GiftedMom is a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME), founded in 2015, with a vision to provide pregnant women, in Africa, increased access to quality healthcare, education and financing opportunities.

Over the last five years, over half a million pregnant women have used GiftedMom with close to one million babies born. Currently the app has 180,000 active mothers using the solution on a monthly basis to prevent complications during pregnancy.

GLOBHE is a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME), drone service company that has developed a global drone data platform for health disaster prevention and response.

It has over 3,600 drone pilots in 48 countries connected to the platform and collects drone data on demand. The data is then uploaded to the platform, analysed automatically using Artificial Intelligence (AI), through automatic object detection, and shared with clients through a download link to a "Google map" with relevant insights marked out. Such insights include malaria breeding site locations or the number of houses located within an Ebola outbreak hotspot.

The solution has impacted 100,000 people through intervention of governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in addressing cholera and malaria epidemics in Malawi and Lake Victoria.

One Family Health (OFH) is a global non-profit organisation (NPO) that partners with governments to achieve a vision of universal access to affordable, quality healthcare.

Through the network of 110 clinics, across 13 districts in Rwanda, OFH has provided care for more than three million patient visits, saved more than 1,000 lives, and averted more than 93,000 disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) through treatment for pneumonia, malaria, and dehydration from diarrheal disease alone. The organisation has also enabled 110 nurse-franchisees to become business owners who have, subsequently, hired more than 300 support staff.

INMED Partnerships for Children is an international, non-profit organisation (NPO) that has pioneered the deployment of sustainable, climate-resilient, closed-system aquaponics, in several regions around the world, including the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.

The organisation has provided employment to 5,000 small-scale farmers, people with disabilities, women, and young individuals around the world, and has increased their incomes as a result of employment, intensive business training, financial planning, and marketing.

The Okuafo Foundation is a Ghana-based small and medium enterprise (SME) that has developed a smartphone application that utilises artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data analytics to predict and detect crop diseases and infestations and offers recommended solutions, based on scientific knowledge, in real-time. The application was designed to be used by rural farmers in Ghana, and operates without an internet connection.

The application has allowed farmers to reduce their expenses related to purchasing crop pesticides, and increase their crop productivity and harvest by up to 50 per cent, thereby increasing their profits and disposable income.

Thriving Green is a Germany-based, non-profit organisation (NPO) that employs a unique and innovative approach of using the microorganism spirulina to tackle hunger and malnutrition in vulnerable, food-insecure regions. It targets regions that are hot, dry, and poor to drive greater impact. The organisation’s solution creates positive impact by achieving higher yields compared to traditional food production methods.

Since it was founded, Thriving Green has tackled malnutrition and hunger by providing sustainable food to almost 500 individuals in vulnerable communities.

Electricians Without Borders (EWB) is an international aid non-profit organisation (NPO), which has impacted the lives of millions of people throughout its 30 years of experience, in more than 50 countries.  EWB provides high-quality solar equipment to the refugee campsites and also provides training to the refugees to repair the equipment, thereby ensuring long-term access to electricity and resolving social issues such as safety concerns.

So far, 50,000 people have been impacted by 129 ongoing projects, in 38 countries, with the aim of providing more than one million beneficiaries with improved access to electricity and water.

Kingo Energy is a social, small to medium-sized enterprise (SME), headquartered in Guatemala, that combines commercial innovation, proprietary hardware, and newly-commercial remote monitoring software to bring off-grid communities decentralised, clean energy through affordable prepaid electricity services (pay-as-you-go).

The goal is to reach one million users, by 2023, through an expansion across Central America.

SOLARKIOSK is an energy-connectivity gateway and last-mile distribution provider for renewable energy products and services for rural, off-grid areas.

To date, the solution has impacted approximately five million people, of which two million people have also benefitted from the reduction in the unit cost of energy.

AIDFI (Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc) is a non-profit organisation (NPO) that focuses on the manufacturing and installation of a hydraulic ram pump that utilises the energy contained in falling water in order to pump water to higher elevations and waterless villages and farms who are in dire need of access to clean water. The solution is unique and has been designed as hybridised water pumps that are affordable and can be deployed in needy, water-stressed communities.

The solution has demonstrated 520 installations (1,000 ram pumps) that have benefited around 260,000 people in 12 countries including Afghanistan, Nepal, Colombia and Mexico where these systems are installed.

Ceres Imaging uses proprietary spectral imaging sensors and artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytics to optimise water use in agriculture. Ceres Imaging’s data-driven technologies have enabled more efficient irrigation practices and provision of enough water to satisfy the thirst and hunger of a growing global population.

Ceres Imaging is presently serving approximately 1,000,000 acres of land, in the US and Australia.

RanMarine Technology is a drone technology company from the Netherlands that builds and sells “aquadrones” to governments and other entities to help clean and monitor their water.

RanMarine’s WasteShark drone has so far impacted the lives of 1.5 million people in Dutch cities, 350,000 people in Aarhus, Denmark, and 4.16 million people in Panama, by improving water quality and restoring water-related ecosystems.

Air Batalla is in a semi-desert area of Colombia with water and food challenges that affect thousands of people.

The proposed project is the development of a greenhouse that will use seawater to create a micro-environment for the development of crops such as beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, ajis (a type of pepper) and melons. This greenhouse will harness the power of the wind and the Sun for evaporation and condensation of seawater to create a micro-environment that allows water savings. The system will offer a large reduction in the use of drinking water and the same greenhouse will generate water through condensation, a percentage of which can be used for human consumption.

The “Netzahualcóyotl” Public High School is located in San Miguel Tzinacapan, an indigenous community in the North-eastern mountain chain of Puebla, Mexico. 

The proposed project, “Green School“, strives for the sustainability of three public high schools that are key in the region; addressing the lack of water, electricity instability, and malnutrition. The school will achieve this through: Setting-up of solar panels for electricity generation; the construction of a rainwater harvesting system that fulfils the water needs of the school, as well as generating electricity through a micro turbine installed as part of the system; food production, in a greenhouse for self-consumption; cultivation of Spirulina Algae (Spirulina Platensis) as a dietary supplement; and, to complete the cycle, the production of organic fertiliser using organic waste.

The SESI Djalma Pessoa School is part of the social service of industry (SESI) of the state of Bahia in Brazil which is committed to promoting an educational approach that integrates socio-environmental responsibility, the development of sustainability and the transformation of lives in the community.

Escola SESI Djamla Pessao is using science, humanities, languages, and mathematics to develop a scientific initiation programme in green technologies such as the capture and use of rainwater, generation of biogas through the reuse of organic waste, and the use of solar energy. This will provide an education based on positive environmental relationships with the school’s spaces, transforming them into large organic, interactive laboratories of experimenting and environmental inclusive learning.

Romain-Rolland-Gymnasium is a secondary school in Berlin, Germany. It focuses on teaching languages and excels in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. 

The school proposes developing a combined solar energy system with a novel storage system focused on hydrogen. The procedures and devices for the proposed project will be designed, tested and improved by the school students. 

The outcomes of the renewable energy tests on the school’s rooftop, as well as possible further improved prototypes, will be published. The school will also develop an interactive learning centre for renewable energy including both digital media and hands-on modelling.

School N22 is located in Sebzor’s residential area of the old city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. 

The school proposes a project called ‘Take the Power from the Sun’, which aims to install a 15kW photovoltaic system (solar cells) and develop initiatives that will include a mini-greenhouse, modernisation of its heating system, as well as a solar energy laboratory that will enable the students to analyse the system’s performance and benefits. 

It will be one of the few schools in Tashkent that will adopt renewable energy as part of the students’ experiential learning programme.

The United World College (UWC), in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was founded in 2006 as the first school in the country that allows students from the three constituent ethno-national groups to follow one curriculum together.

The school proposes to build one of the first environmentally conscious buildings, in the city of Mostar. These plans include installation of solar panels, water saving technologies, triple-glazed windows, and special insulation. Furthermore, UWC aims at creating a space that can host workshops and activities for the local community to help the school strengthen its environmental outreach activities.

Al Amal Junior high School is one of the few schools in a region in Morocco that focuses on educating the students on agriculture and how to deal with water scarcity, during summer. It also focuses on impacting its community positively through delivering a few programmes that raise awareness on the environment and sustainability, as well as gardening practices. 

The school proposes a project focused on the provision of generating water through the use of clean energy. This will be achieved through traditional water harvesting techniques that incorporate rainfall management as well as effective groundwater storage. In addition, the school plans to dig two wells and install solar panels to supply energy to pump the water from the wells to all the facilities in the school where this water will be treated further for safe drinking water.

The Philippine Global School, a private school based in the UAE, has proposed to construct and implement an aquaponics system within the school’s existing biodome project.

The project’s goal is to achieve several benefits and outcomes in the fields of environmental awareness, sustainability, and innovation by promoting sustainable food production, innovation, responsibility, and sustainable agricultural systems.

The proposed system will be complemented with renewable energy and water conservation practices to ensure sustainability is embedded within the entire project lifecycle.

Umm Al-Arab is a girls-only school based in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The school focuses on sustainability and executes a range of initiatives such as its Sustainability Force Club, Innovation Club and Organic Gardens. 

The school has proposed a project, ‘Green Numbers’, which is an environmental scientific project based on conducting green audits for the environmental resources required at the school’s premises and to achieve the ideal consumption rates by integrating waste and water solutions. The project will indicate the irrigation needs for the organic garden, when needed, by monitoring the soil moisture content and presenting figures in a dashboard (smart electricity power meter analyser). 

The second part of the project proposes addressing the energy consumption required at school using a smart application that allows students to monitor and calculate the energy consumption and savings. The project also proposes the use of a solar-powered recycling machine that will help in recycling plastic waste at the school by transforming it into 3D filament and plastic shapes for the Innovation Club.

The Hakimi Aliyu Secondary School Mokwa (HASSM), located in Mokwa region of Nigeria, was established 14 years ago with the aim of empowering students beyond the classroom and changing the attitudes of youths towards a better orientation to skill acquisition and empowerment through its vocational training department. 

The school has proposed two main projects supporting the food and energy categories. This includes the year-round production of different spices and fresh vegetables through sustainable agricultural practice, whereas most of the vegetables currently being produced are seasonal. The project further proposes the production of briquettes and designing and constructing energy efficient cooking stoves that will simultaneously be used to replace fuel wood and charcoal and provide a means of cooking for the community. The school also aims to construct a Zayed Community Training Centre (ZCTC) that will be used to prepare stakeholders for research, training and consultancy, in relation to the project’s objectives.

Koforidua Senior High Technical School, also called 'Sectech' is located in Koforidua, in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It was established in September 1967 as a model Secondary Technical School to feed the University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi.

The school has proposed a solution of installing a 200 kW solar plant to meet its daily electricity requirements, which would run the facility on a 9:1 ratio of solar power and the national grid. The installation of the solar panel technology will also help the students study more about solar voltaic system, in both Physics and Chemistry modules (e.g. semi-conductors and electrolysis).

Mpesa Foundation Academy is a co-educational and residential high school offering the Kenyan National Curriculum. The school plans to support economically disadvantaged students by developing a project to reduce school dropouts. The main cause of students not completing their studies results from high school fees, which is largely attributed to high food and electricity costs.

Mpesa Foundation seeks to install solar panels on its school rooftop to generate sustainable clean energy for pumping and treating water from school boreholes for domestic use and irrigation at the school farm. The school farm will use sustainable, sensor-controlled drip irrigation to produce organically-farmed foods that will create nutritious meals for the students. Through the project, students will learn about the application of innovative methods in agriculture, renewable clean energy, and the circular economy.

The BlinkNow Foundation is a Nepal-based organisation, founded in 2010, and has proposed to revive its neglected, partially functional aquaponics system, at its Kopila Valley School, to enable both students and teachers to engage in a diverse range of science, environmental, engineering, technology, and mathematics topics. 

It additionally aims to deliver benefits in food security, energy, and water, with the aquaponics system providing food-related training and skills to students who come from impoverished backgrounds.

The project will target students from grades 9 to 12 and will promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts, through experiential learning instead of conventional teaching and aims to inspire students to explore ideas that can benefit humanity.

Bloom Nepal School is a private school based in Mahalaxmi, Nepal, educating 270 students ranging in ages from 5 to 17.

Bloom Nepal School has proposed a project that utilises a food-energy-waste nexus framework through the installation of biogas units that convert up to one tonne of organic waste into biogas and organic manure. The biogas can then be used for cooking purposes in the school’s kitchen facilities or to generate energy using a gas engine generator, while the organic manure produced can be used in sustainable agriculture. 

The school further plans on forming a partnership with local municipalities to recycle municipal solid waste and convert it into clean energy, thereby promoting effective waste management, recycling, and clean energy generation, with the effective participation of students and the wider community.

The Delhi Public School Society is a non-profit, non-proprietary, private educational organisation, based in India, and operates a network of over 200 English language, co-educational secular schools that provide education to students from pre-nursery to grade 12.

Located in Jabalpur, The Delhi Public School has proposed to develop a ‘Sustainable Tinkering Park’ (STP) – a community centre that will allow students to study, analyse, and observe sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. The centre will feature solar energy systems, natural habitats for various bird species, an organic micro-scale vegetable farm, and water ponds.
The project aims to provide a first-hand learning opportunity to its students to promote sustainable energy and food systems and serves as an alternative model to conventional route learning.

Eutan Tarawa Ieta (ETI) Junior Secondary School, in Kiribati, is located on the northern part of the capital island, Tarawa. 

The school aims to convert part of the school grounds into a food production area, with a vegetable garden and large chicken barn, to educate students about healthy eating and help prevent diabetes – a widespread disease in Kiribati because of the high dependence on processed, high-sugared foods. Also, healthier students have been proven to have increased learning capacity. 

It also aims to install solar panels on the school’s rooftop, with rainwater tanks and solar-powered pumps to stabilise uncertain supplies of potable water that will be further treated into clean, safe drinking water. 

Kamil Muslim College is located in the Ba area on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji. The vision of the school is "Quality Inclusive Education through Sustainability, Innovation and Empowerment".

The school aims to install a 25-kW array of solar panels on the roof of the building, which will power: The school; two 5,000-litre water tanks; and a water purifier to be connected to the school’s water supply and fish farm.

The project will also provide full time spring water for the school and the fish farm ponds, and enable the school to have a Sustainability Hub that promotes sustainable development to students and the community. Funds saved from annual energy and water bills will be re-invested in the school’s sustainability and ICT literacy.

Otago Girls’ High School, founded in 1871, is the oldest state secondary school for girls in the Southern Hemisphere.

The school proposes to create a hub for innovative and sustainable education, in order to conduct research in the fields of renewable energy and other initiatives and consequently create a ‘Citizen Science Research Centre’ in collaboration with local universities and partner schools. 

The proposed hub will enable students to pilot sustainable energy projects, on the school premises, and invite partner institutions to share their inputs for further development. This will create and foster a culture of knowledge-sharing and capacity-building. The proposed projects include retrofitting historic buildings using alternative energy applications, recycling, sustainable food production, urban biodiversity, sustainable design, wind and water energy projects, and climate monitoring.