Design Briefs

Utilize the posted design briefs to guide your team’s project and to ensure that all submission requirements are met.

2020-2021

The Design Brief challenged teams to create a nature-inspired innovation (a product, service, or system) that aligns with one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals, outlined by the United Nations:

• End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, sea and marine resources for sustainable development
• Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
• Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

OUR SOLUTION

2019-2020

The Design Brief challenged teams to create a nature-inspired innovation (a product, service, or system) that aligns with one or more of the following Sustainable Development Goals, outlined by the United Nations:

• End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

• Build resilient infrastructure and promote inclusive sustainable industrialization

• Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

• Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources

• Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss

OUR SOLUTION