Meet the Finalist Teams

Community-Based Action Plan for T1D Children

A community-based action-plan that connects families, Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) staff, and safe storage sites to ensure insulin continuity during emergencies.

SDG Data Navigator

The Health Data Navigator (HDN) is an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide instant, verifiable, and accessible information on SDG 3 health indicators. Built on official data sources, the tool enables journalists, researchers, and policymakers to quickly access validated statistics and visualizations to counter misinformation in real-time.

Fishnergy

Fishnergy addresses the challenge of mounting fish waste and scarce electricity in coastal communities. In regions like Maluku, where artisanal fisheries sustain thousands, up to 30% of fish production ends as waste while reliable energy remains inaccessible. Our solution transforms this waste into biogas, generating electricity to power cold storage hubs, extend fish shelf life, and cut carbon emissions. By linking waste management with clean energy access, Fishnergy boosts food security, enhances fisher livelihoods, and reduces environmental impact. With scalable potential across Indonesia’s fisheries sector, it stands as a practical, innovative model of the circular economy aligned with global sustainability goals 7, 12, and 13.

Ertoba

Ertoba (meaning "unity" in Georgian) is an AI-powered language learning platform designed to preserve endangered Georgian languages: Mingrelian/Megrelian, Svan, and Abkhazian. These are not dialects, but distinct linguistic systems currently facing extinction due to lack of use in education, media, and family life. The platform fosters linguistic diversity by providing marginalized communities with tools to learn native languages' phonetic, grammatical, and structural characteristics. Ertoba supports the transmission of linguistic heritage across generations and strengthens cultural identity by integrating local knowledge into modern technology.

Green Materials

Nanocellulose-based aerogels, hydrogels, and carbon aerogels from agricultural biomass waste using eco-friendly methods such as citric acid hydrolysis. By transforming residues like orange peels into high-value materials, the initiative tackles major environmental challenges: nanocellulose aerogels for water purification (oil spills and wastewater), hydrogels for biodegradable biofilms to replace plastics, and carbon aerogels for CO₂ capture to mitigate climate change.

Team Factflow

Student-friendly guidebook that simplifies weather, climate, and planetary health into a format that students can relate to, learn and enjoy reading.

Wetlands4Wellness

Wetlands4Wellness is a youth-led, community-driven project focused on restoring the Ondiri Wetland in Kiambu County, Kenya, by integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) with Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). The initiative tackles wetland degradation, biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and related public health risks caused by urbanization and unsustainable land use. Through ecological restoration, agroforestry, riparian greening, and cultural conservation practices, the project strengthens climate resilience, improves water and food security, and reduces disease risks. Its outputs include a multimedia casebook, info brief, restoration maps, and educational toolkits, developed in collaboration with local communities.

Peellnnova

Peellnnova is a Ghanaian health-focused start-up that transforms fruit peel waste together with wood waste into affordable, eco-friendly mosquito-repelling products to protect homes from mosquitoes and other insects which intend improves lives.

Eco²- SHE

The Eco²- SHEis an innovative, sustainable sanitary product made from agricultural waste such as sugarcane bagasse and sorghum bagasse. Designed to address environmental and menstrual hygiene challenges, this biodegradable pad offers an affordable, non-toxic, and accessible solution for menstruating individuals in low-income settings. By promoting circular waste usage, women’s health, and education, this project contributes significantly to SDGs 3, 5, 9, 12, and 13.