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Wege Prize inspires college /university students around the world to collaborate across boundaries and redesign the way economies work.

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🥁Drumroll please...meet the 2025 Wege Prize finalists! After 7 long months of developing and refining their ideas, these five teams have made it to Phase 4: Agpress, Dry Fresh Solution, Eco Nasi, Envirovex, and Rethread Africa. Learn more about them at wegeprize.org

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The Innovating for Asia’s Demographic Future Challenge is open for submissions! We're calling for solutions for the Asian markets that enhance multigenerational financial resilience, healthy ageing, and fulfilment across longer lifespans. Submit here: ow.ly/5wm950Volp0

The Innovating for Asia’s Demographic Future Challenge is open for submissions! 

We're calling for solutions for the Asian markets that enhance multigenerational financial resilience, healthy ageing, and fulfilment across longer lifespans. Submit here: ow.ly/5wm950Volp0
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Taking a trip down memory lane this #ThrowbackThursday to last year's Wege Prize Awards—can you believe it's been almost a year already?! 🎉 Register to this year's event at bit.ly/2025WegePrizeA…

Taking a trip down memory lane this #ThrowbackThursday to last year's Wege Prize Awards—can you believe it's been almost a year already?! 🎉 Register to this year's event at bit.ly/2025WegePrizeA…
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We're no strangers to teams contributing to circularity in fashion and textiles here at Wege Prize (shout out to @banofileather, Rethread Africa, and Eco Nasi). So, it's exciting to see this year's #ZeroWasteDay calls for a shift towards circular fashion. un.org/en/observances…

We're no strangers to teams contributing to circularity in fashion and textiles here at Wege Prize (shout out to @banofileather, <a href="/rethreadafrica/">Rethread Africa</a>, and Eco Nasi). So, it's exciting to see this year's #ZeroWasteDay calls for a shift towards circular fashion. un.org/en/observances…
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The Annual Wege Speaker Series returns Thursday, April 24 at 4pm ET. Hear from Dr. Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forest Ecology and author of Finding the Mother Tree, a book describing her research on forests as deeply interconnected communities. Register: wegespeaker2025.eventbrite.com

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Get ready for this year by listening to 2024 finalists, Gabrino, Mabano, Yansi, and Abdul talk about their experience, as well as insights from the judge, Txell Martin i Pardo (who you'll see again this year!). Watch the 2024 Post Awards Interviews at youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Get ready for this year by listening to 2024 finalists, Gabrino, Mabano, Yansi, and Abdul talk about their experience, as well as insights from the judge, Txell Martin i Pardo (who you'll see again this year!). Watch the 2024 Post Awards Interviews at youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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📣 University of Cape Coast (UCC) students! The #CRFAS Call for Proposals is OPEN! Passionate about #ClimateResearch in Africa? Apply for funding & mentorship in areas like #CircularEconomy, #WASH, #AirPollution & more. Deadline: May 11 Apply: bit.ly/crfas_call4pro… #AYCF #YouthForClimate

📣 <a href="/UCCGH_Official/">University of Cape Coast (UCC)</a> students! The #CRFAS Call for Proposals is OPEN!
Passionate about #ClimateResearch in Africa? Apply for funding &amp; mentorship in areas like #CircularEconomy, #WASH, #AirPollution &amp; more.

Deadline: May 11
Apply: bit.ly/crfas_call4pro…

#AYCF #YouthForClimate
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Climate creativity is about collaboration. It's about uniting with communities, governments, and businesses, to tackle the world's greatest challenge: regenerating the place we all call home in the next five years.

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Taken from our 2024 Post-Awards interviews, Senene Farm team member, Abdul, reminds us to keep on innovating, seek out support, and magnify your visibility. You'll get there! Wege Prize is here to assist you in this journey. 🙌💚 #WednesdayWisdom

Taken from our 2024 Post-Awards interviews, Senene Farm team member, Abdul, reminds us to keep on innovating, seek out support, and magnify your visibility. You'll get there! Wege Prize is here to assist you in this journey. 🙌💚

#WednesdayWisdom
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We're almost a month away from the 2025 Wege Prize Awards! 🤯 To celebrate, this week we'll be featuring one finalist team a day: Agpress is integrating mealworm farming with maize production creating protein-enriched flour while repurposing agricultural waste into compost.

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Today, meet finalist team Dry Fresh Solution. From various schools in Rwanda, this team is developing a solar-powered dehydrator, extending the shelf life of produce, reducing post-harvest losses, and repurposing fruit peels as nutritious pig feed. 👏 bit.ly/2025WegePrizeA…

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Next, meet Eco Nasi. A team based in Kenya who is developing pineapple pulp waste into an alternative leather material through an innovative bacterial and enzymatic process, all while empowering communities with new economic opportunities. 🍍🙌

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Today, meet team Envirovex. With students at universities in England, Spain, and the U.S., Envirovex is implementing bio-based wastewater treatment technologies to tackle the sources of antibiotic release from agriculture, livestock, pharmaceutical, and wastewater discharge. 🦠💚

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Finally, meet Rethread Africa of Kenya. Formerly 2024 semifinalists, this team is replacing traditional plastic synthetic fabrics with PHA biopolymers from organic waste that fully biodegrades in a natural environment without the need for industrial composting. Rethread Africa

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Celebrating the Earth and our amazing participants who dedicate their time and passions to make every day Earth Day. Visit earthday.org to see how you can celebrate the Earth today!

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The 2025 Cycle of the WFF Youth Initiative is officially live! ✨ 🌎Young people are transforming agrifood systems through innovation, education, culture, policy & action. This year’s theme: 🤝 Hand in Hand for better foods and a better future. Join us: 10–17 Oct 2025!

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Cross-discipline collaboration is key to Wege Prize success! Read these words and more in our finalists press release, live now on wegeprize.org/news, and meet the teams on May 16. #WednesdayWisdom

Cross-discipline collaboration is key to Wege Prize success! Read these words and more in our finalists press release, live now on wegeprize.org/news, and meet the teams on May 16.
#WednesdayWisdom
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We're just two weeks away from the 2025 Wege Prize Awards! This time on Friday, May 16th, we'll be wrapping up the finalist presentations. Will you be watching? bit.ly/2025WegePrizeA…