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The K-Startup Grand Challenge 2018 Accepting Applications till June 14 Startups get ready to accelerate. Last year, 1,515 firms from 118 countries competed to be selected for the 2017 K-Startup Grand Challenge, a rigorous startup program in Seoul. 49 of them were selected to participate in a 4 month-long acceleration program and received initial funding and office space. The top 25 teams were then chosen in December at a demo day to receive additional funding of 6 months in order to help them successfully claim their place in the Korean ICT industry.

UN's World Food Programme Launches Accelerator Program in Munich World Food Program Bootcamp (photo courtesy of World Food Program) Solving World Hunger? Isn't that the saying your boss always tells you that you are not trying to solve? The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today stepped up its search for innovative solutions to spur progress towards Zero Hunger by launching an Innovation Accelerator to identify and nurture new, bold responses to humanitarian and development challenges as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals. Based in Munich, the Innovation Accelerator was opened  in August 2015 to further nurture the innovative culture of WFP colleagues while collaborating with external experts from diverse sectors and institutions.  Teams collaborate for three- to six-month periods on selected ideas that are either proposed by WFP innovators with first-hand field knowledge or crowd-sourced by engaging members of the general public.