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Grupo Santander wants to be at the forefront in solving the demands of our society and helping people and businesses to prosper. That is why we launch, in collaboration with Oxentia Foundation, the Santander X Environmental Challenge, to support entrepreneurs committed to the environment and with innovative ideas to build a more sustainable future.
Winners
BE SUSTAINABLE, BY FOSTERING GREEN FINANCING AND INVESTMENTS
CoGo Connecting Good Ltd.
Cogo Connecting Good, (UK)an app that shows consumers and companies their carbon footprint in real time and how to reduce it.
Climatetrade
Climatetrade, (Spain) a blockchain marketplace where companies can buy carbon credits directly and with full transparency from mitigation project developers to offset their carbon footprint.
SCOOBIC Urban Mobility
Scoobic Urban Mobility, (Spain) provides sustainable solutions for getting around in cities with last-mile vehicles.
BE MINDFUL, ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Xilinat
Xilinat (Mexico) transforms agricultural waste into natural sweeteners through sustainable processing.
Plastecowood Ltd.
Plastecowood, (UK) turns mixed plastics into durable, environmentally-friendly plastic lumber.
Breeze Technologies
Breeze Technologies, ( Germany) helps companies monitor, manage and optimize air quality indoors, in cities and in industrial settings.
What are the challenges we want to face?
Be sustainable, by fostering green financing and investments
Economic recovery requires investing in a more resilient, greener, smarter and inclusive, and more dynamic economy.
How can you bring sustainable investment and financing solutions to people and investors who want to support economic activities with a positive environmental impact?
How can your solution help investors or financial institutions to support companies to take the lead on a transition to a low carbon economy?
Be mindful, about the environmental impact
The transition to a low-carbon and sustainable growth approach, could lead to an economic boost of $26 trillion dollars through 2030. Sustainable development could help create more than 65 million new jobs, according to the Global Commission of Economy and Climate.
How can your solution help individuals and companies, including their supply chain, to measure their environmental impact?
How can you help with solutions that improve the re-invention of businesses and industries, to make them reduce their environmental impact and favour biodiversity?
The Santander X Environmental Challenge opens up a world of possibilities for entrepreneurs. On the one hand, it encourages investors and, ultimately, society itself, to choose these startups and, on the other, this global challenge gives exposure, resources and tools to business ideas on which our immediate future depends.
Who is it meant for?
Entrepreneurs from the countries where Banco Santander operates, with solutions to address climate change and have a positive impact on our environment, with recurring sales of at least one product or service and annual revenue between 200,000 and 5,000,000 euros. Entrepreneurial business with solutions that have an innovative component and the potential to have a positive impact on their environment with measurable indicators.
Prizes
120.000 euros
For the development of the 6 winning solutions
Mentors
Delivered by our group of experts from Oxentia Foundation’s network
Exposure
For the 6 winning startups on Social Media and Grupo Santander official channels
How are the winners selected?
Registration open until April 8th.
Selected by professional experts in the evaluation of entrepreneurship solutions.
The finalists present their solutions to a jury of international leaders in sustainability, entrepreneurship and investment.
Selected by 10 cross-sector jury of international leaders in sustainability, entrepreneurship and investment.
The transition to a low-carbon economy, remains one of the biggest challenges we face in the post-covid-19 era. The coronavirus pandemic has helped to highlight the importance of living in a sustainable and cleaner world. In this new context, a resilient, inclusive and low-carbon economy is essential for economic recovery.
Banco Santander and its commitment to sustainability
At Banco Santander, our purpose is to contribute to the progress of people and businesses, supporting inclusive and sustainable economic growth and promoting the fight against climate change. We are leading the ecological transition towards new sustainable models, promoting numerous initiatives that show that our strategy is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations' Collective Commitment to Climate Action.
Proof of our strong commitment to the environment is that we have achieved carbon neutrality, offsetting all the Co2 emissions generated by our business. In addition, to reduce our own environmental footprint, this year we will also eliminate single-use plastic in our offices and buildings and, by 2025, 100% of the energy we consume will come from renewable sources.
As a global leader in renewable energy project financing, to help our clients transition to a low-carbon economy, we have set another objective to facilitate the mobilisation of EUR 120 billion in green finance from 2019 to 2025 and EUR 220 billion by 2030.
Oxentia Foundation and its commitment to innovation and global entrepreneurship
The Oxentia Foundation was created to support Oxentia’s goal to address global inequalities through innovation and entrepreneurship activities. Globally, Oxentia has designed, developed, and run awards, competitions and programmes supporting early-stage innovators and entrepreneurs to promote commercialisation of science and technology based-innovation projects impacting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Oxentia developed out of the University of Oxford’s technology transfer company, Oxford University Innovation, with the aim to deliver specialist innovation management services to clients in the public and private sector all over the world. Its approach is grounded in a strong Oxford heritage based on over 30 years’ experience in supporting academic innovation and entrepreneurship in Oxford, and globally in over 70 countries.
Oxentia maintains a close working relationship with Oxford University Innovation, including the co-design and delivery of a pre-incubator programme for Oxford start-ups, and tailored entrepreneurship courses for the Oxford University department of Continuing Education. Oxentia has worked collaboratively with Oxford University departments, research centres and other key innovation ecosystem stakeholders.
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