Tag: Sustainia Award

• Apply: €100,000 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Award

  

  The 2019 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards Program, in partnership with The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is now open. The awards will celebrate inspirational young people from all over the world with existing initiatives, products or services that are tackling some of the world’s social and environmental issues. This year’s entries will focus…

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  May 8, 2019

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• Apply: €50,000 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Award

  

  The Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards recognizes and supports brilliant young innovators tackling the planet’s biggest environmental and social challenges, and helping them to achieve scale for impact. From simple solutions with far-reaching impacts for child nutrition, to ground breaking technologies to cut greenhouse emissions, these changemakers are challenging business as usual and leading the way to…

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  May 30, 2018

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• $500 Up For Grabs: Apply for the Unilever-WeCyclers Product Design Competition

  

  In line with Unilever’s commitment to continually conserve the environment, create more job opportunities and promote entrepreneurship among the youths; the company has partnered with Wecyclers, to empower youths and make sustainable living a commonplace in Nigeria.We want to challenge the designers, innovators, and creators of tomorrow. That’s why we are promoting a product design…

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  February 13, 2017

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• WeCyclers Wins Case Foundation Pitch For Lagos Competition

  

  The AWP Network salutes and congratulates Wecyclers on winning the 2015 Pitch For Lagos competition, an event chaired by Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and founder of the Case Foundation. Wecyclers is a response to local waste issues in Lagos, where only 40 percent of the city’s garbage is collected. The World Bank also estimates that only…

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  July 30, 2015

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• Apply: 2015 Sustainia100 – Sustainable Solutions

  What is Sustainia100? SUSTAINIA100 is an annual guide to 100 innovative sustainable solutions from around the world. The guide identifies readily available projects, initiatives and technologies at the forefront of sustainable innovation. Last year, Sustainia’s research team and advisory board screened over 1,000 solutions, reviewed over 500, from which the final 100 solutions were selected.…

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  December 21, 2014

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• Lagos-based Company WeCyclers Wins 2014 Sustainia Award

  

  Chaired by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nigerian initiative – Wecyclers recently won the 2014 Sustainia Award. The solution enables low-income communities to make money from waste piling up in their streets. By deploying a fleet of cargo bicycles to collect and recycle un-managed waste, Wecyclers lets families exchange garbage for consumer goods via an SMS-based point system. Wecyclers…

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  November 2, 2014

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