Youth Education &
Entrepreneurship Program
An exciting global challenge open to teams of students and young entrepreneurs from all backgrounds. Your mission? Identify a specific energy access, efficiency, or reliability challenge faced by a real community, and design a clean energy solution that directly addresses it. Your solution must be commercially viable, environmentally friendly, and built to last.
Energy Tech for Local Impact:
Empowering You to Lead the Energy Transition
We empower you to lead the energy transition by embracing key values:
Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, and Teamwork.
Challenge Theme: Energy Tech for Local Impact
Identify a specific energy access, efficiency, or reliability challenge faced by a real community, and design a clean energy solution that directly addresses it.
Your solution must be commercially viable, environmentally friendly,
and built to last.
Your Project Proposals should be
Affordable
Making clean energy accessible to all, including low-income communities, by prioritizing cost-effective solutions.
Sustainable
Built to last—recyclable, repairable, and well-documented to support long-term use, maintenance, and continuous learning.
Innovative
Introducing new and creative solutions to energy challenges.
Local
Designed with locally available components, ensuring that the system can be installed, operated, and maintained by professionals trained within the country.
Create meaningful impact
Your idea should consider
Define the Energy Gap
Clearly describe the specific problem.
Business Model Viability
Present a financial model for
your proposed solution.
Efficiency Gains
Show the energy cost reduction
or productivity gain your solution delivers.
Local Impact
Outline how your solutions addresses local needs such as employment & education,
Digital Enablement
Where appropriate, integrate digital tools that put data in user’s hands.
Co-Design with the Community
Show how community feedback shaped your solution and how
the community benefits
Challenge Prizes
The top three winning teams will share a total prize pool of €10,000.
Boost your personal
brand and grow your professional network​
Mentoring sessions
from Schneider Electric Experts
Who Can Participate?
This is a global competition open to all students and young entrepreneurs who are passionate about making a difference through innovation in renewable energy.
We invite you to join us in creating sustainable solutions for those who need it most. ​​
Current registered and enrolled as full/part-time students in any undergraduate program or graduate program and aged
eighteen (18) to thirty (30).
Participants must have proficiency in English as the official language
for the competition.
Must participate in teams of up to 4 members. We encourage each team to be gender balanced.
All team members must study in the same country, but they may
attend different educational institutions, and be enrolled
in different courses, and various academic years.
Go Green Challenge Timeline
Ready to make an impact? Register for the Schneider Go Green Student competition today and be a part of the movement towards a cleaner, more sustainable future for all!
1 June - Launch and Registration
Participants must register by submitting their résumés via the designated registration link. Once registration is complete and teams are formed, teams may immediately begin developing their project proposals. Further guidance on team formation and submission requirements will be shared via a follow-up email.
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28 August - Registrations Close & Project Submission Deadline
Registrations close on this date, and no late applications will be accepted. All registered teams must submit their final renewable energy project proposal addressing the identified environmental and social challenges. Submissions will be evaluated against the established eligibility criteria and judging standards.
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1 September - 29 September - Internal Proposal Review
Judges will review all submissions and select the top 10 teams.
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1 October - 29 October - Project Development and Submission
The top 10 teams selected will proceed to develop their idea into a comprehensive business case. Each team will be paired with a Schneider Electric mentor to support them during the project development phase.
2 November - 13 November - Internal Project Review
Judges will review submitted project materials according to the judging criteria and select the top 3 teams, who will be invited to the global virtual finals to pitch their solution.
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16 November - Top Teams Announced
Following the internal project review, the three finalist teams will be officially announced. These top teams will advance to represent their ideas on the global stage at the virtual finals.
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7 December - Global Final
The top 3 teams will get the opportunity to present their solution to a virtual panel of judges, who will identify a global winner!
Your Learning Journey - We are here to support you every step of the way! With our free online courses in technical skills related to the energy transition, you will get the knowledge necessary to create impactful, scalable solutions for a sustainable future. Check out Schneider Electric University.
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