Challenge 2
Sierra Leone is highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, particularly in rapidly growing urban areas such as Freetown. During the rainy season, blocked drainage systems and polluted waterways contribute to frequent flooding, damaging homes, disrupting access to essential services, and increasing the risk of disease outbreaks.
The goal: Develop a solution that continuously engages local communities in running river-waste collection initiatives and strengthens resilience to flooding.
Challenge 1
CARE Danmark is a green aid organisation working with a focus on climate, innovation and market-based solutions to identify, test, and scale locally driven climate solutions that benefits the most climate vulnerable populations in the Global South.
Globally, climate change escalates humanitarian needs while the past decades’ level of public humanitarian aid is on rapid decline. This calls for new approaches that reduces dependency on public funds and instead build on market-based approaches to mobilize private capital to drive humanitarian impacts at scale.
OpenInnovation is Copenhagen’s flagship student innovation challenge, bringing over 120 students, researchers, and sustainable innovation enthusiasts together with innovation experts and key actors in the Danish ecosystems.
Sara Dømler
Project Manager
sardera@dtu.dk