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Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge 6th Edition
Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge 6th Edition
SOIC 6th Edition Open Category
We are inviting innovative solution providers to submit your pitch decks and pilot plans under the SOIC 6th Edition Open Category x TLC, which focuses on 2 themes:
- Decarbonisation
- Cool Earth
Opportunities for Applicants of
SOIC 6th Edition Open Category
Innovators applying to the SOIC 6th Edition Open Category will be automatically entered into TLC, so you do not have to apply for SOIC 6th Edition and TLC separately. The applications will then be evaluated under both SOIC 6th Edition and TLC. You will also stand a chance to win prizes and access opportunities from both challenges.
Benefits for SOIC 6th Edition Applicants: 
- Automatic entry to TLC 2025, with an opportunity to compete for the TLC prizes (S$2 million and other potential investments).
- An opportunity to compete for a S$75,000 cash prize, sponsored by Hexagon Group under SOIC 6th Edition.
- Potential inclusion in the pipeline for Temasek Trust’s Catalytic Capital for Climate & Health (C3H), an impact-first vehicle that provides early-stage funding for solutions.
- Exposure to companies with industry applications in the areas of Decarbonisation and Cool Earth.
- Exposure to growth catalysts, such as VCs, through SOIC 6th Edition partners and events.
Please note that being invited to apply to the Catalytic Capital for Climate & Health (C3H) programme does not provide applicants priority during evaluation.
More on SOIC 6th Edition Open Category
SOIC Open Category x TLC is looking for disruptive, deep-tech solutions that can provide scalable and impactful solutions to reduce carbon emissions at scale across diverse industries.
In addition, SOIC Open Category has garnered strong industry interest in the same Decarbonisation and Cool Earth themes.
Under the 2 themes, there are multiple topics that are backed by participating companies with industry applications they are interested to find solutions for.
Other than Temasek Foundation, Temasek Trust and Hexagon Group viewing your proposals, these participating companies will also be reviewing your submissions for their respective industry applications, which could lead to further conversations and potential pilot opportunities for you.
Under the themes of Decarbornisation
and Cool Earth, the topics include:
1. Decarbonisation
Leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency and optimise processes across all sustainability efforts.
To provide additional exposure for innovators, proposals may also be shared with demand drivers from the AI Open Innovation Challenge.
Developing cost-effective energy generation from renewable sources, technologies for clean energy transition, and solutions for long-term energy storage. This could include tidal energy, hydropower, energy storage systems, green hydrogen and ammonia solutions.
Creating packaging solutions that reduce energy consumption in manufacturing and logistics, contributing to overall energy efficiency. intelligence to enhance efficiency.
Innovating in transportation systems to improve energy efficiency in hard-to-abate sectors such as aviation and marine.
Developing effective capture and conversion technologies for carbon, turning it into value-added products or achieving permanent carbon removal and storage. This could include waste-to-resource conversion (conversion of point-source carbon, biomass-based or other waste carbon into high-value products like sustainable aviation fuels, marine fuels, chemicals, fertilisers, proteins or stable building materials).
Improving energy efficiency in the food and agriculture sector through innovative agricultural technologies. This could include precision agriculture solutions for improvement in yield & soil conditions, and water-tech for rural applications.
Significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in the built environment through advanced construction technologies. This could include low-carbon materials for construction.
2. Cool Earth
Developing technologies, materials, or systems that help urban environments and populations withstand and adapt to rising temperatures. This could include innovative cooling solutions, heat-resistant materials, or strategies to mitigate urban heat island effects.
Inventing medical technologies or interventions that address health issues worsened by climate change. This could include solutions for heat-related illnesses, tech-enabled low cost health-care delivery / surveillance, and point-of-care diagnostics/devices for low & middle income economies.
Creating solutions that help communities and ecosystems adapt to the changing climate. This may involve blue carbon solutions (e.g. seaweed cultivation, mangrove restoration), green carbon solutions (e.g. bamboo cultivation, low-methane agriculture), flood prevention technologies, drought-resistant agriculture, innovative approaches to protect biodiversity in the face of climate change.
Industry Applications
The following companies are participating in the SOIC Open Category with their respective industry applications. They will review the proposals for further discussions and potential pilot opportunities:
- ADNOC: How might we create a transportable module (e.g. caravan), which is fully self-sustainable operationally, (requiring minimal maintenance, without external water and power supplies), that can be deployed as a low-cost residential option in (i) remote areas for on-site employees, and (ii) urban areas for the general populace?
- ARLANXEO How might we transform ARLANXEO’s primary waste streams (spent caustic and/or spent alumina gel) into valuable resources, for reintegration into ARLANXEO’s manufacturing processes?
- Kuok Maritime: How might we use innovative digital solutions to enhance vessel efficiency and optimise energy consumption in Singapore's maritime sector?
- LAB7: How can we develop cost-effective carbon utilisation technologies that minimise environmental impact, offset greenhouse gas emissions and create valuable products to support Circular Carbon Economy?
- LAB7: How can we apply advancements in engineering to develop more efficient, scalable and cost-effective electrochemical energy storage solutions that reduce dependency on non-renewable resources and support sustainable energy transition?
- Lenovo: How might we use novel, alternative bio-based packaging that remains sleek, robust, lightweight and 100% renewable for laptops?
- Marquis: How might we utilise novel technologies to aggregate and process Ethanol more effectively, leveraging Singapore's unique/existing infrastructure (refineries, storage facilities & ports), to decarbonize the Transport (Aviation, Maritime, and Land) Industries.
- Micron: How might we transition to carbon-neutral technologies or green fuels for our critical systems, particularly abatement systems and Diesel Uninterruptible Power Supply (DUPS)?
- Renault: How might we reinvent the car from an engineering and advanced materials standpoint (e.g. new lightweight materials, new ways to generate energy inside the vehicle, energy consumption reduction for electronic parts/systems, new solutions to replace rare earths in engine) to achieve carbon neutrality?
- Wilmar Trading: How might we leverage AI to support biodiversity monitoring at the farm level & optimisation of resource use (e.g. by reducing inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides) through readily available remote sensing information?
Your Solution Should Be:
- Carbon negative in the overall lifecycle and have zero or minimal externalities;
- Technology-based (physical or chemical);
- Commercially viable and scalable;
- Feasible to conduct a pilot in Singapore or within Southeast Asia.