Blue Globe’s Impact Around the World

  • Big Education Challenge

    Big Education Challenge

    Big Change, an education charity, selected Blue Globe Innovation to deliver both outreach and prize management for the Big Education Challenge. This challenge was dedicated to support and reward bold ideas or new projects with the potential to transform education and learning in the UK.

  • Afri-plastics

    Afri-Plastics Challenge

    Utilising its Solver Scouting™ strategy, Blue Globe provided support for a large-scale challenge with three strands; rewarding the best solutions to addressing marine plastic litter in a way that promotes gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

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    Acoustic Detection of Industrial Equipment Anomalies Challenge

    Working in partnership with Equinor, an international energy company, Blue Globe performed its Solver Scouting™ outreach services to detect experts who can identify technologies for automated acoustic monitoring, detection, and identification of abnormal conditions or behaviour of equipment in industrial and production process settings.

  • NASA VR Challenge

    NASA VR Challenge

    DescripIn partnership with HeroX, Blue Globe Innovation delivered its targeted outreach services for the NASA MarsXR Challenge, through the use of Solver Scouting™ services. This opportunity was presented on behalf of NASA, Buendea, and Epic Games, and was seeking Unreal Engine developers to build VR simulations of activities related to early human exploration of Mars. tion goes here

  • The African Drone Soccer Challenge

    Blue Globe Innovation built on its existing connections in Africa to lead the African Drone Soccer Challenge, the continent’s first drone soccer competition, in Lagos,Nigeria.
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  • Carbon Zero Grand Challenge

    Blue Globe Innovation partnered with PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, and other innovation partners to deliver the Carbon Zero Grand Challenge, dedicated to achieving net-zero emissions in water facilities across Singapore.

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  • Duquesne Light Company Challenge Design

    Blue Globe worked with subject matter experts (SMEs) at DLC to analyse research and assess the state of the network’s technology.

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  • Solver Scouting™

    Blue Globe has developed a bespoke service, Solver Scouting ™, which seeks to identify “hidden” solvers and inform them of the challenge and its requirements.

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  • Global Crowd

    The development of the Global Crowd platform not only requires regular research into innovation challenges and the ability to create cohesive communication and branding, but a willingness to try new strategies.

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  • Bounce Back Challenges

    The Bounce Back Challenges were created by Blue Globe Innovation as a set of innovation challenges to identify and celebrate the best innovations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • FORECASTING AFRICAN STORMS APPLICATION (FASTA) - UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

    The Forecasting African STorms Application (FASTA) is a project that emerged from promising research undertaken by the University of Leeds to improve weather forecasting across Africa.

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  • AFRICAN DRONE BUSINESS CHALLENGE (ADBC), KIGALI, RWANDA

    The African Drone Business Challenge was an open innovation challenge inviting Africa-based drone enterprises to develop and present their ideas to a panel of thought leaders.

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  • COVIDACTION, WORLDWIDE

    With the sudden surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an immediate and global need for ventilator equipment to assist in treating and managing the novel coronavirus.

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  • IDEAS TO IMPACT - ADAPTATION AT SCALE PRIZE, NEPAL

    The Adaptation at Scale Prize sought to identify community-driven initiatives to respond to climate change in Nepal, and help broaden the scope of these initiatives across the country.

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  • IDEAS TO IMPACT - CLIMATE INFORMATION PRIZE, KENYA

    Climate information services (CISs) provide farmers with vital temperature, rainfall, and wind data to help them make informed decisions about their work and crop output.

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  • EUROPEAN COMMISSION - FOOD SCANNER INNOVATION PROGRAMME, BRUSSELS

    The EU Food Scanner Innovation Programme sought to create a device that would scan food and give accurate nutrition information in real-time, encouraging consumers to make healthier and safer choices.

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  • IDEAS TO IMPACT - GLOBAL LEAP OFF-GRID REFRIGERATION CHALLENGE, WORLDWIDE

    The Global LEAP awards sought to identify innovative solutions to provide refrigeration in off-grid or weak-grid areas and increase accessibility for these products, improving human health and productivity in the process.

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