Ecothon, an eco-entrepreneurs’ marathon for sustainable development, is a business model competition for promising eco-entrepreneurs who have an innovative business idea related to SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production (‘SCP’). It seeks to foster an eco-entrepreneurship and to contribute to achieving the SDGs by developing sustainable business models that minimize environmental impact.

Piloted as the cooperation project under the ROK-ASEAN startup partnership, the program has been virtually held in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and the Philippines with more than 100 startup teams since 2019.