The Global Impact Challenge Ukraine was opened at a large conference hall of Chernobyl NPP on April 3. This is a program aimed at helping to develop solutions for global problems of the mankind. Its participants, by using state-of-the-art disruptive technologies, have to implement ideas and projects which in the nearest 10 years will improve lives of a billion people on earth. The Chernobyl NPP site was selected the program’s starting point as a place of the severest environmental and technogenic challenge of the mankind, which is successfully addressed.
Topic of the Global Impact Challenge Ukraine 2017 — climate change. Teams from all regions of Ukraine had an opportunity to present their own vision in addressing problems of global warming, pollution of air, water and soil, waste processing, loss of biodiversity, elimination of consequences of the ChNPP accident and other large-scale human-induced disasters, as well as drying of water bodies, deforestation, reduction of emissions of fluorine gases and other chemical waste.
The competition winner will receive a scholarship for 10-week summer Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2017 at NASA Ames Research Center in the Silicon Valley.
The Global Impact Challenge Ukraine is carried out by the Singularity University (USA) in cooperation with the SingularityU Kyiv Chapter and public organization greencubator.
