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In the world there are thousands of people concerned about the current global situation. Many of them have taken on the task of developing projects and initiatives whose objective is to generate systematic change as well as find effective solutions to related conflicts within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the UN.
These stakeholders are known as social entrepreneurs because they seek satisfactory resolutions to various conflicts such as: poverty, discrimination, environmental degradation, among other causes.
To achieve this, they develop a socially-based Chile Mobile Number List business model that helps generate income and promote the development of different communities. And currently, many of these social entrepreneurs have found in the CEMEX-Tec Award call , a platform and opportunity to present these projects.
What is this initiative about?
The CEMEX-TEC Award is an annual recognition granted to all those social entrepreneurs and students who have focused their attention, time and effort on developing high-impact projects that promote sustainable development, and with it, compliance with the SDGs.
This year the call turns 10 years old! And once again it received the registration of projects from all over the world that fit into four categories:
Transforming Communities: aimed at teams of higher education and postgraduate students with proposals for the sustainable transformation of a community in their locality.
Social entrepreneurs: aimed at entrepreneurs with projects that solve social problems and promote systemic change, with the potential to become a social business.
Community Entrepreneurship: focused on recognizing productive projects that have improved the quality of life in communities through sustainable and environmentally friendly businesses.
Collaborative Action: recognizes multisectoral efforts that have generated a relevant social impact.
The CEMEX-TEC Award was created 10 years ago and, since then, it has promoted initiatives and ventures.
CEMEX-TEC Award.
This time has been positioned as a great opportunity to impact and inspire more people and initiatives globally, in addition to creating alliances that help achieve socio-environmental changes that are important today more than ever to promote the development of society.
As in previous years, the call to register projects had a large influx, however, 2020 is a year that stands out from others due to the diversity of the countries and universities from which the initiatives come, the themes and the characteristics of the participants. .
The impact of the call
The scope of the CEMEX-Tec Award has encouraged the registration of projects from 19 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This highlights that entrepreneurship and social innovation have gained greater relevance and is demonstrated in the nearly 1,678 projects that come mostly from Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Spain, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and France.
According to a statement, of the total participants, 51% are women and 49% men with an average age of 32 years. Applications were received from more than 300 universities, including:
Tecnológico de Monterrey.
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Buenos Aires' University.
University of British Columbia, Canada.
MIT.
University of the Andes.
Kings College London.
Complutense University of Madrid.
In these 10 years we have consolidated an important ecosystem of social entrepreneurship. Young people need spaces like these so that their ideas can materialize, and here they will learn to form networks and collaborative alliances that are the engine of social change.
Martha Herrera, Global Director of Responsible Business and Director of the CEMEX-TEC Center for Sustainable Communities.
For Martha Herrera, Global Director of Responsible Business and director of the CEMEX-TEC Center for Sustainable Communities, this recognition and all the work carried out at the CEMEX-Tec Center is part of a joint effort to improve the place where we live.
Winning projects that inspire
While we have the opportunity to learn about those projects that will be winners of this twentieth edition, we want to share with you those that were recognized in previous editions by the CEMEX-Tec Award.
1. Sow Siloam
It is a project that goes beyond improving nutrition, it is an initiative that promotes in the community the interest in learning and sharing agricultural knowledge to maintain gardens and obtain food directly from the land.
Luisa, representative of this project, was the winner in the Community Entrepreneurship category for eradicating poor nutrition in older adults, girls and boys, people with disabilities, women and men through planting.
2. Ahuejote Collective
This initiative focuses on supporting chinampero farmers by regenerating their environment. The project is represented by Colectivo Ahuejote, IRRI México and the Universidad del Medio Ambiente, and a group of multinational students Francesca Verschoor, Raúl Mondragón and Silvia Mejía and their advisor Delfín Milton.
3. “Conservation and Production of Vanilla in the Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz”
The initiative was developed by Enrique López Avilés, an Agronomy student at the Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad Veracruzana, and the biologist Rosa Esteban Santiago, advised by Dr. Pablo Elorza Martínez, all of them collaborators of the Pedro y Elena Foundation. Hernandez.
The purpose of this project is to strengthen and increase the vanilla cultivation that is disappearing from the central mountainous region of Veracruz and collaborate with the family and local economy.
Through this platform and over 10 years we have been able to witness great projects led by social entrepreneurs who focused their efforts and energy on developing initiatives that help change our world and solve the various problems that prevent healthy growth in different areas. Worldwide.
These stakeholders are known as social entrepreneurs because they seek satisfactory resolutions to various conflicts such as: poverty, discrimination, environmental degradation, among other causes.
To achieve this, they develop a socially-based Chile Mobile Number List business model that helps generate income and promote the development of different communities. And currently, many of these social entrepreneurs have found in the CEMEX-Tec Award call , a platform and opportunity to present these projects.
What is this initiative about?
The CEMEX-TEC Award is an annual recognition granted to all those social entrepreneurs and students who have focused their attention, time and effort on developing high-impact projects that promote sustainable development, and with it, compliance with the SDGs.
This year the call turns 10 years old! And once again it received the registration of projects from all over the world that fit into four categories:
Transforming Communities: aimed at teams of higher education and postgraduate students with proposals for the sustainable transformation of a community in their locality.
Social entrepreneurs: aimed at entrepreneurs with projects that solve social problems and promote systemic change, with the potential to become a social business.
Community Entrepreneurship: focused on recognizing productive projects that have improved the quality of life in communities through sustainable and environmentally friendly businesses.
Collaborative Action: recognizes multisectoral efforts that have generated a relevant social impact.
The CEMEX-TEC Award was created 10 years ago and, since then, it has promoted initiatives and ventures.
CEMEX-TEC Award.
This time has been positioned as a great opportunity to impact and inspire more people and initiatives globally, in addition to creating alliances that help achieve socio-environmental changes that are important today more than ever to promote the development of society.
As in previous years, the call to register projects had a large influx, however, 2020 is a year that stands out from others due to the diversity of the countries and universities from which the initiatives come, the themes and the characteristics of the participants. .
The impact of the call
The scope of the CEMEX-Tec Award has encouraged the registration of projects from 19 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This highlights that entrepreneurship and social innovation have gained greater relevance and is demonstrated in the nearly 1,678 projects that come mostly from Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Spain, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and France.
According to a statement, of the total participants, 51% are women and 49% men with an average age of 32 years. Applications were received from more than 300 universities, including:
Tecnológico de Monterrey.
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Buenos Aires' University.
University of British Columbia, Canada.
MIT.
University of the Andes.
Kings College London.
Complutense University of Madrid.
In these 10 years we have consolidated an important ecosystem of social entrepreneurship. Young people need spaces like these so that their ideas can materialize, and here they will learn to form networks and collaborative alliances that are the engine of social change.
Martha Herrera, Global Director of Responsible Business and Director of the CEMEX-TEC Center for Sustainable Communities.
For Martha Herrera, Global Director of Responsible Business and director of the CEMEX-TEC Center for Sustainable Communities, this recognition and all the work carried out at the CEMEX-Tec Center is part of a joint effort to improve the place where we live.
Winning projects that inspire
While we have the opportunity to learn about those projects that will be winners of this twentieth edition, we want to share with you those that were recognized in previous editions by the CEMEX-Tec Award.
1. Sow Siloam
It is a project that goes beyond improving nutrition, it is an initiative that promotes in the community the interest in learning and sharing agricultural knowledge to maintain gardens and obtain food directly from the land.
Luisa, representative of this project, was the winner in the Community Entrepreneurship category for eradicating poor nutrition in older adults, girls and boys, people with disabilities, women and men through planting.
2. Ahuejote Collective
This initiative focuses on supporting chinampero farmers by regenerating their environment. The project is represented by Colectivo Ahuejote, IRRI México and the Universidad del Medio Ambiente, and a group of multinational students Francesca Verschoor, Raúl Mondragón and Silvia Mejía and their advisor Delfín Milton.
3. “Conservation and Production of Vanilla in the Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz”
The initiative was developed by Enrique López Avilés, an Agronomy student at the Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad Veracruzana, and the biologist Rosa Esteban Santiago, advised by Dr. Pablo Elorza Martínez, all of them collaborators of the Pedro y Elena Foundation. Hernandez.
The purpose of this project is to strengthen and increase the vanilla cultivation that is disappearing from the central mountainous region of Veracruz and collaborate with the family and local economy.
Through this platform and over 10 years we have been able to witness great projects led by social entrepreneurs who focused their efforts and energy on developing initiatives that help change our world and solve the various problems that prevent healthy growth in different areas. Worldwide.