Health

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Associação Expedicionários da Saúde (EDS)

Associação Expedicionários da Saúde (Brazil), an NPO that provides specialised medical and surgical care for indigenous communities geographically isolated within the Amazon through its Mobile Hospital Complex.

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Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Germany), an NPO that developed the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System, an open-source digital platform for early detection of disease outbreaks and epidemic control management.

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Ory Laboratory

Ory Laboratory (Japan), an SME that developed the robot, OriHime, designed for people with disabilities to reduce social isolation and provide them the opportunity to work and connect with society. .

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Food

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Nuru International

Nuru International (USA), an NPO that helps farmers in Africa transition from subsistence farming to farmer-owned and farmer-led cooperative agribusiness, tailoring their capacity development activities to existing efforts by government agencies and adapting to the local context.

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Regen Organics

Regen Organics (Kenya), an SME that combats issues of high farm input prices, low availability of supplies, and declining soil fertility faced by Sub-Saharan African farmers by manufacturing organic fertiliser and insect protein from diverse waste streams.

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Ÿnsect

Ynsect (France), an SME that produces insect protein and natural insect fertilisers, with Europe’s first of its kind insect factory equipped with innovative vertical farming and integrated biorefining setup.

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Energy

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Green Girls Organisation

Green Girls Organisation (Cameroon), an NPO that uses patented algorithms to identify areas where women and girls can benefit from energy access, and then deploys decentralised solar PV and biogas systems in identified areas for lighting and clean cooking.

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NeuroTech

NeuroTech (Jordan), an SME that developed Al-based algorithms with a blockchain-based transaction system to bring reliable energy access to refugee camps.

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Solarkiosk Solutions

Solarkiosk Solutions GmbH (Germany), an SME that developed the “E-HUBB” and the Connected Solar Market Center “THE PULSE” to empower local farmers and micro-businesses with renewable energy for productive use.

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Water

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HELIOZ

HELIOZ (Austria), an SME that deploys a solar-powered device that informs people when water is safe to drink – a method that reduces CO2 emissions and indoor air pollution.

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LEDARS (Local Environment Development and Agricultural Research Society)

LEDARS (Bangladesh), an NPO that integrates water resource management models to solve water scarcity issues in disaster-prone areas where water becomes unusable due to salinity and flooding.

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Seisui Industries Inc.

Seisui Industries Inc. (Japan) is an SME that developed a movable wastewater treatment plant which Seisui Industries Inc. (Japan), an SME that developed a movable wastewater treatment plant which can be customised as per needs and deployed when and where it’s needed.

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Global High Schools

The Americas

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Centro Etnoeducativo Integral Rural Nuestra Señora del Carmen

The students at Centro Etnoeducativo Integral Rural Nuestra Señora del Carmen want to solve their school’s lack of access to drinking water problem. They are proposing to implement a reverse osmosis filtration systems to generate drinking water with the power of photovoltaic sola

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Escuela Técnica No. 3 Maria Sanchez de Thompson

The students at Escuela Técnica Nro.3 Maria Sanchez de Thompson have proposed a project to help diagnose water quality in areas where there is no access to reliable drinking water. Their project involves developing a low-cost kit. A photo is taken of the collected water sample an

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Fundación Bios Terrae - ICAM Ubaté

Students at Fundación Bios Terrae - ICAM Ubaté have proposed a “Community Air Quality Program” to address the air pollution crises and to improve the health of 200,000 people living in Ubaté.

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Europe & Central Asia

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Gymnasium Kreativno pero

Students at Gymnasium Kreativno pero have proposed the “Classroom for the Sustainable Future” to address the problem of toxic materials used in school supplies, toys, and other products. The project entails quipping a classroom with solar-powered 3D printers that use corn-based P

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Northfleet Technology College

Students at Northfleet Technology College have proposed a project to engage, restore, and explore a nearby nature preserve to promote students’ connection to nature. The school already has a weather station and four wildlife cameras powered solar PV. This project intends to take

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Romain-Rolland Gymnasium

Students at Romain-Rolland Gymnasium have proposed to build a lighthouse powered by solar energy an electrolysis-based fuel cell, and run workshops and events from inside the solar lighthouse, creating a space in which students can learn and experience for themselves what it mean

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Middle East & North Africa

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Gifted Students School

Students at Gifted Students School proposed a project to develop a hydroponic greenhouse in which food can be grown all year long. The greenhouse would be controlled by cellulosic cooling cells supplied with water from a sustainable source (groundwater) and air vacuums, as well a

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JSS Private School

Students at JSS Private School have proposed the “Blue-Green Solution for Global Warming, Food, And Energy Crisis” project, which aims to cultivate algal biomass that will be used for various applications to reduce the energy, food, wastewater, and pollution. The project will use

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Obour STEM School

Students at Obour STEM School have proposed to build a sustainability laboratory that will be powered by solar panels, employ wind turbines for additional energy that can be stored for use during power outages, and utilise organic waste for both composting and natural gas convers

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Sub-Saharan Africa

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Cheshire High School

Students at Cheshire High School proposed an agro-industrial project that involves post-harvest management of fruits through juice extraction by solar-powered machines. Bio-preservatives extracted from renewable plant materials will be added to the fruit juices, as opposed to the

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Mary Mount Secondary School

Students at Mary Mount Secondary School proposed the “sustainable waste management for clean energy generation” project, which involves the following: 1. Upgrading the school’s pit latrines to flush toilets; 2. Constructing a bio digester to process human waste into biogas or slu

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UWC East Africa - Arusha Campus

Students at UWC East Africa - Arusha Campus want to reduce the prevalence of dental & skeletal fluorosis by tackling their community’s drinking water issue: about 50% of spring water sources in Arusha possess fluoride concentrations above WHO’s permissible levels. They have propo

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South Asia

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Dhaka Residential Model College

Students at Dhaka Residential Model College have proposed a project to produce healthy crop plants in a faster time by shortening the seed germination period, increasing germination rates, and enhancing seedling growth using soil dwelling microorganisms. The project aims to suppl

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Kopila Valley School

Students at Kopila Valley School have proposed the Malilo Mal project, which focuses on composting organic waste and improving the availability of nutritious foods through gardening. The students will first design an experiment to compare two composting methods: 1) vermicompostin

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Obhizatrik School

Students at Obhizatrik School want to address the school’s lack of reliable access to drinking water, electricity and nutritious food. They proposed a project to set up solar energy systems to provide electricity for the school as well as a rainwater harvesting and purifying syst

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East Asia & Pacific

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Bohol Wisdom School

Students at Bohol Wisdom School have proposed a project that directly responds to the devastation of Super Typhoon Rai in December 2021. The storm was not only detrimental to the community but also the endangered tarsiers, the world’s smallest primates. The student-led project wo

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Kamil Muslim College

Students at Kamil Muslim College proposed a project to address the effects of climate change that have affected their community and the world by providing 100% solar energy to the school, collecting rainwater from a rain harvesting system, generating biogas energy for cooking in

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Sangam Sadhu Kuppuswamy Memorial College

Students at Sangam Sadhu Kuppuswamy Memorial College have proposed a project to transform the school by converting it to solar and water-generated energy while also building out its health infrastructure. The project involves changing high power-consuming appliances to energy sa

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