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A youth innovation challenge.
The Annual Sustainability
Tackle three real-world challenges...
In partnership with Temasek Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, and GWS Living Art, with Vidacity as a Knowledge Partner and City Sprouts as an Impact Partner, this inaugural run gave participants access to mentors, partner feedback, and a pathway to pilot their funded solutions at Earthopia Fest this May while tackling three problem challenges...
Sustainable, Quality Access to Nutrition
Sustainable, Quality Access to Nutrition
Challenge Sponsor — United Nations Development Programme
How might youth-led innovations leverage novel agrifood technologies to reduce food loss and improve food security in Singapore's smallholder value chains, while ensuring these solutions are accessible, scalable, and inclusive for low- and middle-income communities across the region?
Active & Quality Aging
Challenge Sponsor — Temasek Foundation
Active & Quality Aging
How might we enable healthy, socially connected aging for seniors in Singapore through accessible, nature-based activities and programs, by mobilizing youth teams to design low-cost, proximate interventions that improve physical activity, mental wellbeing, and intergenerational bonds, and that can be tested, measured, and scaled across neighborhoods?
Pretty Ugly
developed a one-stop digital marketplace (app) that connects urban farmers in Singapore directly with consumers, addressing the “Beauty Tax” in produce.
Farmers to Canteen
bridges the gap between local farmers with excess produce and communities experiencing food insecurity, targeting school canteens and corporate cafeterias.
Challenge Winners
Nature-based Solutions
Challenge Sponsor — GWS Living Art
Nature-based Solutions
How might we deploy nature-based solutions across streetscapes, open spaces, waterways, and community systems to lower heat stress, slow and reuse stormwater, and boost urban biodiversity, while staying affordable, modular, and easy to maintain in Singapore’s climate?
Uses computer vision and AI to transform anywhere into an Active Ageing Playground that turns exercise into play.
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The platform requires no special equipment or wearables making it accessible to all seniors.
Challenge Winner – Rehabify
A Hydro-Kinetic Bus Stop that combats Singapore’s Urban Heat Island effect,using kinetic pavement mats & solar panels harvested energy from commuter steps.
Challenge Winner – Hydro-logic
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