Digital4Climate – Enhancing Climate Resilience
How can digital solutions improve the resilience of cities and local communities to climate change? How can we enhance climate resilience for example by promoting data- and community-based decision-making, risk warning systems, or risk management? Team up with the European Commission and the UNFCCC and help to build our sustainable future.
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🏆 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
Who can participate?
Students, Researchers, Young professionals, Digital startups, SMEs, innovation labs and ventures that develop and apply innovative digital technology solutions to support enhanced sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions across all sectors of the economy and society.
Potential Impact
Cities and local communities play are central to improved climate change adaption and mitigation. Innovative digital solutions can be key enablers for raising awareness about the impact of climate change, enhancing community-based actions to enhance the resilience of cities and supporting more systematic changes that lead to increased disaster preparedness and increased resilience towards the negative impact of climate change.
Knowledge Base
You can read into the topic on the UNFCCC website.
Evaluation Criteria
1. political relevance (strategic relevance)
- Does digital innovation contribute to solving a developmentally important core problem for target groups, differentiated by vulnerable groups or disadvantaged groups (gender, minorities), or to a development bottleneck of a partner country?
- Does innovation make a clearly defined contribution to the SDGs (which ones?)
2. scalability (probability of success)
Impact
- Are the impact goals defined and is it explained how they will be achieved (e.g., Theory of Change)?
- Has digital innovation already been successfully piloted and implemented? Is there evidence that the intended impact was achieved?
- How high is the degree of goal achievement (effectiveness, quality of goal achievement) compared to other options? (Ratio result/target)
- What are the economic, social, and environmental risks associated with innovation (especially with regard to the Safeguards+Gender areas of the environment, climate, human rights, conflict, and gender)?
Scaling intention
- Are initial scaling objectives and further scaling options coherently presented?
- Is digital innovation sufficiently independent of context-specific determinants and local system requirements?
Team
- Is digital innovation backed by a diverse team with a clear vision characterized by leadership and entrepreneurial thinking?
- Does the team have clear ambitions to scale their digital innovation?
- Target group centricity
- Is there broad knowledge of the target audience and stakeholder needs?
- Have elements of digital innovation been tested and developed together with the target group?
- Are vulnerable target groups (esp. women) or is the partner country able and willing to use the innovation in the long term (long-term demand)?
Sustainability
- What is the benefit or added value of digital innovation for target groups or the partner country?
- Is there a comprehensible business model that ensures sustainable financing of the digital solution?