CleanTech Challenge

CleanTech Challenge (CTC) iFollowing massive success in recent years, the CleanTech Challenge is set to launch again in March 2018. Not long to go now so pull together your teams and get innovating for a more sustainable future! This platform is designed for young innovators to express their ideas and get their voices heard. By bringing to innovators to those who can make these ideas happen, we at Sustainability Innovation Center are helping grow products and services that promote urban development, sustainable innovation, wellbeing and economic growth. This year’s Clean Tech Challenge focusses on sustainable cities. With over 50% of the worlds population now located in urban areas, it is more important than ever before to bring together great minds and ideas. Solving problems from waste and pollution reduction, to social inclusion and creating change when it comes to issues such as climate change. Challenge for Sustainable cities aims to attract realistic practical and academic solutions through a 2-stage competition. Pull together a team of likeminded thinkers and we will provide the guidance, feedback and mentorship from industry professionals & innovation and business experts that will get them noticed! We will assess your projects and if you are selected as one of our finalists, you will have the chance to participate in the European Clean Tech “Boot Camp” finals in London together with the winners of other CleanTech competitions in Europé. There, you will have the opportunity to market and export your ideas internationally and improve on ideas together with Sustainability Innovation Center’s partners. It’s a great opportunity to build your professional network and learn from others interested in sustainability and innovation. .

Open Innovation

We believe in a hacker approach to sustainability: just get out there and hack into it! Sustainability Hackathon is a series of events designed to bring IT innovators together to create and implement new ideas for a more sustainable future. Get excited and build things, use and produce open data and codes, be creative, use computer technology and ideas to change the world and build a better future for us all! .

Green Business Guide

At Sustainability innovation Center, we believe issues of sustainability and social justice are not just challenges for communities and governments to solve but highly relevant for long term profitable businesses and other organizations in Sweden. The mission of the WeGoGreen project is to provide assistance in sustainable practice for these groups through expert guidance and support. The WeGoGreen guide provides a sustainable regional and national platform where organizations can measure and manage their environment and social governance performance responsibly and transparently. The WeGoGreen project actively contributes to the 3E notion on the Environmental, Economical and Efficient sustainable objectives as developed by the UN. .

Digitalisation, tests and measures

"Under the SEC set up, a new sustainability ‘testbed’ has been established. Here new ideas and innovations are collected, tested and measure against the UN criteria for sustainable development. The digitalization of society is one of the most critical issues of our time. Today digital artefacts and online practices penetrate a major portion of our everyday organizational, social and economic activities. The scale and scope of the transformative power in emerging phenomena such as connectivity, platforms, algorithmic power, and big data is more vigorous than other disruptive technologies in history. This leads to great opportunities, but also to great challenges. The technical development together with the growing openness and culture of participation and engagement in value creation fostered by the Internet, has lowered the barriers for citizens to take part in problem solving and innovation to address societal challenges. At the same time the relatively few infrastructure providers and digital platform owners that enable these activities, gain much power, leading to challenges related to transparency, autonomy and governance. The generation of vast amounts of data by devices as well users and their behaviour, creates powerful opportunities for innovative services and products, but also for the tracking of citizens and customers, that raises important issues regarding integrity and safety. There is an urgent need to explore the scope and transformative power of digitalization for the wider society, and its relation to strategy and governance in order to act on opportunities and handle threats. The initiative for the digital society is an effort to mobilize researchers to join forces in order to contribute to a digital society that is inclusive, equal, sustainable, and safe on a global scale as well innovative and competitive.