 Hi, my name is Andre Robertson-Bait and I'm here from the Evan Hatterie Fellowship. I'm joined by Alina Siegfried, who's our content and communication lead. Kia ora everybody, how's it going? And today we have the pleasure and opportunity to share with you about EHF. So we're going to cover off in a couple of different parts. We're going to start with Alina describing what EHF is, talking about the fellows, living and working in New Zealand. And then after that, I'm going to share a bit about how we select and about our selection process. Our plan is to leave a lot of space for Q&A. So if you have questions, feel free to add those into the Q&A little box. And we might cover some of them off as we go, but we'll definitely come back to a bunch of them at the end as well. So keep the questions coming and we can keep it interactive. Also, we're recording this call and we plan to share it with some people who registered, but weren't able to join or some others that would like to learn more about the fellowship. Okay, I'm going to pass it over to Alina. Thank you, Andre. Welcome everybody. Really pleased that you could all join us today and learn a little bit more about the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. What we are really looking to build and achieve with EHF is a global community of change makers. And the home base for our operations is here in New Zealand, obviously. And so a lot of our fellows will be basing themselves here, but we're looking really to build a global community beyond New Zealand. So there are other ways that fellows can contribute from afar, or perhaps look at more of a long-term plan to come into New Zealand as well. So I think at the heart of what we are doing, it's a fellowship community, more so than an incubator or an accelerator or other such programs. As I've said there, we're looking for a global community that can really help us create impact from New Zealand and ripple throughout the world. We're looking to provide a platform and I guess a place for you to collaborate and grow together. And that can happen either as individuals or with the mentorship of our team and our wider networks, as well as your fellow fellows. Tied up within that is a world-class support network. So we're investing a lot in developing partnerships with other communities of impact around both New Zealand and the world to be able to support our fellows in their work. And lastly, really looking for our fellows to develop a long-term connection with this country. So to establish some deep roots here, whether that be moving yourselves and or your families here, or whether that be helping connect New Zealand entrepreneurs and investors and change makers with the rest of the world. So there's a number of ways that you can develop your connections with this country as well. I'm going to introduce a few of our fellows here because I think that's a fantastic way to really orient you and give you some examples of the profiles of the type of people that we are looking to join this program. Emeline is one of our Cohort One fellows. She's from the Philippines originally and is essentially an international space consultant. So between her and her partner in work and life, Eric, the two of them have over 50 years experience in the international space industry. They've helped build up the International Space University. Between them, their goal in New Zealand is to build a democratized space ecosystem here. So what that means is essentially making sure that the benefits of space technology and the applications of it in terms of environmental monitoring, in terms of remote sensing and all the other sort of positive impact applications of space technology are shared by everyday people in that space is accessible to more and more people. And we're seeing definitely a trend for that worldwide rather than it being just in the realm of governments and large corporations. So that's their mission is to really make space accessible to the everyday person. Audrey Tan is again one of our Cohort One fellows. She has co-founded an organization called Angels of Impact that operates mainly out of Singapore but across the whole Southeast Asian region. And what her and her co-founders do is they connect angel investors and mentors to primarily women led ventures in the Southeast Asia region. So they work a lot with small to medium businesses, micro enterprises, social enterprises and the types of organizations that are really helping to lift women out of poverty and see women as key players in bringing their communities along with them and developing some and commercializing some ideas and some of the skills that they have. This is Raphael. He is one of our investor fellows. And he's originally from I think he's based himself these days in the Silicon Valley area and is looking to really work with entrepreneurs that are solving complex problems and that are thinking about things a little bit differently. So he's had a long history with different venture funds is looking now at establishing his own organization, his own venture fund here in New Zealand and to work with entrepreneurs as I said that are really pushing the boundaries and tackling big complex problems of significance to humanity. And this is Alana. She's one of our Kiwi fellows. So in addition to international fellows, which will get access to the global impact visa, which Andre will tell you a little bit about later on, EHF also accepts New Zealanders into the program. And we do that so that we have some great cross-pollination of ideas that Kiwi fellows can help the international fellows hit the ground running in New Zealand and help orient themselves. Whereas the international fellows can help the Kiwi fellows think about taking their work global. So again just coming back to that idea of really creating a diverse community that can help each other in different ways. So Alana's venture is called A Little Bit Yummy. Drawing on her own personal experiences, she has developed a website that provides advice and recipes for people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, which is quite a wide swath of the population really. There's about I think 11 percent of the global population suffer from some sort of irritable bowel syndrome. So a key thing about her website is that each of her recipes have been approved by a dietitian, a registered dietitian. So there's some scientifically backed resources going into this community platform for helping people with a debilitating condition be able to actually live fulfilling healthy lives. I'm going to talk to you a little bit now about what it actually means to be an EHF fellow and what's involved in being part of the fellowship. One of the key things that we orient ourselves around the year is our New Frontiers summits and cohort retreats. Now these happen twice a year. We do a New Frontiers summit in a cohort welcome week every time we accept a new cohort, which is roughly every six months. And New Frontiers is a great opportunity to introduce our new fellows to the New Zealand startup ecosystem and the business community. And we have a very wide range of people attending that summit as well from across New Zealand and around the world. It's often a good starting point for people who might be interested in the program. If they're able to come to New Zealand and make a New Frontiers summit, that's often their first introduction into the EHF community and a chance to talk with people about what kind of impact New Zealand needs, what kind of projects are going on here. We have regional gatherings as fellows are starting to move into New Zealand and those are largely fellow driven at this point. So as we see a critical mass of people gathering in certain cities, fellows are taking upon themselves to have regular meet-ups or give presentations at local startup hubs and co-working spaces. And we expect to see that growing more and more around the country as we get more and more of cohorts of fellows coming through. At the moment, we have pretty active communities in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland. We have a few in Hamilton as well, but we expect to see a lot more of that happening out in further regional New Zealand as well. Because a lot of our fellows are still spread across the world, there's a big component of online connection on here and a formal collaboration. So this is very much part of that is organic as well in terms of seeing how the community come together. They get a chance to come together and meet at Welcome Week and a lot of those connections and collaborations get sparked off at that time. A really nice example of that is one of our cohort one fellows, Denise Chapman-Weston, who's got a long history of developing sort of entertainment and education-based theme park technologies, is collaborating with one of our cohort two fellows who's looking to make renewable energy much more accessible and equitable. So they're looking at a collaboration together to get renewable energy and a lot of theme parks around the world. In terms of the online connection, we're in this process of building up an online community hub for all things fellow collaboration and a bit of a one-stop shop for all things EHF, so that's something that we're working on as well. Throughout all of this, the EHF team really looks to support however we can with our fellows. As I mentioned before, EHF isn't an accelerator or an incubator as such. We don't take the quite the same hands-on approach as some of those types of programs. We're a community of support so that means that the fellows are very much in the driver's seat in terms of how they direct their ventures, their projects and collaborations and that our team is here to assist as and when we're needed to give advice to make introductions to help people in whatever way makes the most sense and that will be very much on an individual basis. So there's no one way that our team supports it very much depends on your own situation. Here's a few shots just of our new frontiers gatherings. So as you can see it's very much a place where you can get experiment with some new technologies. We have panel discussions, we have speaker presentations, our fellows, our new fellows present their work and we invite everybody from entrepreneurs and investors through to government officials, key artists and musicians, educators, farmers and everybody really from all types of industries because the most important thing about EHF is that we recognize that in order to make and create the type of positive change in direction that that we need across the world everybody is needed on this journey. So everybody's skill sets are going to be required. A little bit here just outlining what the EHF ecosystem really looks like and you'll see in the inner circle there is the core I guess elements of what's happening around the fellowship program. So you've got your fellows of course. We have fellows who've been through the the initial three-year period who then become alumni of the program and keep on supporting other fellows. You've got obviously the ventures they're creating we are really lucky to be able to partner with Immigration New Zealand on this program. So EHF is the fellowship program that provides access to Immigration New Zealand's global impact visa which is a new form of visa. It's sort of custom built for this program and represents the first immigration policy in the world really to focus on assessing people on the kind of positive impact that they can create. And we've got obviously startup teams and investment funds that are supporting those those key areas as well. In the wider circle we've got much more of our our New Zealand community and and our global community there as well. So we do have good relationships with other incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces around New Zealand, economic development agencies and so on. Callaghan Innovation is New Zealand's government-driven innovation arm that supports a lot of research and development. There's a few other government organizations that we work quite closely with. We also work with education and crown research institutes that are driving a lot of innovation and research and development in New Zealand. And then at a global level we're always looking to work more with global ambassadors of the program, leading entrepreneurs who are really leading work in their fields, investors likewise. We have an independent selection panel for the program who make final decisions. And then the final one I'll mention is the Hillary Institute of International Leadership which is IHF's parent company. They have a group of global laureates. They select one laureate per year who is always a person who is working in their mid-career to make positive change on a global level. So that's a bit of a Nobel prize for change makers. Last year's laureate was Johan Rockstrom from the Stockholm Resilience Center. This year's laureate has just been announced and she is Megan Filone from the Barefoot College which works to empower and support women around the world, particularly in developing countries to start enterprises and to learn technology skills. So that's a bit of an overview of our ecosystem which is continually growing. I'm just going to talk a little bit now about why New Zealand? Why have we decided to root this program in New Zealand? So we see New Zealand having a lot of the key ingredients of really being a strong incubation nation. We have strong political rights and civil liberties here which allow you the freedom to try things which might not be possible in other countries. We're the least corrupt country in the world. We continually top that ranking from Transparency International and the second most peaceful country in the world. So things are generally very stable here. We have an incredible culture nationwide really. We're a leader in Indigenous relationships and particularly in harming some of the wounds of colonisation which we've seen in different Westernised countries around the world. We have in New Zealand the foundation of our nation is the Treaty of Waitangi which was a treaty signed between the Māori people and the Crown back in 1840 and while there have been some grievances of that treaty, the government is going through a process now of repairing and providing settlements to help correct some of those historical grievances. We were the first country in the world to give women the right to vote. So very progressive in that regard and very diverse nation. So Auckland as a city is more diverse than London or New York or many of the world's other sort of large cities. I think it's second only to Vancouver in terms of diversity and very creative here. We're very resourceful because we've been stuck at the bottom of the world away from a lot of other countries for a long time and generally very happy open people. And in terms of actually growing businesses and developing businesses here, the World Bank has ranked us first in the world for the ease of doing business. Placed where we are geographically, we have strong trade relations with the both the east and the west which makes us quite unique in terms of being able to work with both. We have a great education system here and so a well educated workforce that fellows can tap into. And because as we said before we have been geographically isolated for much of a history, we've really learned a fantastic DIY culture down here in terms of people thinking outside the box and just getting on with it, tinkering in the back shed and doing things. So we have a neat story here in that New Zealand are invented the world's first personal jet pack which I think is making some waves. Facebook and other big tech companies regularly use New Zealand as a test market for first adopter sort of audiences. As we represent a small subset of the population that is technology savvy and uses a lot of these tools. But again it's just a small compact market where you can quickly test ideas. Google also launched Project Loon in New Zealand which is their project to provide wireless internet from giant weather balloons and to provide that for everybody in the world. So that's quite a neat example. I'm going to briefly talk through a few examples of companies that have really showcased New Zealand's innovation community. Weta Digital is one that a lot of you will be familiar with. They're behind Avatar, a lot of the Lord of the Rings movies, King Kong and lots of other sort of big Hollywood blockbusters at the moment. So really leading from Wellington there. Zero is an accounting software firm which has really made it big out of New Zealand. They have a multi-billion dollar valuation and they're based again here in Wellington. Lanza Tech is a really awesome company who are working to capture waste industrial gases and carbon and to help turn that into useful products like aviation fuel. So they've got an exciting project working with Virgin Airlines to take waste gases and essentially be able to provide green fuel for airplanes. Rocket Lab is an organization that are launching rockets into space from here in New Zealand. And that's really cool because it represents a really a growing industry in New Zealand. We have clear open skies over this country which you perhaps don't get in bigger countries with a lot more flight paths. So there's really a lot of things going for the development of a thriving space industry here and we're seeing quite a few hubs around the country popping up in Southland in the Hawkes Bay of space communities that are starting to really grow. So Rocket Lab I think in the last year has launched two or three successful rockets into space and they're starting to look at taking commercial payloads as well. Sunfed Meats is an interesting example of an organization or a company here in New Zealand that are using plant-based proteins, so PE proteins to create replacement meat products. So much more I guess is producing proteins in a much more environmentally sustainable way than traditional agriculture. And Inspiral is a really great example of a collaborative network of largely freelancers, entrepreneurs, creatives and change makers who operate like a sort of a network, an online community of people working on stuff that matters is what they say. So it's a really interesting example of what started out in New Zealand as a small community but has turned into a somewhat of a transnational collective of people who get membership into the organization and are doing really neat things together and they work as a non-hierarchical organization, a kind of community of about 300 people these days. So it's a fascinating model to look at how we can achieve things together. I'm going to at this stage hand over to Andre to tell you a little bit more about the kind of qualities that we're looking for in fellows and how to get involved. Thanks for that Alina, I appreciate it. Just before as well there a few other pieces I'm keen to cover so don't currently have any slides so I'll just cover cover it off verbally. So first just around describing the global impact visa which those from overseas if you're accepted into the program will be eligible to apply for. So first thing to say about it is that it's a super open and permissive visa. There was a question from one of the Q&A comments asking around how the visa enables people to travel to other countries and in person requirements. So it's permissive in the sense that there are no in-country requirements for the visa. You're required to be here for welcome week but beyond that you're able to spend as much time in other parts of the world as you need to. So it's really designed for global citizens. It also has the option for you to apply for permanent residency after about three years and assuming that you're a continued part of the EHF community and there are some steps to apply for it but it's a lot easier than starting from scratch. So that's a little bit about the global impact visa which EHF is the program that the visa fits with and the only way to get the visa is to apply for EHF. So as Alina mentioned it's a specifically designed visa to attract people who are doing a high impact work and it fits hand in glove with the EHF community. Just one other piece adding to what Alina mentioned before around why come to New Zealand and it's a combination of connecting with our fellows and it's a great community of people who are doing amazing work so connecting in with those. The other thing that Alina was sharing around about New Zealand is that it's a great place to get things done and it's a small place and you can do stuff at national scale very quickly. So for example Rocket Lab which Alina mentioned before Rocket Lab there was no legislation or space industry but they decided they want to do it from New Zealand they chatted with the government and built a now we have a space agency and we have an enabling legislative framework. So New Zealand's a place that's open for business and you can create the right environment very quickly compared to some other places. Okay so now and the other piece to mention actually as well is keep the questions coming. I've covered off part of one of them now but keep them coming and we'll come to a bunch of them towards the end as well. I'm going to share a little bit now about our selection criteria and there are five that are listed here and you can read more on the link down at the bottom, ehf.org. So the first pieces around people have a bold vision to do work that's going to make a positive impact in the world. So something that is going to address systemic challenges. So something that's going to make a big dent in the universe if it works and a passion for doing things in a different way that are innovative. So that's the first one a bold vision to solve systemic challenges. The second one is about your ability to deliver on that vision so big ideas are not enough you also need to be able to demonstrate that you have an ability to actually get things off the ground and what we'd say on that is we try to take a broad sort of lens on how we assess your ability to get things done or your ability to deliver on your vision. So we'll be looking for example at what you've done with the venture that you're currently working on and other ventures that you've been involved with as well and not just traditional startups but also any other types of non-profit work that you've been doing or other work you've been doing in your career so kind of pulling together the different pieces from your work to try and get a sense of your ability to actually get new things that are going to be going to be solving systemic challenges. The third piece is around building long-term connections with New Zealand and so there are different ways of doing this one is to move your family or your venture to New Zealand but it's also EHF is designed so that there are other ways of doing that as Lena mentioned before so if you're an investor you can you know you can leverage investment capital that you're linked to other parts of the world you can connect New Zealand to your connections from wherever in the world that you're based or connected to. So there are different ways of connecting with New Zealand and we kind of look at that and identify you know what or ask the question of how meaningful is your connection with New Zealand what do we see connecting through New Zealand and how will that provide benefit for you and also a benefit for New Zealand. The fourth selection criteria is around your ability to actively and positively contribute to the EHF community so we're after people who are going to be great community members people who are going to be great people to work with people who are going to be generous and actively engaged and people that we can see ourselves working with over a long period of time. Our fifth selection criteria is around being great ambassadors for New Zealand and that involves embodying and demonstrating EHF's values so bold vision ability to deliver on it you can you can do work through New Zealand and connect with New Zealand over the long term and you can contribute to the community and you'll be a good ambassador. On that long term connection to New Zealand piece as well actually just adding to that so we recognise that for some people they're not ready to move everything to New Zealand straight away sometimes it can take a little bit of time and different people's circumstances will will affect what that looks like for them so we're open to looking at what that looks like in your situation and trying to figure out you know how that works. The other thing we'd say about the selection criteria is it's not just a tick box exercise of AIIP do they you know have they met um have they kind of met some level of it it's it's looking I guess kind of it shades of gray in the sense that you know how if you have a bold vision you know how bold is it or what kind of impact what kind of level of impact is it going to make in the world if you're able to deliver on a vision like what kind of level of ability to deliver do you bring so it's not just black and white tick box it's more like a more like a scale of of you know what to what level of strength do you give to that particular criteria but also it's not just it's not just a tick tick box exercise we're looking at how the different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fit together so like you know how does your your application as a whole across those five criteria how does that look how does that go here does that does that make sense okay now we're going to cover how to get involved so this is talking a little bit about how to apply for EHF key dates okay so applications are now open for our fourth cohort the early bird deadline is on the 1st of august so that's coming up in a couple of weeks time then and the early bird deadline gives you a discount to our application fees so that's the reason for getting in before the 1st of august the next step is our our final deadline for any cohort for applications are due by the 2nd of september and every six months we have a you know roughly every six months we have a new cohort so if you're if you apply after you know if you don't get inbought by 2 september then then it would make sense for you if you wanted to to apply for cohort five or another cohort then once we've accepted all applications we crank into our selection process and and the next slide i'll cover that often a little bit more detail but broadly it goes from september through to november then and probably be late november possibly even very early december we will let people know whether they've been accepted into EHF and for some people we might be able to give some some guidance on that earlier in the selection process but definitely by end of november possibly very early december we will have decided who is often a place in the fellowship and then for those who are internationals the next step for you is to apply for a global impact visa and you apply for a global impact visa from immigration new zealand and we look at kind of different things so at EHF we're looking at the selection criteria i mentioned before the the immigration you did they'll be looking um you can see more on immigration and data website by the way in terms of their criteria but they'll be looking for things like character in terms of police checks they'll be looking for things like your health um and you can as i mentioned learn more on the website then the idea is that people would have uh internationals would have their global impact visas uh processed and hopefully awarded um in time for the um the welcome week in march next year and then after that the fellowship begins and that goes on for a bunch of time and as we mentioned there is the option after three years to apply for permanent residency a bit more about the selection process so first step is to apply online and you can go to ehf.org forward slash apply and go and submit your online application so we we've actually simplified it since prior cohorts so we hope that it's easier and clearer and simpler than ever it might take around half an hour at at least half an hour to to do and it involves answering some questions about yourself it involves submitting a video um that's an optional but highly recommended um question um as well as keep providing a bit of demographic info then once you've applied online we do a bunch of interviewing of candidates we often do a short interview um for some and then a and then a longer one and we interview references for those who are shortlisted for that as well then then once the ehf team has done all our work in terms of reviewing applications and and um videoing and reference checks we then um put forward a final short list to our independent selection panel and they're independent from the ehf team they they're the ones that make the final decision about if anyone should be offered a place in the ehf fellowship so a reminder of key dates early bird applications close the first of august so a couple of weeks away and then on the 2nd of september is the final deadline for cohort for applications and welcome week is an early march next year and that's in wellington new zealand as well how do you apply there's the link ehf.org forward slash apply um you bunch of you have already connected on our website um in terms of fees so there are different prices depending on your circumstances so if you're an international entrepreneur their price is 600 new zealand dollars plus 400 per additional team member who's also applying for ehf and if you're applying as an investor the price is 1100 new zealand dollars there are scholarships available until the 1st of august august rather um and if you go to ehf.org forward slash apply there'll be a scholarship application form there that need base and the idea there is that um for people in particular economic need we can um we can have a reduced cost option there's also a discount for new zealanders as well we should also point out i think that these uh these are additional application fees um i think i just want to check with you andre and that there yeah there are um there are additional application acceptance fees that are payable only if you're uh accepted into the administrative fellowship um so this makes it a bit more accessible upfront um for for people to apply and then um and then additional fees are paid by those who actually are successful in getting into the program that's correct and those additional fees are only for those who are international investors and entrepreneurs as well so um those who have a scholarship have a less uh a lower um fee if they're if they accept their offer in the fellowship and kiwis have no no additional fee at that point okay let's pass it over for questions um so maybe we just go from the top so question from janelle is um your idea is something you've been working on for about three years um i would consider a pivot that's trying to solve the same problem but taking a radically different approach does it make it too early for you to apply so what i'd mention there is and maybe it's covered off in terms of our selection criteria so um another key thing which i didn't mention was we focus on the person rather than the rather than the venture so we're looking at your ability as an entrepreneur we're not just testing business plans we obviously learn about people's ability as an entrepreneur through the progress that you've made or what you plan to do or how you're thinking about it or what you've done in the past but we're primarily focused on what kind of potential as an entrepreneur or in terms of this part of our selection process we focus on your potential as an entrepreneur rather than just what do we think about this venture um albeit that there's the connection between the two so so there's no not necessarily a black and white rule around whether you're too early what i'd say is the more that you can show your your track record as an entrepreneur that will um that will help us um have confidence in that area but there are different ways to do that if you have an established track record then we can look at that and we um if your new venture is um has less progress then um then we will have more confidence from previous ventures of your entrepreneurial capability next up someone says they have no venture now but they have some ideas would it be a good idea to apply as an entrepreneur or investor so it really depends on how you will you know what you'll do if you're someone who's going to be building a venture and that's your primary reason for you know primary thing you'd be doing is to build a new venture um whether that be an NGO or a movement or a company then that's an entrepreneur if you're primarily someone who's going to help support others um through mentoring and through putting in money then that's an investor so it's not so much based on the idea stage that you're at it's more based on um what you'll be doing then another question is how mature an idea must be to be eligible for the program um we've I think I'm going to cover that off a lot in the second to last question and how mature an initiative must it be um so it's based on entrepreneurial potential so um you know if you've knocked something out of the park then that shows your potential um if you have yeah if you've not if you've done things in the past that we can look at then um then that gives us confidence so it's not just the current venture is the the short answer and next question is I saw there's also there are work rights so if we wish to live in New Zealand and the startup has no capital we can work say 20 hours a week to afford food and rent and then throw ourselves into the project the rest of us spare time so the visa does allow people to work in New Zealand and it enables you to invest and it enables you to start up or to bring a new venture to New Zealand um it's primarily it's not primarily designed towards people who just plan to um take a job but um for some people given their circumstances if that's going to help support your venture it will be at you know providing an income um or providing contacts that will help support you then that would look at that in the broader sort of context of your entrepreneurial potential and how that's going to help you achieve what you want to get done in New Zealand next question is about do we need to present a complete feasibility study of the idea to EHF um so over to you I guess to figure out how best to answer our questions so as I mentioned before it's more focused on the person rather than just the venture so we're not we're not just looking at business plans as our primary or sole lens so I think that answers it I mean if you have the more you have evidence that you can concisely communicate to us that shows the opportunity of of your idea then that's fantastic in the selection process are the most attractive projects slash concepts leveraging off competitive advantages in New Zealand for example rocket lab taking advantages of the open skies above NZ so we're open to people doing all sorts of different stuff so it's not just that we're looking at oh you know here are the here you know here are like whatever three or four or five or whatever it is key industries and we will only support people doing this it's more we we're going to support great entrepreneurs um who are you know going to fit be great representatives for EHF and NZ and be great cohort members will those are the people that we want and then um when we look at how will they connect with New Zealand we'll get a sense of of how your work might actually you know what that might look like on the ground so but if you're doing something that hasn't that has very little connection with New Zealand then we might ask the question how does you know how will it actually work here is that practical for you to do it through New Zealand um Elena do you want to cover up a question about mentoring or I can cover that off yeah absolutely um so during the during the welcome retreats it's very much participant driven process so if people were requesting mentorship on training on certain elements of business or or storytelling or raising investment or whatever the case may be we would look at seeing if there is somebody within the fellow cohort who could run a workshop um we can we can also connect on a one-on-one basis as well so um I wouldn't say there's there's formal training that our team runs in those areas but what we do is is very much a crowdsourced plan for the week so we find out what are the questions that people have um what are the skills that we have within the group and um and who would be willing to run a skill that's sharing session um to be able to um impart that knowledge with others in the group thanks Elena I'm going to jump into a bunch of the next ones because they're linked to selection I'm going to bunch them so I'll just cover them off as quickly as I can so the question is can you apply as a team with one international and two New Zealanders the short answer is yes and you would apply as an international I'm at the international rates rather than as in the Kiwi rates given there's an international involved there next question how much time should every team member be available in order to contribute with EHF would part-time full-time or specific hours in a week so so I guess I I assume that you're answering around asking around contribute to their project so I mean we'll look at it in the context of the project and saying what does this need to get off the ground so if if you're trying to do a world-changing idea and all of you are only working three days three hours a week and we don't see that changing then that could be a problem but if if we see a transition towards being able to actively engage with your project and depends on the project so it's more of a case by case sort of basis but um you know in general the more you can spend energy working on a difficult problem the better but um we recognize that can take um you know you have to get resources from other places so it's context specific next question are any other benefit of applying in the early bit of category beyond the discount so short answer is no so um next question is there a limit to number of members you can apply as like to apply as one Kiwi three non non NZs how do you apply so short answer is one application per team and there you know we asked you for details of your different team members in there I'm sorry for the last part of that so yeah do you all question around payments you'd pay at the international rate if you have a mixture of Kiwis and and international you'd like to take your wife with you would there be a problem and would EHF help assist so how it works is people who are fellows get access to the global impact visa people who are um partners of visas or family of visas can get partner visas is the short one so um if you are working in a team you could um both apply if you know if that fits but otherwise applying for a partner visa next question if you want to apply as an investor are there a specific amount of money that you have to have invested for example you're interested in carbon forestry can you apply as an investor to invest in carbon forestry projects so the way we look at it is in terms of those selection criteria that we mentioned before so they're both for investors and for entrepreneurs um and um so it's not we don't just look at you know how much money you have and it's you know this person's got more money than that person so we'll we'll invest in you know we'll we'll accept them it's more based on your ability to create large impact and if you're applying as an investor if you've got access to investment capital then um that helps you to support ventures so that's a positive thing but it's it's looking within the the context of the impact that you can help enable um so if you're able to add value through um through your contacts and through your experience to help companies grow beyond just the money that you'll bring then that's certainly very important to us next question is could you explain a little bit more regarding investors application criteria so I think I've covered that off so it's the same next question you're a UK citizen and business partner as a Kiwi we've covered that off so you'd apply as an international team next question doing an agricultural product with a project with a Japanese company for global impact one of the team members applied for cohort three and was denied do we have a better chance this time so I don't know if you have a better chance it just depends on your circumstances right um so you know um we're we're still in the process of giving feedback to those who applied for cohort three who um were not included so um you should get an email from me of the next little bit of feedback so hopefully that'll be helpful be looking at you know what kind of progress you and your team have made and if the team changes then that might affect the um the ability of the or the sense of fit um with the program just because you know different people bring together different different skills and capabilities next question with a primary interest in global and global change making face-to-face and local collaboration is important how would you illustrate New Zealand's culture for collaboration is particularly different between different places of the world do the application fees include the cost of immigration fees so I'll ask the last one first so it doesn't include the cost of immigration fees from and they vary by different country for a number of countries the cost of applying for the global impact visa from immigration New Zealand was relatively small for some of that free um but but it is worth you looking at what it will cost and there's a calculator there that will tell you how much it costs for your circumstances given the country that you're applying from or you know your current country of citizenship in terms of collaboration New Zealand it's probably more similar to western countries what I'd say about New Zealand is it's a small close-knit close-knit place so people are open to um meeting up and to talking and collaborating so a lot of business gets done over a cup of coffee um and I've found people to be very approachable and willing to spend some time to um to connect compared to um different parts of the world that I've been in as well next question is there any database of Kiwi startups to initiate contact for this EHF application um so I mean we're connected with different startups we don't have a database as such but there are different networks that we collaborate with that um that can can access um and you know how point you in the right direction so it's more personally tailored rather than just yes the database but there is actually a directory of Kiwi startups it's called rabble um but I'm not sure how up-to-date it is if your past business track is good but difficult to prove um not on global scale and your present business plan on plastic recycling is promising then um so we'd need we'd need to look into it um so it's hard to answer in the abstract um so I mean we're looking at as I mentioned before um looking at your current as well as what you've done um prior to get a sense of your entrepreneurial potential next question why would it be important for a Kiwi partner to also apply for EHF fellowship um so I mean that's up to the people that are applying right but um if you had um so and it's definitely not necessary that you would have a Kiwi partner like most of our applications are either all Kiwis or international but we could conceivably have a mixture um and um so it really depends on the project that you're doing right um like if you have if you have been collaborating for a while and you have different capabilities and skills and that that you're bringing together and you haven't been to be from different countries um then that's fantastic or if that helps you do your work than that um yeah then that's fantastic in terms of your ability to get things off the ground that's definitely not a prerequisite and we'd look at it on a case-by-case basis next question could you give a few highlights as to why the acceptance rate is relatively low what are common mistakes or problems or weaknesses that applicants did um so basic so we have a um you know we said as I mentioned before our selection criteria it's not based on just you know um you know have they got a bold idea yes or no it's based on degrees and extent like you know how world-changing is it or how strong is their capability demonstrated capability um so um yeah so I guess we look at it in the context of wanting to build a community of people um with you know with a high bar in terms of entrepreneurial capability but we're we're up into looking that in different sort of ways common mistakes I'd say just um being clear on how you communicate is one piece I'd say that um just focusing on those selection criteria and having a think through what that looks like in your in your circumstances and how you can put your best foot forward I mean that's really up to you um in terms of you know for your circumstances what um you know how would you best communicate it um and how can you give I guess how can you give evidence that would um that would help um not just be you know here's what I'm saying but you know what's what's evidence that would be able to demonstrate you know show rather than just how questions around references what type of references are we after um so for those who are shortlisted we'll follow up for references so you don't have to provide references when you first apply some people submit reference letters you know letters of recommendation that's um you know you're more than welcome to do that but in terms of um references you don't have to give all the details right from the get go if we're going to ask for references we'll provide a bit more guidance but it's um probably it's people that you've been working with or people that can provide a character reference next question why would it be important for a Kiwi venture co-founder to also apply for you at Jeff Fellowship I've covered that one off already next question a previous living slash working experience in Australia could be considered similar to New Zealand exposure um it kind of depends on the context right um so I'd need to have more context probably to that to better provide a good answer I mean all else equal New Zealand Australia have some similarities but in terms of what I'd suggest is go back to our selection criteria and have a look through that answer it in that lens next up I've been following EHF for a while I'd like to apply but before that is there a person who can meet so you can clear a few of your doubts before applying currently living momentum so maybe um I mean these webinars are one opportunity for that I guess you can send an email to us at applications.ehf.org I mean that's probably a good way to cover off your questions if there are specific ones that are not covered up by what we've got to so far you mentioned about additional fees after acceptance could you tell a bit more about the price structure yeah so um broadly speaking it starts for internationals rather than Kiwis and it's um there are discounts for those who are able to get a um a scholarship probably the best thing to do is to look through um the actual website so ehf.org or rather forward slash apply and you can see it there and you can look through it's probably better for you to um to read through the table because there are different prices for um depending on with what type of application you make. Next up is there any barriers for Muslim people slash women who may participate in the EHF so um the short answer to that is that we want to have an open and inclusive community so we want to be open to people from all sorts of religions and all sorts of different backgrounds so we don't want to um negatively discriminate against people but because of their gender or because of their um religion or because of their sexual orientation um so we want to have an equal opportunities um selection process. Next question the um 36,000 mentioned New Zealand dollars is the financial requirement in the global impact visa website as per person or per application um that's a really good question I can follow up with you on that my my guess is that would be per person um yeah it would be actually because people apply for global impact visas um as as individuals once you've if you've been accepted um so that would be per person but it's um and the broad idea there is that New Zealand Government wants to have some sort of clarity that people better financially sustain themselves and that's either through the the assets that you can bring so you know stuff money in the bank or shares or whatever financial assets you have um but also you can achieve that through working as well so you don't need to have 36,000 dollars New Zealand in the bank you just need the ability to um generate that sort of amount over a year of um of your first year of being in New Zealand. So believe it or not actually I was going to say last questions we've covered but one more come in and do keep them coming we've got another three minutes to go a bit of a question marathon here at the webinar um okay next question is please clarify again with immigration I think it's per visa I I see what you mean in terms of if you have multiple visas um I I'd need to check that is the short answer if you send an email to applications at EHF.org um then we'll be able to cover that off we have another couple of minutes questions keep coming through thanks for the someone says good good pace let's keep it keep it ticking along um keep them coming faster so we can answer them faster we've got two minutes to go um last question notice that the global impact visa are allowing quota of 400 people over four years I approximately 100 per year um thought EHF had selected only 30 with the plan to select probably 60 this year okay so it's a good question so the maximum that EHF can select in a year um for people internationals who get a global impact visa is 100 so call that 50 per cohort and we have space for Kiwis on top of that as well but um we that's a maximum rather than a target so for us it's based on um based on the selection criteria how many people do we have do we have a sense have a strong fit with the program we would make great fellows so that's our core lens if that um if we have 50 international fellows that's fantastic if we have a smaller number than that that than that's okay too it's more based for us it's based on um getting a good sense of fit rather than just kind of filling a quota could you inform about the additional costs after acceptance for example principal application so the additional the additional fee is for um for those who are applying for the global impact visa um in terms of EHF's fees on acceptance so so for example if you applied in a team of two people and they each had two family members beyond that uh the two people that are applying for the global impact visa would be the ones that would pay the additional fees it's not based on family members or other team members who are not applying for a global impact visa are there certain limitations for the expansion of EHF um so i mean at this stage we've got the you know 100 global impact visas per year um that's that's our current sort of run rate maximum capacity um at this stage but um yeah our pilot period is for four years at this point with the New Zealand government um so it's um we're hoping very much to be able to extend beyond then um but it will depend on the success of the program over the next couple of years and last question um asks to email the the Q&A script so um we can't actually send the like text script but what we'll do is we'll post a video and last question if you get selected who's going to pay the airfare and accommodation for induction week so that's a good question so that is paid by the um that's paid at your end rather than EHF's end um there's no direct cost for attending welcome week in terms of accommodation and food and those kind of things but in terms of you um for the period of welcome weekend um and the new frontiers summit so that's a you know that's a week in length but if you're going to come to New Zealand for four weeks then you'd need to pay for your additional accommodation and food beyond the beyond the welcome week and obviously um you need to pay for your transport to make your way to New Zealand uh last question and we need to wrap it up can you access this webinar and Q&A where so i'm going to post um as i mentioned at the start we've been recording this call um and then tomorrow you're going to get an email from zoom saying um you know um thanks for the webinar but also we'll have a link to the video from that as well so you better have a look back through that will be on our youtube channel where you can you can learn a lot more about the program we've got a bunch of videos on there as well um wonderful yeah thank you everyone thanks for making the time um and it's been great to connect so thanks everyone thanks so much