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Digital4Climate – The Move towards a Circular Economy

The needed transition to a full circular economy requires a complete overhaul of existing processes and structures from businesses to citizens. How can digital solutions accelerate this transition towards circularity? Team up with the European Commission and the UNFCCC and help to build our sustainable future.

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  • ✅ Completed
  • 🏁 Winner

    Congrats to BANANA PACKAGING TEAM for winning the Challenge and the overall innovation program!

  • 🏆 Prize

    EUR 3,000 per Challenge + funding programs with the European Commission and UNFCCC + joint publication | For more see Tab “Rewards”

  • 🌎 Scope

    Open to participants from all over the world

Submission Template

For the participation within the Innovate 2030 program, a common submission template is available. This template will help you to structure your ideas and approaches and to find answers to all relevant questions.

The Submission Template is mandatory to submit.

In addition to this submission template, you will find specific requirements and guiding questions for your use case in the "Guiding Questions" section down below.

You can also complement your submission with prototypes, pitch decks, image and video materials, higher-level concepts, or specific use case-related instruments – simply submit these documents along with the submission template via our platform.

 

Guiding Questions

This Challenge is calling for the most innovative digital solutions or use cases of existing digital solutions that enable effective actions by companies to develop new business models or citizen to change consumption behaviours towards a sustainable and circular economy at the city level.

The following guiding questions are for your inspiration, and it is not mandatory to answer all of them.

  • How can we create an increasing awareness of companies or citizens about needed and useful transformative activities that result in the transition to a circular economy?
  • How can we get companies or citizens to build up their capacity for transformative activities that result in the transition to a circular economy?
  • How can we give companies or citizens the right incentives for transformative activities that result in the transition to a circular economy?
  • How can we empower Companies or Citizens to conduct transformative activities that result in the transition to a circular economy?

Knowledge Base

Here you can find an informative article regarding the development of green cities:
https://www.weforum.org/reports/biodivercities-by-2030-transforming-cities-relationship-with-nature