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We’re Fighting the Global Climate Crisis, One Challenge at a Time
From agriculture to water to oil and gas, our Challenge program works to connect you to end-users looking for cleantech solutions to sustainability hurdles across regions and sectors.
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Check out the current industry challenges we’re looking to solve:
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![Sustainable Agtech for Profitability: IFAO Challenge]()
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Sustainable Agtech for Profitability: IFAO Challenge Revolutionize Ontario's field crop farming. Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario (IFAO) is seeking innovative agtech solutions that improve decision-making and analysis of field crop farmers' operations, enabling optimized soil health, biodiversity, profitability, and overall sustainability management. Presented By: ![Innovative Farmer's Association of Ontario]()
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![Canadian Space Agency: Aqualunar Challenge]()
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Canadian Space Agency: Aqualunar Challenge Think your water purification solution is out-of-this-world? The Canadian Space Agency is seeking powerful water technologies that could be used to purify lunar water, enabling future space missions as part of their newly launched Aqualunar Challenge. Presented By: ![Canadian Space Agency]()
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Thanks to Project Green Light, Novion had the opportunity to partner with the City of Vancouver to design and deliver our Climate Intelligence Platform. With this powerful tool, cities can now effectively design, plan, monitor, and manage their green stormwater infrastructure and mitigate issues like urban flooding while improving water quality. This partnership allowed us to expand our reach across Canada to establish best practices that will shape the future of green infrastructure management.
Challenge History
The list of made-in-Canada climate solutions continues to grow as cleantech ventures from across the country solve unique sustainability hurdles through our Innovation Challenge program.
Challenge Case Studies
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![From Pilot to Municipal Green Infrastructure Go-To]()
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From Pilot to Municipal Green Infrastructure Go-To The City of Vancouver Challenge provided a successful pilot opportunity that enabled Novion to develop their product offering, using the results to approach other municipalities. Presented By: ![City of Vancouver]()
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A Circular Approach To Renewable Energy Winning the SGD Connect challenge and establishing Vestas as a potential customer has significantly enabled ZILA BioWorks to secure financial support and advance their technology. Presented By: ![Vestas]()
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![Increasing Partnerships and Reducing GHGs in Oil & Gas]()
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Increasing Partnerships and Reducing GHGs in Oil & Gas CRIN’s Low Emission Fuels and Products Technology Challenge provided funding for technologies that reduce the carbon intensity of the products and processes from Canada’s oil and gas industry, including transportation fuels and other hydrocarbon-derived products. Presented By: ![Clean Resource Innovation Network]()
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The Soil Health and Nutrient Management Challenge has given us the opportunity to collaborate with other innovators and bring the FARMEYE platform to new audiences. Our software platform will help Ontario farmers measure and manage large-scale natural capital datasets to achieve Science Based Targets initiatives (SBTis) and use the most advanced Technology-Stack and accreditation to verify Natural Capital datasets, including soil health, soil carbon, water quality, and biodiversity.
Foresight also offers the SDG Connect Challenge service. We connect Canadian businesses to global market opportunities by running innovation Challenges with international partners and local companies looking to overcome barriers to sustainability. There's no cost to companies other than their time. Each challenge takes five months to complete.