people with an idea or solution with a social or environmental impact can participate and be related to any of the sectors in this fourth edition.
There is no age restriction to send the application. Physical figures, as well as enterprises, micro and small enterprises, young or newly established, can participate with less than 30 months of having been constituted with this legal card.
If your idea is selected as a finalist for the CHALLENGE COUNTRY Program, you will have to check that it belongs to one of the categories validated in Law 8634.
winning idea will receive