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Schneider Go Green Challenge
An exciting global challenge open to teams of students and young entrepreneurs from all backgrounds! Your mission? To develop an innovative business model that delivers clean, affordable, and renewable energy solutions tailored to the needs of local communities!
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Theme
This year's challenge is focused on two themes:
Explore solutions for solar-powered pre/post-harvesting, storage, and processing
Innovate for retail and services, refrigeration, manufacturing, and production
Your Project Proposals should be:
- Solar Power Agriculture
Explore solutions for solar-powered pre/post-harvesting, storage, and processing
- Solar Powered Microbusinesses
Innovate for retail and services, refrigeration, manufacturing, and production
Your Project Proposals should be:
- Affordable - Making clean energy accessible to all, including low-income communities, by prioritizing cost-effective solutions.
- Sustainable - Built to last—recyclable, repairable, and well-documented to support long-term use, maintenance, and continuous learning.
- Innovative - Introducing new and creative solutions to energy challenges.
- Local - Designed with locally available components, ensuring that the system can be installed, operated, and maintained by professionals trained within the country.
Challenge Prizes!
- The top three winning teams will share a total prize pool of €10,000. (1st Place: €6,000, 2nd Place: €2,500, 3rd Place: €1,500).
- Product basket sponsored by Schneider Electric's Access to Energy Business.
- Boost your personal brand and grow your professional network.
- Mentoring sessions from Schneider Electric's Access to Energy Experts.
Who Can Participate?
- Current enrolled students aged 18 to 30.
- Participants must have proficiency in English as the official language for the competition.
- Must participate in teams of up to 4 members. We encourage each team to be gender balanced.
- All team members must study in the same country, but they may attend different educational institutions, and be enrolled in different courses, and various academic years.
Challenge Timeline
- April 1: Launch
Registrations for the competition open
- June 13: Identify
Form your teams and brainstorm your idea
- June 30: Submit
Teams will work on their idea and submit their project proposals for evaluation
- August 31: Development
Top 10 teams are selected and invited to submit their business case for evaluation
- September 30: Review
Business cases are reviewed and the top 3 teams selected to progress to global finals
- October 16: Global Final
Top 3 teams will pitch their project at the digital competition.
Why Apply?
Hear from our previous Go Green participants!