WIPO Global 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.

Pioneers Forum

The Pioneers Forum is the flagship event of the Solar Impulse Foundation. Placed under the sign of Climate Solutions, this forum enables members of the Foundation’s ecosystem to leverage this exclusive network, harnessing the potential of efficiency innovations across sectors.

Pioneer Awards

The Pioneer Awards celebrate organizations implementing Efficient Solutions across sectors, honouring their pioneering spirit in advancing ecological sustainability.

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.

Explore

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.

Explore

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.

WIPO Global Awards 2025

Apply now to the #WIPOGlobalAwards: a global recognition for SMEs and startups!

Did you know that both Lactips and Hydraloop, two Efficient Solutions from the Solar Impulse Foundation’s portfolio received the WIPO Global Awards ?