View our winners FINALISTS - 2027 This year’s finalists are pioneering inclusive, tech-enabled, and locally adapted solutions that tackle urgent global challenges—delivering clean energy, safe water, nutritious food, quality healthcare, and climate resilience to millions worldwide.
Elythea Elythea, an SME from the United States of America, uses AI to predict pregnancy complications from routine first-trimester data months in advance without additional tests or equipment.

Health

 Read More GOAL 3 GOAL 3, an SME from the Netherlands, combines durable bedside vital-sign monitors with digital patient records to detect patient deterioration earlier in children and newborns in low-resource hospitals.

Health

 Read More Marsi Bionics Marsi Bionics, an SME from Spain, develops paediatric exoskeletons with smart robotic joints that mimic muscle movement to provide personalised walking assistance and physiotherapy.

Health

 Read More Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies, an SME from the United States of America, develops microbial mixes containing beneficial fungi and soil bacteria that are applied to crops, enhancing their resilience to drought, heat, salinity and nutrient stress.

Food

 Read More ALSEC Alimentos Secos ALSEC, an SME from Colombia, uses biotechnology and nanotechnology in a solar-powered plant to convert polluting liquid whey from artisan cheese producers into high-value nutritional ingredients and purified water.

Food

 Read More TOWING TOWING, an SME from Japan, produces a biochar soil treatment enhanced with cultivated microorganisms to rapidly restore soil health and improve crop productivity.

Food

 Read More Energy Assured Energy Assured, an SME from Nigeria, provides pay-as-you-go solar home systems, clean cookstoves and shared mobile solar irrigation pumps with flexible farmer financing.

Energy

 Read More Flint Flint, an SME from Singapore, develops rechargeable cellulose-based batteries that eliminate lithium, cobalt, nickel and flammable electrolytes and are compostable within six weeks.

Energy

 Read More Sustain Plus Sustain Plus, an NPO from India, combines proven clean energy technologies with blended finance, community ownership and local delivery networks to scale rural energy access.

Energy

 Read More Fundación Aguatuya Fundación Aguatuya, an NPO from Bolivia, uses decentralised treatment plants to convert wastewater and sludge into irrigation water, natural biofungicides and compost.

Water

 Read More Rupantar Rupantar, an NPO from Bangladesh, delivers safe water through women-owned enterprises using reverse osmosis and sand filtration to restore surface water sources and rainwater harvesting.

Water

 Read More Solinas Solinas, an SME from India, develops AI-equipped robotic crawlers to detect faults inside water and sewer pipes and robotic systems to clean sanitation infrastructure without human entry.

Water

 Read More Aquafondo Aquafondo, an NPO from Peru, restores ancestral water-management systems including amunas, qochas and high-Andean wetlands to recharge aquifers and regulate water flows.

Climate Action

 Read More Coral Gardeners Coral Gardeners, an NPO from French Polynesia, cultivates heat-resilient corals in underwater nurseries and uses AI, sensors and 3D mapping to monitor reef restoration.

Climate Action

 Read More String Bio String Bio, an SME from India, develops a methane-derived microbial biostimulant that improves rice productivity while reducing methane emissions.

Climate Action

 Read More The Americas École Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School École Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School, a public school in Canada with 950 students, aims to improve bee colony survival through the solar-powered BeeCube Hive Monitoring and Ventilation System, combining sensors, renewable energy and hands-on robotics education.

Global High Schools

 Read More The Americas Instituto Etnoeducativo Distrital Tayrona de Bunkwímake Instituto Etnoeducativo Distrital Tayrona de Bunkwímake, a public school in Colombia with 703 students, aims to combine Indigenous knowledge, Arduino electronics and AI to study plant biofrequencies, animal vocalisations and marine species behaviour through a solar-powered learning and research space.

Global High Schools

 Read More The Americas Instituto Técnico Nuestra Señora de Fátima Instituto Técnico Nuestra Señora de Fátima, a public technical school in Argentina with 2,800 students, aims to develop a low-cost wildfire early-warning system using environmental sensors, LoRa communications, AI smoke detection, interactive heat mapping and a mobile app.

Global High Schools

 Read More Sub-Saharan Africa Asifiwa Institute Asifiwa Institute, a public technical school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 687 students, aims to convert discarded PET bottles into 3D-printing filament for custom prosthetic limbs through a student-operated, solar-powered fabrication laboratory.

Global High Schools

 Read More Sub-Saharan Africa Oloosirikon Secondary School Oloosirikon Secondary School, a public school in Kenya with 456 students, aims to use a student-developed AI system to diagnose, refurbish and resell discarded electronics while recovering useful solar components and expanding affordable digital access.

Global High Schools

 Read More Sub-Saharan Africa Swami Vivekanada State Secondary School Swami Vivekanada State Secondary School, a public school in Mauritius with 460 students, aims to restore erosion-prone coastlines by propagating native dune-stabilising plants in climate-controlled greenhouses for transplantation onto vulnerable beaches.

Global High Schools

 Read More Middle East and North Africa Applied Technology Schools, Ajman Applied Technology Schools, Ajman, a public technical secondary school in the United Arab Emirates with 1,300 students, aims to develop a solar-powered, IoT-monitored sustainability hub inspired by traditional UAE architecture, incorporating majlis design, wind towers and falaj systems alongside atmospheric water generation, HVAC condensate recovery, closed-loop hydroponics, passive cooling and native plant propagation.

Global High Schools

 Read More Middle East and North Africa Inkhil Secondary School Inkhil Secondary School, a public school in Syria with 930 students, aims to create a closed-loop system combining construction rubble recycling, microalgae- and solar evaporation-based desalination, and chemically treated coal for cleaner energy and reusable carbon filters.

Global High Schools

 Read More Middle East and North Africa Rachaya High School Rachaya High School, a public school in Lebanon with 350 students, aims to develop an off-grid electrostatic fog-harvesting system powered by renewable energy, with real-time IoT monitoring and built-in filtration to produce clean water.

Global High Schools

 Read More Europe And Central Asia Agrupamento de Escolas Gândara Mar Agrupamento de Escolas Gândara Mar, a public school in Portugal with 717 students, aims to create a science innovation hub combining student-built solar desalination units, renewable energy research and plant-resilience experiments.

Global High Schools

 Read More Europe And Central Asia General Education School No.101, Astana General Education School No.101, Astana, a public school in Kazakhstan with 3,800 students, aims to develop an AI-supported indoor air quality system using LEGO Spike Prime and Raspberry Pi sensors to monitor classroom conditions and predict periods of poor air quality.

Global High Schools

 Read More Europe And Central Asia Keban Multi-Program Anatolian High School Keban Multi-Program Anatolian High School, a public school in Türkiye with 160 students, aims to use smart sensors and automated controls to capture clean water normally wasted while taps heat up, recirculating it back to heaters or storing it for reuse.

Global High Schools

 Read More South Asia A/Kagama Tract 09 Secondary School A/Kagama Tract 09 Secondary School, a public school in Sri Lanka with 500 students, aims to create an integrated solar-powered water, energy and food hub combining rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge, RO+UV filtration, sensor-based taps and vertical microgreens farming.

Global High Schools

 Read More South Asia Motithang Higher Secondary School, Thimphu Motithang Higher Secondary School, Thimphu, a public school in Bhutan with 1,700 students, aims to introduce smart irrigation using sensors, drip systems, a mobile app and AI-enabled monitoring to reduce water use, improve farming and support reforestation.

Global High Schools

 Read More South Asia Shree Saraswati Secondary School Shree Saraswati Secondary School, a public school in Nepal with 780 students, aims to create a closed-loop water and food system using duckweed to treat greywater and produce low-cost poultry feed, while reusing treated water for irrigation.

Global High Schools

 Read More East Asia And Pacific Garuda Baturotok Secondary School Garuda Baturotok Secondary School, a private school in Indonesia with 76 students, aims to create a circular coffee agroforestry system combining intercropping, solar-powered coffee drying and conversion of coffee by-products into organic fertiliser and other useful products.

Global High Schools

 Read More East Asia And Pacific Votualevu College Votualevu College, a public school in Fiji with 731 students, aims to create an integrated living laboratory combining rainwater and greywater harvesting, natural filtration, solar-powered aquaponics, vertical gardens, irrigation using recycled plastic materials and natural pest management.

Global High Schools

 Read More East Asia And Pacific YK Pao School YK Pao School, a private school in China with 600 students, aims to develop a passive water-energy system combining solar panels with Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to harvest atmospheric moisture, using solar-panel waste heat to produce freshwater while improving solar efficiency.

Global High Schools

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Elythea

Health

 Elythea, an SME from the United States of America, uses AI to predict pregnancy complications from routine first-trimester data months in advance without additional tests or equipment.
GOAL 3

Health

 GOAL 3, an SME from the Netherlands, combines durable bedside vital-sign monitors with digital patient records to detect patient deterioration earlier in children and newborns in low-resource hospitals.
Marsi Bionics

Health

 Marsi Bionics, an SME from Spain, develops paediatric exoskeletons with smart robotic joints that mimic muscle movement to provide personalised walking assistance and physiotherapy.
Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies

Food

 Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies, an SME from the United States of America, develops microbial mixes containing beneficial fungi and soil bacteria that are applied to crops, enhancing their resilience to drought, heat, salinity and nutrient stress.
ALSEC Alimentos Secos

Food

 ALSEC, an SME from Colombia, uses biotechnology and nanotechnology in a solar-powered plant to convert polluting liquid whey from artisan cheese producers into high-value nutritional ingredients and purified water.
TOWING

Food

 TOWING, an SME from Japan, produces a biochar soil treatment enhanced with cultivated microorganisms to rapidly restore soil health and improve crop productivity.
Energy Assured

Energy

 Energy Assured, an SME from Nigeria, provides pay-as-you-go solar home systems, clean cookstoves and shared mobile solar irrigation pumps with flexible farmer financing.
Flint

Energy

 Flint, an SME from Singapore, develops rechargeable cellulose-based batteries that eliminate lithium, cobalt, nickel and flammable electrolytes and are compostable within six weeks.
Sustain Plus

Energy

 Sustain Plus, an NPO from India, combines proven clean energy technologies with blended finance, community ownership and local delivery networks to scale rural energy access.
Fundación Aguatuya

Water

 Fundación Aguatuya, an NPO from Bolivia, uses decentralised treatment plants to convert wastewater and sludge into irrigation water, natural biofungicides and compost.
Rupantar

Water

 Rupantar, an NPO from Bangladesh, delivers safe water through women-owned enterprises using reverse osmosis and sand filtration to restore surface water sources and rainwater harvesting.
Solinas

Water

 Solinas, an SME from India, develops AI-equipped robotic crawlers to detect faults inside water and sewer pipes and robotic systems to clean sanitation infrastructure without human entry.
Aquafondo

Climate Action

 Aquafondo, an NPO from Peru, restores ancestral water-management systems including amunas, qochas and high-Andean wetlands to recharge aquifers and regulate water flows.
Coral Gardeners

Climate Action

 Coral Gardeners, an NPO from French Polynesia, cultivates heat-resilient corals in underwater nurseries and uses AI, sensors and 3D mapping to monitor reef restoration.
String Bio

Climate Action

 String Bio, an SME from India, develops a methane-derived microbial biostimulant that improves rice productivity while reducing methane emissions.
École Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School

Global High Schools

 | The Americas École Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School, a public school in Canada with 950 students, aims to improve bee colony survival through the solar-powered BeeCube Hive Monitoring and Ventilation System, combining sensors, renewable energy and hands-on robotics education.
Instituto Etnoeducativo Distrital Tayrona de Bunkwímake

Global High Schools

 | The Americas Instituto Etnoeducativo Distrital Tayrona de Bunkwímake, a public school in Colombia with 703 students, aims to combine Indigenous knowledge, Arduino electronics and AI to study plant biofrequencies, animal vocalisations and marine species behaviour through a solar-powered learning and research space.
Instituto Técnico Nuestra Señora de Fátima

Global High Schools

 | The Americas Instituto Técnico Nuestra Señora de Fátima, a public technical school in Argentina with 2,800 students, aims to develop a low-cost wildfire early-warning system using environmental sensors, LoRa communications, AI smoke detection, interactive heat mapping and a mobile app.
Asifiwa Institute

Global High Schools

 | Sub-Saharan Africa Asifiwa Institute, a public technical school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 687 students, aims to convert discarded PET bottles into 3D-printing filament for custom prosthetic limbs through a student-operated, solar-powered fabrication laboratory.
Oloosirikon Secondary School

Global High Schools

 | Sub-Saharan Africa Oloosirikon Secondary School, a public school in Kenya with 456 students, aims to use a student-developed AI system to diagnose, refurbish and resell discarded electronics while recovering useful solar components and expanding affordable digital access.
Swami Vivekanada State Secondary School

Global High Schools

 | Sub-Saharan Africa Swami Vivekanada State Secondary School, a public school in Mauritius with 460 students, aims to restore erosion-prone coastlines by propagating native dune-stabilising plants in climate-controlled greenhouses for transplantation onto vulnerable beaches.
Applied Technology Schools, Ajman

Global High Schools

 | Middle East and North Africa Applied Technology Schools, Ajman, a public technical secondary school in the United Arab Emirates with 1,300 students, aims to develop a solar-powered, IoT-monitored sustainability hub inspired by traditional UAE architecture, incorporating majlis design, wind towers and falaj systems alongside atmospheric water generation, HVAC condensate recovery, closed-loop hydroponics, passive cooling and native plant propagation.
Inkhil Secondary School

Global High Schools

 | Middle East and North Africa Inkhil Secondary School, a public school in Syria with 930 students, aims to create a closed-loop system combining construction rubble recycling, microalgae- and solar evaporation-based desalination, and chemically treated coal for cleaner energy and reusable carbon filters.
Rachaya High School

Global High Schools

 | Middle East and North Africa Rachaya High School, a public school in Lebanon with 350 students, aims to develop an off-grid electrostatic fog-harvesting system powered by renewable energy, with real-time IoT monitoring and built-in filtration to produce clean water.
Agrupamento de Escolas Gândara Mar

Global High Schools

 | Europe And Central Asia Agrupamento de Escolas Gândara Mar, a public school in Portugal with 717 students, aims to create a science innovation hub combining student-built solar desalination units, renewable energy research and plant-resilience experiments.
General Education School No.101, Astana

Global High Schools

 | Europe And Central Asia General Education School No.101, Astana, a public school in Kazakhstan with 3,800 students, aims to develop an AI-supported indoor air quality system using LEGO Spike Prime and Raspberry Pi sensors to monitor classroom conditions and predict periods of poor air quality.
Keban Multi-Program Anatolian High School

Global High Schools

 | Europe And Central Asia Keban Multi-Program Anatolian High School, a public school in Türkiye with 160 students, aims to use smart sensors and automated controls to capture clean water normally wasted while taps heat up, recirculating it back to heaters or storing it for reuse.
A/Kagama Tract 09 Secondary School

Global High Schools

 | South Asia A/Kagama Tract 09 Secondary School, a public school in Sri Lanka with 500 students, aims to create an integrated solar-powered water, energy and food hub combining rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge, RO+UV filtration, sensor-based taps and vertical microgreens farming.
Motithang Higher Secondary School, Thimphu

Global High Schools

 | South Asia Motithang Higher Secondary School, Thimphu, a public school in Bhutan with 1,700 students, aims to introduce smart irrigation using sensors, drip systems, a mobile app and AI-enabled monitoring to reduce water use, improve farming and support reforestation.
Shree Saraswati Secondary School

Global High Schools

 | South Asia Shree Saraswati Secondary School, a public school in Nepal with 780 students, aims to create a closed-loop water and food system using duckweed to treat greywater and produce low-cost poultry feed, while reusing treated water for irrigation.
Garuda Baturotok Secondary School

Global High Schools

 | East Asia And Pacific Garuda Baturotok Secondary School, a private school in Indonesia with 76 students, aims to create a circular coffee agroforestry system combining intercropping, solar-powered coffee drying and conversion of coffee by-products into organic fertiliser and other useful products.
Votualevu College

Global High Schools

 | East Asia And Pacific Votualevu College, a public school in Fiji with 731 students, aims to create an integrated living laboratory combining rainwater and greywater harvesting, natural filtration, solar-powered aquaponics, vertical gardens, irrigation using recycled plastic materials and natural pest management.
YK Pao School

Global High Schools

 | East Asia And Pacific YK Pao School, a private school in China with 600 students, aims to develop a passive water-energy system combining solar panels with Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to harvest atmospheric moisture, using solar-panel waste heat to produce freshwater while improving solar efficiency.
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