Schneider Electric Ignites Global Innovation in a €10,000 Solar Challenge

Schneider Electric Ignites Global Innovation in a €10,000 Solar Challenge

(IN BRIEF) Schneider Electric has launched registration for its 2025 Schneider Go Green Competition, inviting global teams of students and young entrepreneurs to design innovative energy solutions that enhance reliability, wellbeing, and cost-efficiency. With a theme centered on “Renewable Energy for Life & Livelihood,” the competition is split into solar-powered agriculture and solar-powered microbusiness sectors. Registrations are open from April 1 to May 31, with project proposals due by June 30. The contest offers a €10,000 prize pool, including a bonus Solar Family Home Kit for each winning team member. Emphasizing youth development, Schneider Electric provides mentorship and a premium online course through its university, ensuring participants gain the technical skills needed to navigate the green economy. Testimonials from previous winners highlight the invaluable guidance and collaborative spirit fostered by the program.

(PRESS RELEASE) RUEIL-MALMAISON, 4-Apr-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Schneider Electric, a global leader in digital energy management and automation, has officially opened registration for its 2025 Schneider Go Green Competition. This international challenge, supported by Schneider Electric’s Youth Education & Entrepreneurship and Access to Energy initiatives, invites student teams and young entrepreneurs worldwide to develop innovative solutions that ensure dependable energy access, improve community wellbeing, and reduce costs.

The competition’s theme, “Renewable Energy for Life & Livelihood,” is divided into two primary focus areas. The first emphasizes solar-powered solutions for agriculture—addressing needs from pre- to post-harvesting, storage, and processing. The second area explores solar-powered microbusiness opportunities in sectors like retail, services, refrigeration, manufacturing, and production.

Participants can register from April 1 until May 31, which is also the deadline to assemble teams. Following team formation, competitors must submit their project proposals by June 30. The contest boasts a prize pool of €10,000, with the first-place team awarded €6,000, second-place €2,500, and third-place €1,500. Additionally, every member of the winning teams will receive a Solar Family Home Kit.

“The Schneider Go Green Competition underscores our dedication to fostering emerging talent,” stated Charise Le, Chief Human Resources Officer at Schneider Electric. “By equipping students with mentorship and hands-on learning opportunities, we enable them to devise solutions that tackle real-world challenges. This event not only sparks creativity and teamwork but also reflects our core values of Action and Inclusion. We are thrilled to back such a diverse and innovative group of young minds.”

In its continued effort to empower youth, Schneider Electric is providing participants with exclusive access to a premium online course, “Get into Energy Transition,” offered through Schneider Electric University. Developed in collaboration with the Youth Education & Entrepreneurship program and INCO, the course is designed to boost technical skills in sustainability and deepen understanding of the green economy, preparing students for future careers in the industry.

Mentorship is a cornerstone of the competition. Through structured sessions offered by the Youth Education & Entrepreneurship and Access to Energy programs, participants receive expert guidance to refine their ideas, craft viable solutions, and gain practical insights into the application of their projects. Reflecting on their past experience, winners of the 2022 competition shared, “We were soon assigned a mentor from Schneider Electric, who helped us develop our bold idea. They were our guiding star, helping us to align our project to Schneider’s technical and business requirements. We complemented each other so that our solution was both attractive and closely connected to users’ needs. Throughout the process, we faced challenges, but even difficulties and failures didn’t distract us. We tried to reach the goal the four of us believed in day after day.”

About Schneider Electric

Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.

We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitalization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers,
intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers.

We are a people company with an ecosystem of 150,000 colleagues and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We embrace diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful purpose of a sustainable future for all.

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