2022 Baltic Sustainability Awards (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)

Deadline: 14-Oct-22

Applications are now open for Baltic Sustainability Awards 2022 to celebrate the innovators, changemakers, and leaders in sustainability.

They aspire to highlight and honour the brightest minds and leading-edge achievements in sustainability innovation. The Awards bring together Baltic business leaders, GreenTech startups, organizations, and aspiring individuals to salute their triumphs and innovations in sustainability.

Awards Categories

Impact: Changes, improvements or additions to business processes, services, product or R&D that reduces the negative impact on the environment, further sustainable (think the social and governance aspect as well) business practices or creates long-term stakeholder value by focusing on the environmental dimensions of doing business.
- Sub-Categories
  - Renewable energy
  - Sustainable resources
  - Supply chain
  - Sustainable cities & mobility
  - Social initiatives
Innovation: The most promising cutting-edge innovation in sustainability or GreenTech area developed by an enterprise or startup. Innovation by an enterprise or a sustainability startup itself that has a positive environmental impact at its core that aims to use technology and science to create solutions to global sustainability problems, from plastic waste to renewable energy.
- Sub-Categories
  - Enterprises
  - Startups
Changemaker: Aspiring individuals making a lasting effort for sustainability, bringing attention to the needed change, acting as an example to follow or educating and inspiring others to act.

Winners to be Selected

Impact
- Baltic Winner in Renewable energy
- Baltic Winner in Sustainable resources
- Baltic Winner in Supply chain
- Baltic Winner in Sustainable cities & mobility
- Baltic Winner in Social initiatives
Innovation
- Best Baltic Winner in Innovation sub-category for Enterprises
- Baltic Winner in Innovation sub-category for Startups
Changemaker
- Estonian Changemaker
- Latvian Changemaker
- Lithuanian Changemaker

Eligibility Criteria

Baltic Sustainability Awards (the Awards) is an awards process created to identify and recognize large and small to medium-sized enterprises, NGOs or public sector organizations, startups, and outstanding individuals contributing to the Baltic region’s sustainability and innovation development.
To be eligible for participation in the Awards, the applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Impact and Innovation categories: Enterprise must be registered in Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia (or, if unregistered, have their principal place of business in one/multiple of previously mentioned countries). If the enterprise operates in all Baltic countries, it can apply at the Baltic level. The same rules apply to other potential applicants: organizations, public institutions, NGOs, startups.
- Changemaker categories: individuals must be actively involved in promoting sustainability in particularly Baltic region countries.

Selection Process

Impact
- 3 finalists selected in each sub-category by the Impact Jury, announced on Nov 9
- Finalist pitches at Awards ceremony on Nov 30
- Winners chosen during Awards ceremony on Nov 30 by Jury
Innovation
- chosen during Awards ceremony on Nov 30 by Jury
Changemaker
- 3 finalists selected in Baltic state by the Changemaker Jury, announced on Nov 9
- Public voted for their winners between Nov 9 and Nov 30
- Winners announced during Awards ceremony on Nov 30

For more information, visit https://www.balticsustainabilityawards.eu/