CIHEAM YOUTH INNOVATION AWARD 2024
CIHEAM YOUTH INNOVATION AWARD 2024 FOR GREEN AND BLUE TRANSITION IN MEDITERRANEAN FOOD SYSTEMS
The CIHEAM launched the Youth Innovation Award in 2022 to reward innovative solutions, designed and implemented by young people, to accelerate green and blue transition processes towards more sustainable, inclusive and equitable food systems in the Mediterranean (SFS Med).
The “CIHEAM Youth Innovation Award for Green and Blue Transition in the Mediterranean” will reward an innovative solution (scientific or entrepreneurial product/service) at least in the pilot phase, developed by a Mediterranean young woman or man aged under 39 years and implemented in a country of the region. The innovation must demonstrate its ability to contribute to the environmental, social and economic sustainability of Mediterranean food systems.
Eligibility criteria
● Applicants must be young Mediterranean, aged not more than 39 years
● Applications should propose an innovative solution (as an individual or on behalf of a
team/startup), at least in a pilot phase to be implemented in an area of the
Mediterranean
Selection criteria
The Award will recompense an innovative entrepreneurial solution, able to generate
technological, scientific, economic or social impacts (job placement) and to demonstrate:
● Innovative and disruptive characteristics in comparison with existing ones;
● Quantitative and qualitative innovative contribution to the environmental, social and
economic sustainability of Mediterranean Food Systems;
● Feasibility and measurable sustainability;
● Scale-up potential, reproducibility, etc.;
● Readiness of the innovation solution (RTL).