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Thank you for your applications for the SDG Innovation Award 2024!

The application phase is over.

The nominees have been announced.

SDG Innovation nominees
Award 2024

The German Senate of Economy and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) announce the nominees for the SDG Innovation Award 2024. This year, the SDG Innovation Award has received over 270 applications from 38 countries reached a new record.

The nominees for the SDG Innovation Awards were selected by an independent expert jury, which is made up of top-class experts from science, business and international organizations. The jury chairman is Ashok Sridharan, former mayor of the city of Bonn and former president of the international city network ICLEI.

The solemn award ceremony takes place on December 7, 2024 in Munich.

The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

Category Companies:
Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG
Aseel Technology Corporation
Brands Fashion GmbH
Ecological Balance
Elucid GmbH
Maschinenring Foundation gGmbH
Mosca GmbH
PT Mukti Mandiri Lestari
VAUDE Sport GmbH & Co. KG
WILO SE

Category Youth & Education:
Akshar Foundation
School in Transition gGmbH
SkillUp eV
Foundation Alliance for Development and Climate
Volvo Group

Category Cities/Municipalities/Districts:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Incheon, South Korea
Kiel, Germany
Lüdenscheid, Germany
Mesa, USA
Samsø, Denmark

Nomination for the SDG Innovation Award 2024

WHAT ARE THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)?

The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) intend to help ensure that ten billion people can live together peacefully, without hunger, in security and prosperity in the future. This includes the provision of climate and environmental protection, the fight against poverty and hunger in the world, and the promotion of health, justice, and education.

RAISING AWARENESS,
VISIBILITY AND SIGNIFICANCE,
FOR THE SDGs AND EVERYONE
WHO's VESTED IN
IMPLEMENTING THEM.

WHY IS THE SDG INNOVATION AWARD AWARDED?

The SDG Innovation Award honors pioneers who exemplary part contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and makes their exemplary, effective projects and activities known to a wider audience. In addition to the recognition of the award winners, the Anchoring the goals of the SDGs throughout society in the foreground. Innovative pioneers and committed pioneersthat make an exemplary contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be honored with the SDG Innovation Award.

The focus is increasingly on projects and initiatives directed at a international impact and charisma develop and a relevant and innovative contribution to a sustainable development. The focus here is on the implementation sustainable supply chains as well as on the promoting clean energy and the technology transfer. We are looking for actors who understand the Agenda 2030 holistically. The aim here is to promote several sustainability goals simultaneously, such as environmental and climate protection.

The Senate of Economy Germany and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are collaborating with the SDG Innovation Award to achieve the visibility and popularity of the global Sustainable Development Goals.

Companies, educational institutions, organizations, initiatives, institutions, projects, cities, districts, and municipalities can be awarded.

IN WHICH CATEGORIES CAN AN APPLICATION BE SUBMITTED?

The SDG Innovation Award 2024 is presented in the following Categories :

Review: Presentation of the SDG Award and UNIDO Innovation Award 2023

How much progress has been made on the goals set in 2015? We are halfway to 2030, and there is a pressing need to enhance security and ensure basic needs, climate, and environmental protection equally. Through the SDG Innovation Award initiative, we seek to spotlight innovative ideas and practical solutions as incentives for effectively addressing and implementing these challenges together.

The SDG Innovation Award is free of: