Building a Smart and Waste-Free Destination
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How can we build a smart and waste-free touristic destination that accelerates economic, social and sustainable development? Help the local government of Portoviejo (Ecuador) in building its city as a blueprint for a sustainable and smart destination. Develop or apply your technology-driven innovations in order to foster positive change.
✅ Completed 🏁 Winner Congrats to Multiverz for winning the Challenge!
🏆 Prize EUR 3,000 per Challenge + funding programs with Atos, BMZ digilab and Make-IT Alliance + joint publication | For more see Tab “Rewards”
🌎 Scope Open to participants from all over the world
What's in it for you?
In order to give the developed solutions, the greatest possible appreciation and attention, all solutions of the final teams will be published in a joint publication of all Initiators. This way, they can be regarded as recommendations for actions or impulses for politics, economy and society and at the same time be pursued further.
In addition, the best team of each Challenge will receive prize money of €3.000 and thus a 21.000€ prize pool for the Innovate2030 Program will be distributed
Besides prize money we also have many exciting opportunities for you:
- Real chance of further collaborations with the Challenge partners with the prospect of a joint implementation after the Innovate2030-SDG11 program (see below)
- Funding programs and accelerator programs by Challenge initiators and partners such as digilab, the EU Commission & the UNFCCC or Bosch as well as other supporters such as Deutsche Telekom.
- Contact to experts from business, science, politics and development cooperation with direct cooperation with renowned organizations such as the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), governmental organizations from Africa and Latin America as well as the companies Atos and Bosch in the course of the Challenge
- Access to exclusive events and personal mentoring by ImpactWeek innovation experts.
- Individualized ekipa certificates
Portoviejo
Portoviejo and the competition organisers intend to offer promising teams the opportunity to further develop their ideas and solutions. During the elaboration phase, the finalist teams of the challenge will work together with the Portoviejo programme managers on the development of their approaches and will individually discuss their interest in possible next steps after the project. Further collaborations and support programmes are also foreseen and will be discussed at the end of the project.