Past Winners 2024

The LDP aims to develop a comprehensive plan in several informal areas in the Greater Cairo area, linking the level of planning and service delivery while emphasizing the importance of stakeholder input in the decision-making process. Three projects have been implemented so far from the proposed plans: Modernizing the fish market, renovating a school, converting an open canal into a park, and paving roads in different areas.

BAM, founded in 2019, is an innovative partnership between the Municipality of Milan, the Riccardo Catella Foundation and COIMA to manage public parks, promote urban biodiversity and engage the community through inclusive cultural experiences in nature. BAM is funded through fundraising efforts, features a free cultural program inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals, and is located within an urban development of the Porta Nuova district that has received the world’s first LEED and WELL certification for communities.

This project involves the reimagining of the headquarters of the Sion Research Institute, a research institute that specializes in technology development for the forestry industry. Conveniently located on the edge of the Redwood Forest in the Wakariwarewa Forest Park, the project aims to bring together the workforce previously distributed in small buildings around the campus into a centralized innovation hub, while creating a new access point to the campus to enhance the public face of the Sion Institute.

EatCloud is a startup with three positive goals: Reduce food waste, fight hunger, and help the environment through the use of data. Their digital platform helps redistribute unsold food to fight hunger at scale, avoiding waste. Thanks to AI, EatCloud automates the process of managing surplus food, generating logistics savings, tax benefits, and unprecedented social and environmental impact. Currently operating in Colombia and experimenting in Mexico and Spain, EatCloud is by far the startup that rescues and redistributes the largest volume of unsold food in the world.

Green Energy provided a solution for Hambaran’s cassava starch factory, which was suffering from issues such as unstable electricity and methane emissions from wastewater treatment. The company was able to convert the biogas produced into electricity, reducing harmful emissions and improving water quality in the local community, as well as promoting sustainable development in rural communities and the global food supply chain.