City Government of Baguio
CPDSO
Incubator Baguio
SIGLAT Youth Innovation Hub
UNDP PhilippinesAbout PinaSIKLab Baguio
PinaSIKLab Baguio 2026 is the Baguio leg of PinaSIKLab: Pilipinas Social Innovation for Kabataan Labs 2026, a UNDP Philippines initiative supporting young innovators in developing solutions and advancing their entrepreneurship journey.
The Baguio leg provides young people with an opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams, understand local challenges, develop ideas, build prototypes, receive mentorship, and present their solutions.
The program focuses on the use of AI and digital technologies to develop solutions that can address community, climate, business, and other local challenges.
Open to young innovators in Baguio City.
PinaSIKLab Baguio is open to young people aged 18–30 who are residents, students, or workers in Baguio City.
Residents, students, or workers in:
If you’re 18–30 and study, work, or live in Baguio City, there’s a place for you, whatever your background.
Apply with a team you’ve already formed, or on your own. If you apply solo, you can find teammates in the Team Finder.
Teams are encouraged to bring together people with different skills, including:
A two-day innovation sprint.
PinaSIKLab Baguio is a two-day innovation sprint. Participants will work through the process of:
Understand
Explore a real problem and understand the people and communities affected by it.
Develop
Work with your team to identify opportunities and develop a solution.
Build
Turn your idea into a prototype that can be demonstrated and tested.
Refine
Receive guidance from mentors and improve your solution based on feedback.
Pitch
Present your solution to a panel of judges and partners.
The program is designed to strengthen participants’ capabilities in design thinking, technical development, business and social viability, and pitching.
Real problems from Baguio City.
Participants will work on problem statements connected to the Baguio City Research and Innovation Agenda 2026 and relevant Sustainable Development Goals.
The challenges are designed around real opportunities and problems facing Baguio City.
The challenge briefs are being finalized. Check back soon to see the problems your team can take on.
Prototypes, not just pitches.
Your solution can take different forms depending on the problem you are addressing. Examples include:
You don’t need to be a programmer to participate.
What matters is bringing together the right combination of technical, design, business, research, community, and domain expertise to develop a solution as a team.
Strong solutions show clear potential for:
The goal is not simply to present an idea.
Teams will be expected to develop a working prototype or demonstrable solution addressing their selected challenge.
More than a weekend of building.
Mentorship
Work with mentors from government, academe, industry, startups, and the innovation ecosystem.
Hands-on Experience
Go through an actual innovation process from problem identification to prototype development and pitching.
Network
Connect with fellow young innovators, mentors, government agencies, universities, startups, and industry partners.
Platform
Present your solution to judges and partners working in the local innovation ecosystem.
Two days to build, pitch, and compete. The best teams take home prizes, and the Top 5 move on to the National Challenge.
From Baguio to the National Stage
The Baguio leg is part of the wider PinaSIKLab 2026 national program.
The national PinaSIKLab challenge brings together the five winning teams from each local SIKLab for a three-day bootcamp. National winners may receive grants and mentorship opportunities, as well as the opportunity to participate in a regional activity in Japan.
PinaSIKLab Baguio 2026
Build with a multidisciplinary team of up to five. Bring the team you’ve already formed, or apply on your own and we’ll help you find teammates whose skills fit yours.
Registration deadline: October 23, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before you apply to PinaSIKLab Baguio.
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Baguio City Research and Innovation Alliance. Operationalized under Ordinance No. 63, s.2023 by the CPDSO, City Government of Baguio.