SI Leadership Programmes

We’re looking for leaders with the ambition and potential to drive change for sustainable development. Are you one of them? If so, apply for a SI leadership programme – it will strengthen your leadership skills and build your international network.

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Your journey with SI does not end when you receive your diploma from a leadership programme. You will continue to grow and gain unique opportunities to build your network and knowledge as a member of SI Alumni Network.

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Criteria

Impact Pioneers ’26 MENA

Connecting leaders enabling entrepreneurship and innovation

Available for 7 countries

Open

SI Global Executive Programme

Sustainable business

Available for 24 countries

Opens for applications in February

Impact Pioneers ’26 Europe

Connecting leaders enabling entrepreneurship and innovation

Available for 10 countries

Opens for applications in March

Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) Eastern Europe

Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP)

Available for 6 countries

Closed

Baltic Sea region cooperation, Leadership programmes, Ukraine

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Innovation, Leadership programmes

New perspectives on innovation

When Medea Janjgava joined Impact Pioneers 2025, she was looking for new perspectives on innovation, entrepreneurship, and impact. We met her during Sweden Week – an onsite part of the…

Leadership programmes

Impact Pioneers‘25 convenes in Stockholm to boost climate tech entrepreneurship globally

United by the work of enabling entrepreneurship and by a shared ambition to advance climate tech solutions, 62 leaders from 25 countries have shared an eight-week long journey as participants…