Applications Invited for Efficiency for Access Design Challenge 2021 – 2022

About the Organization

Efficiency for Access is a global coalition working to promote high performing appliances that enable access to clean energy for the world’s poorest people. It is a catalyst for change, accelerating the growth of off-grid appliance markets to boost incomes, reduce carbon emissions, improve quality of life and support sustainable development.

Efficiency for Access consists of 15 Donor Roundtable Members, 12 Programme Partners, and more than 30 Investor Network members. Current Efficiency for Access Coalition members have programmes and initiatives spanning 44 countries and 22 key technologies.

About the Event

The Efficiency for Access Design Challenge is a global, multi-disciplinary competition that empowers teams of university students to help accelerate clean energy access.

To provide sustainable energy for all, we urgently need to enhance the efficiency and affordability of high performing appliances. The Challenge invites teams of university students to create affordable, high-performing off-grid appliances and enabling technologies.

By bringing together and inspiring students, the competition aims to foster innovation in the off-grid appliances sector. It also seeks to help address barriers that limit market expansion in this area. Furthermore, the Challenge seeks to forge beneficial partnerships between universities, researchers and industry partners at a global level. In this way, it will further strengthen academic capacity within the off-grid sector.

The Efficiency for Access Design Challenge starts in September 2021 and ends with the Grand Final in June 2022. This year students from 18 universities in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, Uganda and the UK are participating. The Challenge starts with a kick-off workshop at each university and includes a series of webinars, mentoring by experts in the sector and a prototype fund application call.

Deadline

28 Feburary 2021

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