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2022 Young Global Changers Recoupling Awards
On March 28-29, 2022 the 10 finalists were invited to attend the 2022 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, where they presented their projects in front of an international jury in an hybrid event. The three jury members – Katharina Lima de Miranda (Research Director, Council for Global Problem-Solving), Abir Ibrahim (Founder, Inua Naturals & YGC Ambassador for Africa) and Guillaume Lafortune (Vice President & Head of Paris Office, Sustainable Development Solutions Network) – evaluated the projects not only according to the extent to which they contribute to recoupling; they also looked for particularly novel, unique and original approaches that address specific issues that have been neglected so far. The awards ceremony was opened by Ole Spies (YGC Program Lead) and moderated by the Declan Curry. Special guests were the renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs (Professor & Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University) and Dennis Snower (President, Global Solutions Initiative). The jury selected a winner as well as a 2nd and 3rd prize.
Watch the award recording here or learn more about the young changemakers and their amazing projects of the 2022 cohort below!
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More InformationMeet the Winners!
Get to know the jury selected 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners of the 2022 Recoupling Awards: Mathias Charles Yabe of AkoFresh, Brianna Kerr of Kua, and Tania Rosas of Origin Learning Fund & O-lab app.
Congratulations to these remarkable young global changemakers for their incredible and inspiring achievements!
1. AkoFresh
Green cold chain solution which helps farmers to reduce postharvest losses, offering a vital pathway to alleviate poverty & improve nutrition.
2. Kua
Coffee that challenges supply chain inequity and combats climate change. Kua’s closed-loop coffee service offers a powerful alternative to the traditional take-make-waste business model, delivering net-positive outcomes for people and planet.
3. Origin Learning Fund & O-lab app
Non-profit organization and start-up which offers a customizable offline learning app through which they are helping to improve education, inclusivity, sustainability, and digital literacy in rural communities by making digital education more accessible.
Meet the Other Finalists
Climatize Earth Inc.
Platform which is helping credit card users to invest into crowd-financing clean energy projects. They are aiming to democratize, decarbonize, and decentralize the energy transition.
Citizen-led Tracking
Initiative focused on empowering grassroots community stakeholders to strengthen public service delivery. They demand accountability on government expenditure and work to enhance transparency
D\carb Future Economy Forum
Forum for dialogue between multi-stakeholders on one the most pressing challenges of the green economic transformation decarbonization.
Octopus Indonesia
Waste management application that allows users to manage their waste, find nearby waste collectors for waste pick-up and help to improve recycling knowledge and overall recycling rate. The platform operates in six cities in Indonesia with more than 9000 waste collectors using their app, providing professional services to more than 100.000 users, and it promotes environmental sustainability and economic empowerment by integrating informal actors into an efficient waste management system.
Patapia
A social initiative that provides an economic engine that enables productive vulnerable groups, particularly women, to have access to services that significantly improve their economic opportunities and quality of life.
PEACE CROPS
Non-profit project which offers trainings for self-employment and self-sustainable organic food production. The project aims to empower displaced orphans as well as marginalized women from war affected communities.
SINA Global - Social Innovation Academy
Initiative which promotes self-organized learning spaces for marginalized youth and refugees in eight African countries. Through their work they are empowering youth, promoting self-development of personal and professional skills so that the participants can find their own solutions and create start-ups.
Meet the 40 Semi-Finalists
climate &
environment
economy
agriculture
economic
empowerment
diversity &
inclusion
mobility
& infrastructure
civic
engagement
political
involvement
education, skills & tech
