Deadline: 19/04/2022

The International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3) launched the ISC3 Innovation Challenge in Sustainable Chemistry and Waste: Prevention, Valorisation & Management. Contest applications will be accepted until April 19, 2022. The winner of the Innovation Challenge 2021/2022 will be awarded a monetary prize of 15,000 EUR.

The ISC3 Innovation Challenge is organized annually and focuses on a specific topic that follows the respective focus topic of the ISC3. The current third Innovation Challenge addresses innovators from around the world developing solutions in the following thematic areas:

Waste Prevention:

    - Avoiding and reducing environmental impact

    - Durability and resilience

    - Closing material, molecule, and energy cycles

    - Waste reduction/avoidance by resource-efficient chemical and

       biotechnological production

    - Substitution of critical product ingredients preventing recycling

    - Product design for longevity and better recyclability

Waste Valorisation:

    - Recovery and reuse of waste streams: plastic and other materials waste, electronic waste,

      agricultural and food waste, construction waste, production waste, wastewater and other   

      waste streams

    - Recycling, beneficial reuse, value recovery

    - Waste reclamation

    - Energy and scarce element recovery

    - Business models facilitating waste collection and valorisation

Waste Management:

    - Safe and sound management of waste

    - Waste and waste-water treatment

    - Harmful substances in materials and products

    - Collection, transport, treatment, disposal, monitoring and regulation

ISC3 2022 special focus topic:

    - Waste management related to renewable energy supply (e.g. recycling/recyclability of   

       batteries, wind power plant blades, PV materials)

Proposals submitted by innovators and entrepreneurs from developing countries and proposals that are tackling challenges in developing countries are particularly encouraged, as are proposals coming from female entrepreneurs.