Deadline: 7-Jul-23
CEZ Group is teaming up with One Young World to launch the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 7 to introduce innovations for addressing energy needs, contributing to greater quality of life.
How can they ensure access to energy for all?
- Despite progress, there are still more than 700 million people globally without access to electricity and a further 2.4 billion who must rely on burning harmful fuels for cooking. At current rates of progress, the percentage of those living without power is set to fall by just 7% by 2030. In short, the world is not on track to achieve SDG 7: ‘Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all’. What is more, stalling progress on SDG 7, hinders a wide range of other development factors – unelectrified medical facilities put lives at risk, children have fewer hours of light for study, and entrepreneurs can’t make use of competitive technology.
- Powering the sustainable future the world needs calls for greater investment from governments and business and CEZ Group is committed to helping make this future a reality.
The challenge aims to identify and support youth-led enterprises that are tackling the energy divide in the worst affected countries and regions. They welcome solutions from young innovators that:
- Provide affordable energy to communities with limited access.
- Address the negative consequences of lack of energy access. Relevant examples could include:
- Providing sanitation services that are suitable for energy poor areas.
- Food or medicine cooling solutions that can be effective off-grid communities.
- Ensuring children with limited access to electricity receive a quality education.
- Providing clean alternative cooking fuels.
Prize Details
The winning solution will receive:
- Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2023.
- A US$50,000 grant from CEZ Group.
- 12 months of mentorship from a team of CEZ Group professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation.
Criteria
- Aligned: Evidently aligned with the SDG7 challenge.
- Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
- Proven: Solution is readily available, being piloted, implemented, or scaled
- Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example, generating educational outcomes, employment opportunities, or developing skills.
- Measurable: Solution’s impact in society must be adequately measured and/or be measurable.
- Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
- Scalable: Potential to grow impact after expanding in scope or size and/or into other regions.
For more information, visit One Young World.