MOVING AROUND SÃO PAULO

We called on designers and creative entrepreneurs to come up with bold, groundbreaking creative ideas to tackle the pressing energy issues in Sao Paulo.

Out of the total 452 submissions to the Challenge, more than 60 ideas were submitted for the São Paulo city briefing.  2 projects were nominated for the Student Track, 2 projects for the Professional Track and 6 projects for the Startup Track.

See all nominated entries for Sao Paulo on the platform

‘Through the accelerator, we actually began to comprehend and detail the day-to-day operational and financial needs of designing, building and running the Vertical University Project.’

PRiyanka Bista

Winner Climate Action Challenge 2017 | Vertical University

‘Climate change is a worldwide problem that demands local solutions. By preselecting five cities, this time we hope to increase the impact and receive proposals that will be very concrete and directly applicable in these cities.’

Richard van der laken

founder What design can do

TIMELINE

APPLICATIONS OPEN CALL

4 September – 5 December 2018

SELECTION OF NOMINEES

5 December – 25 january 2019

REFINEMENT OF IDEAS

25 january – 10 February 2019

SELECTION OF the WINNERS

6 March 2019

Acceleration Programme

March – june 2019

Development & execution

July – onwards