Ninth edition of the Fundación Mapfre Awards for Social Innovation
Find our who the four finalists are
Well-being.
Demographic transformations.
Social inclusion.
With each edition, these Awards have further cemented their position as a benchmark in the field of social innovation.
The ninth edition, which was launched in November 2025, is currently underway. In each of the four designated geographic regions, Brazil, the rest of Latin America, Europe, and the United States. The judging panels have already announced the shortlisted projects. The four selected initiatives will receive mentorship from IE University and will travel to Madrid in May to participate in the Grand Final.
On that day, the overall winner will be selected and will receive a prize of €100,000. The other three finalists will each receive €10,000. In addition, they will all become part of Red Innova.
Once again, the interest our call for entries has generated within the social innovation ecosystem has been enormous. With a total of 469 applications received, the four regional judging panels faced the difficult task of selecting the best projects.
Now, the four finalists are preparing to participate in the Grand Final and demonstrate that their solution to real-world problems is robust, viable, and scalable. Their innovative and socially conscious proposals are already driving change.
The regional judging panels have selected the four shortlisted projects for the ninth edition of the Fundación Mapfre Awards for Social Innovation, which will compete in the Grand Final to be held in May in Madrid. Let us introduce them to you.
If you are considering applying, you can find all the details here. The terms and conditions set out the requirements that your proposal must meet and how the selection process will be conducted. Our awards apply the principles of transparency, rigor and equal opportunities.
All of us help write the future. Social innovation unites technology with objectives that directly affect people’s well-being and improves their quality of life. To learn more about the areas we want to work on with you, click to keep on reading.
The social entrepreneurs of our awards remain connected through this “network of networks” which benefits from peer support and fosters the exchange of expert knowledge, thus contributing to the social innovation ecosystem and advocating a positive impact.
We are connected. Learn from others. We are social beings by nature and the difference lies in our ability to exchange ideas. In this section you will find relevant information to reflect upon, polish your project, discover who else may be working with similar objectives to yours and how that might affect you. Everything is on the move. Keep up to date.
This adventure would not have been possible without the participation of organisations who share our ultimate goal of making this world a better place, and who agree that social innovation is an essential tool to achieve this.