Deadline:
May 31, 2025
Location(s)
Online
Overview
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.
Details
Innovate for Impact: Empowering You to Lead the Energy Transition.
We empower you to lead the energy transition by embracing key values: Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, and Teamwork.
Challenge Theme
- 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.
Go Green Challenge Timeline
Ready to make an impact? Register for the Schneider Go Green Student competition today and be a part of the movement towards a cleaner, more sustainable future for all!
- 1 April - Launch and Registration: Register by submitting your resume using the following link. After registering, you will receive a follow-up email with additional instructions on how to form your team and submit your project proposals.
- 31 May - Registrations Close: Registrations will not be accepted. Registered teams to continue working on their project proposal submission.
- 30 June - Submission Deadline: Submit a renewable energy solution that addresses the identified environmental and social impacts. Evaluation will be based on eligibility criteria and judging standards.
- 1 July - 31 July - Proposal Review: Judges to review all submissions and will select the top 10 teams.
- 1 August - 31 August - Project Development and Submission: The top 10 teams selected will proceed to develop their idea into a comprehensive business case. Each team will be paired with a Schneider Electric mentor to support during the project development phase.
- 1 Sept. - 30 Sept. - Internal Project Review: Judges will review submitted project materials according to the judging criteria and select the top 3 teams, who will be invited to the global virtual finals to pitch their solution.
- 16 October - Global Final: The top 3 teams will get the opportunity to present their solution to a virtual panel of judges, who will identify a global winner! Your Learning Journey - We are here to support you every step of the way! With our free online courses in technical skills related to the energy transition, you will get the knowledge necessary to create impactful, scalable solutions for a sustainable future.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Who Can Participate?
This is a global competition open to all students and young entrepreneurs who are passionate about making a difference through innovation in renewable energy. We invite you to join us in creating sustainable solutions for those who need it most.
- 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.
Dates
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
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 Experts
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