Challenge:Future Competitions stand at the heart of all think tank’s activities. In this open innovation, sustainability-focused competition, youth teams compete to solve unique global challenges. Every solution submitted by the competing teams is evaluated through a combination of community votes and expert judges’ grades. The judges perform an important task of analyzing, evaluating, and giving targeted feedback to each and every solution. Challenge:Future, as an initiative promoting innovation, ideation, and sustainability, would like to provide fair, balanced, and professional evaluation.
Expert judges are invited and nominated from diverse fields to facilitate fair and informed decision to progress a solution to the next phase of the competition. Typically over 100 judges from various countries, institutions, and organizations, age groups, gender and fields of expertise take part in the Challenge:Future Competitions.
To choose the Grand Prize Winners, a special panel of judges will be invited to the Summit 2013 to hear the Finalists presentations live and select the Winners. This panel of judges consists of business leaders, futurists, researchers, as well as youth judges from the C:F Community Community.
VALID FOR THIS CHALLENGE
FIRST ROUND
Feb 18, 2013: Team Creation
Feb 18-27, 2013: Submit
Mar 01 - Mar 13, 2013: VOTE!
Mar 20, 2013: Semi-Finalists announced
SECOND ROUND / SEMI-FINALS
Apr 3 - Apr 24, 2013: Submit
Apr 26 - May 13, 2013: VOTE!
May 20, 2013: Finalists announced
FINALS - C:F SUMMIT 2013
Sep 19 – 26 C:F SUMMIT 2013
Sep 25 – Finalists Presentations
Sep 26 – Winner Announced