It's time for the seven challenge category winners in Hack for Earth to present their winning solutions to the Hack for Earth head jury group.
Out of 1371 competing teams from 121 countries, the seven winning solutions won their challenge category and now it is time for the final pitch to select the Hack for Earth Award Winner.
The head jury will select the winner according to the six jury criteria: comprehensibility, realizability, innovativeness, scalability, solving the SDGs and team and the winner will be rewarded with:
- USD 10.000
- Study visit to Stockholm in Sweden to connect with the Swedish Innovation Ecosystem
- Hack for Earth Award Cup
All the seven challenge category winners will join the customized accelerator program Build for Earth, organized by Hack for Earth Foundation, in collaboration with the Hack for Earth Partner Community.
The award ceremony will be livestreamed on Wednesday 15 December at 14:30 GMT+4.
Competing teams
The competing teams pitching to the head jury group are:
- VarunaBlue (Water)
- Luminous Teen (Partnership)
- Sustainability Insights (Environment)
- Nittiv (Health)
- DMoLL (Human Rights)
- Recy-Block (Sustianable Society)
- UN-EduPass (Education)
Head jury
The head jury Group consists of:
- Ian Edgar, Head of Learning and Partnerships at Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park (Water)
- Brighton Kaoma, Global Director at UN SDSN Youth (Partnership)
- Nidal AlBasha, Digital Innovation Leader MENA Region at Amazon Web Services (Environment)
- Suzanne Håkansson, Senior Director Government Affairs Europe and NoBa at AstraZeneca AB (Health)
- Pernilla Baralt, Executive Director at UNICEF Sweden (Human Rights)
- Svein Berg, Managing Director at Nordic Innovation (Sustainable Society)
- Zeynep Erdal, Founder and Managing Director at Wovid Diaries (Education)
Join the award ceremony and listen to the seven winning teams pitching their solutions and find out who the lucky Hack for Earth Award winner will be.