The $9 million Sustainable Cities Challenge aims to harness the power, creativity and energy of innovation to improve access to safe, equitable and sustainable mobility solutions for all.
Stage 1: Call to cities
In this stage, launched in June 2023, we were seeking cities that wished to host an open innovation challenge to attract innovators to solve their most pressing mobility problems.
We received more than 200 entries from over 150 cities across 46 countries. From there, we chose 10 cities for an intensive capacity-building phase in Autumn 2023, including cities in Brazil, Colombia, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Stage 2: Call to innovators via three city challenges
Detroit, Varanasi and Venice were selected to host local city challenges, launching in 2024, supported by $3 million in funding for innovators per challenge.
Find out more about the challenges:
Detroit City Challenge
Entries for this challenge are now closed. Winners have now been selected.
Venice City Challenge
Entries for this challenge are now closed. Winners have now been selected.
Varanasi City Challenge
Entries for this challenge are now closed. Winners have now been selected.
To learn more, visit the Sustainable Cities Challenge website.
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