Building on the success of its first Unilever Sustainable Living
Young Entrepreneurs Awards in 2013, Unilever once again invites
young people worldwide to create and invent practical and
innovative solutions to the world’s biggest sustainability
challenges and enter them in this year’s Awards.
Through the awards, which are open to anyone aged 30 or younger,
Unilever is looking for young entrepreneurs who have created
scalable and sustainable products, services or applications that
reduce environmental impacts, improve health and well-being or
enhance livelihoods through changes in practices or behaviors.
The Awards, which run in partnership with the Cambridge
Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and in
collaboration with Ashoka, offer seven young people a total of more
than €200,000 (or approximately $272,000) in financial support and
individually tailored mentoring. The overall winner also receives
the prestigious HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability
Entrepreneur Prize.
Applications must be submitted by 7:00 p.m. (EDT) on August 1,
2014 at www.changemakers.com/sustliving2014. Finalists will be
announced in October 2014. All seven finalists take part in an
online development program and then participate in a two-day
accelerator workshop at Cambridge University, UK in January 2015,
where they will receive expert help and professional guidance to
help them develop their ideas. The Cambridge accelerator workshop
and final judging takes place in January 2015. Shortly following,
the Awards will be hosted online at Ashoka Changemakers, a
community that connects social entrepreneurs around the globe to
share ideas, inspire, and mentor each other.
Last year, more than 500 young entrepreneurs from more than 90
countries entered the Awards. Winning projects ranged from a mobile
data and messaging system that tracks water supply and optimises
use in India, to low-cost chicken-feed made from waste mango seed
in Nigeria; and from water-less toilets in rural Peru to a
work-for-education swap scheme in Nepal, whereby the children of
low-income farm workers receive education in return for their
parents donating their labour to a farming collective.
The overall winner – who won €50,000 (or approximately $68,000)
and the HRH The Prince of Wales Prize – was Gamal Albinsaid, a
twenty-four year-old Indonesian, who addressed two sustainability
challenges with one idea: converting the value in household waste
into health insurance for low income families. This inspiring
initiative is now being turned into a repeatable model in
communities throughout Indonesia.
Commenting on the Awards, Unilever CEO Paul Polman said: “I
believe that youth hold the key to unlocking solutions to many of
the challenges our planet faces and last year’s finalists are proof
of this. Young people will soon represent 50 percent of the
population in developing and emerging countries, but they are 100
percent of the future, so it’s absolutely vital we continue to
enroll them in the task of making sustainable living commonplace
and invest in their ideas. ”
Polly Courtice, LVO, Director of CISL, said: “The first year of
the Unilever awards highlighted the creativity and entrepreneurial
dynamism of young people across the world in tackling critical
sustainability issues. We are delighted to bring the research
insight of the Cambridge community together with our worldwide
network of business leaders, to support these awards in encouraging
the innovation and leadership we so urgently need.”
Please visit the Ashoka Changemakers website at
www.changemakers.com/sustliving2014 to apply, nominate a candidate,
or learn more about the competition.
About Unilever United States, Inc.
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home
and Personal Care products with sales in more than 190 countries.
Working to create a better future every day, we help people feel
good, look good and get more out of life. In the United States, the
portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s,
Breyers, Caress, Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy, Consort For Men,
Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products, Fruttare, Good
Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!, Just for Me!,
Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Magnum, Motions, Nexxus,
Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise, Q-tips, Simple, Slim-Fast, St.
Ives, Suave, TIGI, TONI&GUY Hair Meet Wardrobe, TRESemmé and
Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies.
Our ambition is to double the size of our business, while
reducing our overall environmental footprint (including sourcing,
consumer use and disposal) and increasing our positive social
impact. We are committed to helping more than a billion people take
action to improve their health and well-being, sourcing all our
agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020, and decoupling our
growth from our environmental impact. Supporting our three big
goals, we have defined seven pillars, underpinned by targets
encompassing social, environmental and economic areas. See more on
the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan at
http://www.unileverusa.com/sustainable-living/.
Unilever employs approximately 10,000 people in the United
States – generating nearly $9 billion in sales in 2013. For more
information, visit www.unileverusa.com.
About University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability
Leadership (CISL)
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability
Leadership (CISL) brings together business, government and academia
to find solutions to critical sustainability challenges.
Capitalising on the world-class, multidisciplinary strengths of
the University of Cambridge, CISL deepens leaders’ insight and
understanding through its executive programmes, builds deep,
strategic engagement with leadership companies, and creates
opportunities for collaborative enquiry and action through its
business platforms.
Over 25 years, CISL have developed a leadership network with
more than 5,000 alumni from leading global organisations and an
expert team of Fellows, Senior Associates and staff. HRH The Prince
of Wales is the patron of CISL and has inspired and supported many
of the institute’s initiatives.
www.cisl.cam.ac.uk
About Ashoka Changemakers
Ashoka Changemakers is a community of action that connects
social entrepreneurs around the globe to share ideas, inspire, and
mentor each other. Through its online collaborative competitions
and open-source process, Changemakers.com is one of the world’s
most robust spaces for launching, discussing, and funding ideas to
solve the world’s most pressing social problems. Changemakers
builds on Ashoka's three-decade history and belief that we all have
the ability to be a Changemaker.
www.changemakers.com
MediaUnileverJaime Stein,
201-894-7760MediaRelations.USA@unilever.com
Unilever NV (NYSE:UN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
Unilever NV (NYSE:UN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024
