Pioneer Awards 2025

Explorer for sustainability

Bertrand dedicates his life to demonstrate the opportunities lying in sustainable development and to raise interest in profitable solutions to protect the environment.

Pioneering vision

As a pioneer, he understood that fighting climate change with clean and efficient technologies is opening-up new industrial markets and offering a unique and profitable opportunity for economic growth.

Collaborators

The Solar Impulse Foundation has entered in close and impactful collaboration with several international institutions, corporations, states and cities around the world to facilitate the identification, assessment, funding and implementation of efficient solutions.

Supporters

The Solar Impulse Foundation is working with like-minded incubators, accelerators and organizations, creating a qualitative worldwide network to boost the adoption of efficient solutions.

The search-engine for climate action

The Explorer is a one-of-a-kind search engine that showcases profitable climate solutions from all over the world which are part of an ever-growing, curated, and publicly-accessible database.

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Industrial Processes & Consumer Goods

Buildings & Construction

Utilities (Water, Energy, Waste)

Agrifood & Natural Environment

Mobility

A label focused on both environment and profitability

Assessed by independent experts, the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label, serves as a credible marker of quality to decision-makers in business and governments.

Submit your Efficient Solution

For the first time a label assesses the economic profitability of solutions that protect the environment.
Sign up to become a Member of the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions and submit it now!

What is the Experts’ role in evaluating the Solutions?

The Experts are key in the labelling process, using their technical and professional expertise to assess and critique Solutions seeking the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label.

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Challenge events

How to become an Expert?

If you have more than five years technical experience in one of five key sectors, the Expert role may be for you! You will be assigned Solutions fitting your expertise to review and assess.

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Guiding users to implement efficient solutions in cities

This guide looks at the challenges that cities face to become more sustainable, suggesting solutions that help decision makers to harness the economic opportunities of the ecological transition.

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Energy & Power Grid

Construction & buildings

Mobility

Waste

Water & infrascructures

‘Prêt à Voter’ Switzerland
25+ ‘Prêt à Voter’ proposals

Discover the initiative, which takes clean technologies as a starting point to guide the modernisation of the Swiss legal and regulatory framework.

‘Prêt à Voter’ France
50 ‘Prêt à Voter’ legislative proposals

Discover the initiative, which takes clean technologies as a starting point to guide the modernisation of the French legal and regulatory framework.

Innovators

Providing clean and profitable solutions that have the potential to address today’s environmental challenges.

Investors

Looking for clean and profitable investments opportunities.

Adopters

Identify and adopt Solutions to solve your environmental challenges.

Promoters

Boost the adoption of cleantech together with us.

Are you an innovator developing an efficient solution?

Get a neutral and rigorous evaluation of your solution by leading experts in your field and gain visibility as part of the Solutions Explorer.

Pioneer Awards 2025

The Awards honour groundbreaking cleantech adoption and outstanding innovation in the 5 following sectors:

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Go check the Pioneer Awards website to learn more about this 3rd edition. Should you have any questions, please contact us at the following address: olivia.mahaux@solarimpulse.com.