Deadline: 17 April 2020
The Liveability Challenge is welcoming proposals to make cities in the tropics sustainable and future-ready.
Started in 2018, The Liveability Challenge is a global call for viable, groundbreaking solutions to some of the greatest problems facing cities in the tropics in the 21st century.
The Liveability Challenge is presented by Temasek Foundation and organised by Eco-Business. Temasek Foundation supports a diverse range of programmes that uplift lives and communities in Singapore and beyond. Collectively, their programmes strengthen social resilience, foster international exchange, enhance regional capabilities, and advance science for a sustainable world. Temasek Foundation’s programmes, made possible through philanthropic endowments gifted by Temasek, strive towards achieving positive outcomes for individuals and communities now, and for generations to come.
The Liveability Challenge Finale will be held at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre on 8 July during Ecosperity Week.
Themes
- Urban Food Production: Urban farming represents an opportunity to improve food security in cities and minimise agriculture-related emissions—but still consumes a large amount of resources today. The Challenge is looking for technological solutions that will deliver a breakthrough in sustainable urban food production.
- Submitted solutions should:
- Produce novel food or alternative proteins
- Considerably improve nutritional quality of food over current methods of production
- Enable certain species of crops/livestock to be farmed in cities for the first time
- Reduce resource and input requirements (eg energy, water land use) for production
- Significantly increase productivity for food/nutrition production
- Result in minimal waste output and/or demonstrate circular use of waste materials
- Be scaleable
- Circular Packaging: The Challenge is looking for innovative packaging solutions to replace or reduce packaging waste made from plastic, glass, virgin/hard-to-recycle paper, or aluminium. These solutions should be useful in the retail, fashion, beauty, logistics and food & beverage industries.
- Submitted solutions should:
- Drastically reduce the resources that go into packaging
- Enable manufacturers/producers to do away with packaging altogether
- Equal the performance of conventional, unsustainable packaging and be cost competitive
- Be closed-loop: Either compostable, recyclable or bio-degradable
- Make use of renewable feedstock. The solution should consider the availability and sustainability of feedstock
- Decarbonisation: The Challenge is looking for solutions that will enable cities to capture and use carbon in a productive, sustainable way. Key considerations include how long CO2 captured can be sequestered and kept out of the air. The Challenge is also searching for game-changing, disruptive new solutions to decarbonise traditional sectors and processes in industries such as logistics, mobility and more.
- Submitted solutions should:
- Enable the large-scale capture of atmospheric CO2
- Effectively capture, store or convert CO2 using little energy and space
- Turn captured CO2 into a viable product stream
- Be carbon negative in the overall life cycle
- Take a systems approach to carbon capture and storage/utilisation
- Demonstrate demand for outputs produced
- Drastically reduce the carbon emissions produced by industries or sectors
- Be commercially viable and scaleable
All solutions submitted to The Liveability Challenge must fulfil the following criteria to be considered:
- Must have proof of concept
- At least Technology Readiness Level 6
- Must be applicable to Singapore and urban environments in the tropics
Benefits
The teams with the most ground-breaking solutions will get to pitch them at The Liveability Challenge Finale in July, for a chance to win up to S$1 million in funding and other exclusive opportunities.
Entrants who are shortlisted as finalists will:
- Participate in all training and coaching sessions that are deemed mandatory for participants by the organiser
- Join the finale of The Liveability Challenge at Marina Bay Sands on Wednesday, 8 July 2020
- Make a 7-minute pitch about their submission to the judging panel of The Liveability Challenge
- Answer judges’ questions in a 7-minute Questions & Answer session after the pitch
- Finalists based outside of Singapore must use the air tickets and accommodation provided by the organisers.
Eligibility Criteria
You are eligible if you are:
- 18 years or over.
- Not an employee of Temasek Foundation or Eco-Business
- Not a close relative or connected otherwise with individuals involved in the shortlisting, judging and organising of The Liveability Challenge
How to Apply
Complete the Registration Form, including the basic details of your project via given website.
For more information, visit https://www.theliveabilitychallenge.org/