Innovation

The UNICEF Venture Fund invests in nine new startups developing Open Source, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology platforms for accelerating learning outcomes, generating data to forecast health and healthcare needs, and providing access to online tools at lower costs and in low connectivity settings. The UNICEF Venture…

What we do?, UNICEF works with partners from all sectors to promote innovative solutions and develop new methods to implement sustainable and scalable programmes for all children and young people. We are committed to promote four types of innovation that are essential to improve the lives of children in Serbia: Digital innovation Physical and product…, Innovative Solutions in Serbia, NFT Exibition   Interactive mobile app for parenting . Favourite phone counselling service for parents, Halo Beba, launches a new mobile application. Virtual reality for supporting students and teachers.  UNICEF’s Innovation Fund makes first investment in Serbian start-up company creating a virtual reality platform. Innovative digital platform for…, Resources:, Interested in working wit UNICEF?, UNICEF is always looking for novel technology and innovative solutions for children. If you (or your company) are interested in working with UNICEF, please contact on the link below.

The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to make up to $100K equity-free investments to provide early stage (seed) finance to for-profit technology start-ups that have the potential to benefit humanity. , If you’ve got a startup using machine learning (ML), data science (DS), or artificial intelligence (AI), registered in one of  UNICEF’s programme countries , and have a working, open source prototype (or you are willing to make it open source) showing promising results, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking for you.   , To apply, click  here ., *Female-founded startups are encouraged to apply.  Application Deadline: 2 August 2021, The Challenge, The support will ensure the continuity of core health, child protection and educational services for children and their families Nearly 4 billion people (29% of whom are 18-24 year-olds) remain unconnected from the internet, and by extension unconnected to digital products that could dramatically improve their lives. COVID-19 has put a spotlight…, What we're looking for, We are currently looking to invest in companies that are using machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), or data science (DS) technologies to build software solutions that respond to the following questions:  Area 1: Are you creating platforms for personalized services? Or are you providing tools to automate processes and decision-…, Background,   UNICEF’s Innovation Fund  has been specifically designed to finance early stage, Open Source technology that can benefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify “clusters” or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both share markets and also learn about and guide these technologies…

Belgrade, 8 April 2021 - The Serbian Gaming Association (SGA) and UNICEF Serbia have signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of empowering children and young people who use games and gaming platforms to benefit from digitalisation and games in a responsible and safe manner. UNICEF and SGA are guided by the fact that the developers of digital…

Belgrade, 19 March 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Serbia presented 14 most innovative ideas for reduction of air pollution and improvement of air quality in Serbia, received as response to the public call “Clean Air Innovation Challenge“, that UNDP launched in cooperation with UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO).…

Belgrade, 2 March 2021 - The modern interdisciplinary course - The Epidemic – is now available on the free internet platform net.kabinet. The course connects high school knowledge about the phenomenon of epidemics through the prism of biology, chemistry, mathematics and informatics. Users are guided through the course via texts, illustrations,…

Belgrade, 24 February 2021 - The Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, the Centre for the Protection of Infants, Children and Youth and UNICEF, with the financial support of the European Union, launched a new innovative service of the National Children's Line (NADEL) that enables easy reporting of violence and counselling…

Belgrade, Serbia, 5 February 2021 – UNICEF Serbia has been presented with two awards for online excellence by PC Press Magazine, as part of its annual Top 50 Best Things on the Internet Awards , the only official awards for the best websites, social media accounts and mobile applications in Serbia. The website Children and the Internet - Smart…

Belgrade, 3 December 2020 – First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development, Branko Ruzic, Head of the European Union Delegation to Serbia, Ambassador Sem Fabrizi, and UNICEF Representative in Serbia, Deyana Kostadinova, announced today the beginning of the “Bridging Digital Divide for Most Vulnerable…

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” These words by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai could not ring more true. Making sure girls and boys all over the world get good quality education is how we will build a more sustainable, more equal and more peaceful world. Global school closures in response to the COVID-19…, In these most difficult of circumstances, can we still win the battle to educate our children? The answer is a resounding “yes”. But for this, like model students, we will need to work even harder to get the results we want., Deca moraju da se vrate u škole – ali ne može sve biti po starom UNICEF Deca moraju da se vrate u škole – ali ne može sve biti po starom UNICEF Display caption Hide Caption Display caption Hide Caption In response to global pandemic, the European Union and its Member States – Team Europe – have demonstrated the power of working together for better…, Education is essential to human development, which underlies all EU investments in international cooperation and this will be boosted in our development financing for the upcoming period., Deca moraju da se vrate u škole – ali ne može sve biti po starom UNICEF Deca moraju da se vrate u škole – ali ne može sve biti po starom UNICEF Display caption Hide Caption Display caption Hide Caption Indeed, education budgets must be protected from cuts as the global economic crisis bites. Education must be seen as part of the COVID-19 recovery…, Embarking on this huge undertaking means realising that business as usual is not an option. If we learn the right lessons now, we can truly build back better – for our children and their children.

UNDP Serbia, in cooperation with UNICEF and WHO, has announced the Clean air challenge to call proposals for innovative products and technological solutions to reduce air pollution in Serbia and improve air quality. As part of the innovation challenge, UNICEF is especially looking for solutions to mitigate/reduce air pollution's impact on children…

Belgrade, 7 August 2020 – The Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment, together with the Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia, has established a platform donirajplazmu.gov.rs through which all citizens recovering from COVID-19 can apply and donate valuable antibodies which their body created during the disease, and which are used for…