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Team Backcasters from Singapore wins the 2009/10 Challenge:Future competition
Bled (Slovenia), 18 May 2010
Team Backcasters from National University of Singapore is the grand winner of the 2009/10 Challenge: Future, a global student competition aimed at promoting collaboration and innovation for the world’s sustainable future. The team impressed the members of the judging panel with the most innovative, feasible, and sustainable solution for New Metro Interior Design. National University of Singapore (NUS) has just been announced as the winner of the Most Innovative School Award in this year's Challenge: Future competition.
The team
Backcasters
consisting of
Chen Sin Tan
and
Yen Ching Liewhas
received the
Challenge: Future Grand Award
of
20,000 €
at the Challenge: Future Summit Gala Awards Ceremony and got the opportunity to present their solution again in front of all Gala attendees, including several business leaders.
Since its launch in September 2009, the Challenge: Future competition has united over
14 000 students
from
184 countries
and
1000 universities and business schools.
Winners of each of the three final challenges were also announced during the final Gala event:
(1) Team
Backcasters
as winner of the
Breakthrough Idea challenge
(2) Team
SureViva
as the winner of the
IdeeaLab challenge
(3) Team
180 Degrees
as the
IEDC challenge
on sustainable development
Held under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr.
Danilo Türk
, the five-day international forum offered also keynotes and insights from international speakers, including
Donald J. Johnston
, OECD Secretary-General from 1996 to 2006 and
Joel A. Barker
, futurist and best-selling author.
Challenge: Future
was established by three partners from Slovenia, deeply committed to sustainability, prosperity and innovation:
Third Millennium Knowledge
, an incubator for new sustainability knowledge leading Challenge: Future strategy and IT development;
CEEMAN
, a network of 180 business schools, universities and other partners in 43 countries worldwide; and
IEDC-Bled School of Management
, one of the leading and most innovative business schools in the Central and Eastern Europe. The competition encourages students to discuss and come up with creative solutions to some of the challenges the world is facing today, which would contribute to a prosperous, fair and more sustainable future. It also offers various levels of engagement for youth, faculty members, schools and international organizations and partners.
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