The idea is to leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence and Swarm Robotics in emergency response management. We use this to optimise the collaborative operation of robots along with humans. The aim is to slowly shift from a ‘Human led emergency response' effort into a ‘Human-monitored machine-led emergency response’ effort. AI powered autonomous swarm UAV’s (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are capable of assessing damage, locating the victims and delivering aid. This system enables the faster mapping of disaster stricken areas to identify areas of damage, inspect infrastructure for delivery of supplies and develop strategies to effectively and safely battle/handle the scenario. We are building a suite of products that includes: - Two classes of aerial vehicles, - An Emergency Response Intelligence and - A Swarm controller. The two aerial vehicles under development fall into classes: Small-UAV class (SUAVs, Maximum takeoff weight of 3-4Kgs) and Micro-UAV class (MAVs, Maximum takeoff weight of 2Kgs). The SUAVs are capable of carrying heavy sensors, providing detailed inferences. On the other hand, MAVs provide the flexibility of maneuvering difficult to reach spaces in a cluttered environment. The Emergency Response Intelligence (ERI) is a cognitive AI model that provides prioritized actions, entry/exits for first responders and a strategic action plan that minimizes damage and maximizes efficiency. The swarm controller or STADO, is a scalable intelligent swarm controller that divides the operation at hand among its agents (the fleet of SUAV’s and MAV’s). It performs crucial tasks like path planning, map fusion and scene recreation. ERI and STADO operate and make decisions based on the data collected by the aerial agents. This suite in turn leads to reaching our goal of Human-Monitored Machine-Led approach of tackling a Search and Rescue Scenario.

AVEM Systems

India

Nadeem Mohammed Shajahan

The current advancements in aviation technology have allowed for a wide range of new uses for drones. This can be seen in our fire extinguisher drone as a solution to instantly mitigate sudden outdoor fires. The use of a fire extinguishing drone allows for a fire to be mitigated without putting firefighters at risk while improving their fire extinguishing capability. The Aeroknite drone deploys fire extinguishing balls from a low altitude when a fire is detected. The fire extinguishing ball releases Styrofoam powder when in contact with fire, instantly extinguishing it. The UAV is built to carry 6 fire extinguishing balls and more through an automatic reload system. The research showed a swarm of fixed-wing fire extinguishing drones will prove more effective for wildfires. This is mainly due to the faster reload time of the extinguishing payload. The upwash from a large fire is used to keep the UAV at a safe distance from the fire as it approaches to deploy the payload. A multi-copter configuration will be used when drop precision is required. The multi-copter configuration is also more suited for on-site deployment by first responders when a fire is reported. Aerial surveillance of an affected area using the onboard camera and fire direction prediction provides added information for fire services. This would act as a key safety infrastructure in areas prone to outdoor fire such as Factories. A competitive advantage not currently seen in the market involves using readily available Hi-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning to predict the location of wildfires before they occur. The safety-critical nature of flight systems requires a need of an avionics system with added redundancies. This presents itself in the design of the safe drop mechanism, seeing as the fire extinguisher balls are being dropped from mid-altitude. The drone uses its onboard camera for fire detection and an infrared sensor confirms fire temperature readings before a payload can be deployed. A major hurdle to the use of UAVs for wider applications is the limited flight time. The use of several wireless charging stations along a flight path will result in drones that can fly a longer range. The implications of longer UAV flight times stretch beyond getting a longer range, this will also allow for constant surveillance of areas prone to fire so the drone would not have to be newly launched when a fire is reported

Aeroknite

United Kingdom

Yusuff Adeniyi Yusuff

CCI is an international organization that aims to improve maternal, newborn, and child health by designing sustainable community health programs and pioneering new frameworks of evidence-based global health work. We envision creating an initiative that takes on a unique approach to healthcare education and resource mobilization in Uganda—one that can be owned and taken up by the communities for long-term sustainability. Our main scope of action is two-fold. The first is to design and implement community-based education programs to sensitize expecting families on essential topics of maternal and child health (MCH). CCI created an African context-appropriate curriculum in MCH and trained all health volunteers in Bugembe, Uganda to sensitize their communities on topics surrounding pregnancy and childbirth. What’s unique about our program is that it’s grounded on community-driven demands. Instead of giving out unsustainable monetary incentives like all other nonprofits, we looked into what the community actually wants and, for the first time in Uganda, established a separate office just for the village health volunteers in the corner of CCI’s office. This was our first step in making an initiative that is genuinely owned by the community. As a result, our trainers from all corners of the town report to ‘their office’ and strategically manage what they do best—serving their communities. Also, village people are already actively collaborating with us and seeking our support, even when they’re not given incentives for it, which is very unconventional for most traditional, existing nonprofits. The other half of CCI is our research wing. We believe that if creating successful interventions are the building blocks, getting sound evidence around our work is the mold that will keep the structure together. We prioritize data-driven insight and evidence-based approaches and conduct efficacy studies for our interventions to identify drivers of success (or failure).

Communities for Childbirth International

United States

Seungwon Lee

The solution harnesses the curing property of plastic by cross-linking its polymer chains with other materials to transform plastic wastes into viable commercial products, notably pavement blocks, the first of its kind in Nigeria. With 10 plastic bottles to make a brick, it has the potential to reclaim thousands of plastic wastes overnight while also solving some critical infrastructural demands, especially in low-income areas.

Converting plastic waste to pavement block

Nigeria

Chisom Uzoechina

I’m a founder and editor of DOXA - an independent media for Russian youth. We’re working on a project of a VPN service available for practical and everyday use among contemporary Russians. The project is aimed to give Russian citizens who are facing massive censorship on behalf of the state an opportunity to have access to independent information and alternative points of view on current affairs. The service should be free of use for users inside Russia, as due to financial sanctions on the Russian banking sphere, most people inside Russia can’t pay for international VPN services. DOXA’s VPN service will also include a news aggregator where publications of leading Russian and international media and bloggers would be promoted to the users of the VPN service. Currently, many non-politicized Russians consume daily news from state or state-controlled websites which are spread through state-controlled aggregators (such as Yandex News). We plan to include the aggregator in the VPN service in order to give Russian independent media more traffic in the situation of full censorship inside Russia. The service should be free of charge for users inside Russia, and on a paid basis for users outside. Outside users will also have an opportunity to subscribe for a regular donation to the service in order to support its work in Russia.

DOXA

Russia

Armen Aramian

Beta Blocker is a start-up company founded by four young entrepreneurs from Ethiopia. We produce different products using locally sourced crops and pulses to create nutritious food for children and mothers who are affected by nutrition deficits. Our products are highly affordable and ready to use and provide nutrients that are capable of alleviating nutrition deficits. Our products include fava based crackers and barley based biscuits. All of them are entitled to provide people with the macro and micro nutrient packed diet important in coordinating bodily functions and all are produced from locally sourced crops. They all aim to serve different target groups from the society ranging from children up to pregnant and lactating mothers considering their daily nutritional requirements. We also provide consulting and teaching services for different organizations about nutrition as well as food preparation and storing habits in an effort to maximize the nutritional intake of households.

Fabarley Project ( Beta Blockers PLC)

Ethiopia

Kirubel Engidawork Kitaw

Indiscriminate waste disposal has been a norm in Nigeria. Howlshe, a district in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, where I reside, is known for indiscriminate dumping of waste. These dumping sites have become breeding grounds for many endemic protozoan and bacterial diseases of Humans e.g.Malaria and Cholera. Bill Gates in his recent research on the 6thSeptember, 2022, titled “why children die”, stated clearly that “3.1 million people-nearly all of them children- died of diarrhea, often because they had drunk contaminated water”. Also people use these dumping grounds as toilets. In the process they can pick or drop infectious agents, which eventually drains into the nearest water body and the cycle continues. Gates, stated that 82% of children mortality is caused by diseases, such as diarrhea and malaria, and health problems that their mothers experienced- and exacerbated by other risk factors including malnutrition. Having said this, it is encouraging to know that all this is preventable. From the Gates Foundation research, it was discovered that child death has been mitigated as interventions are made. In two decades, the death toll from these diseases has dropped by 58% due to Government interventions in the form of large-scale sanitation programs which between 2010-2020 prevented more than 200 000 deaths caused by Cholera. However, my concern is why rely on malaria prevention when it can be eradicated? Why settle for insecticide-treated bed nets when the breeding sites can be eliminated? Establishing a good waste disposal/ recycling system, and providing adequate wastes disposal bins, will go a long way in eliminating these breeding sites. This waste collecting bin will be placed in every household and cleared by professionals, twice in a week and transported to the recycling system or incinerator for proper processing.

HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING, A STRATEGY TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN HOWLSHE, JOS.

Nigeria

KPASHAM LUIMOMMEI ZETHAN

Healing Heroes is a veteran lifestyle consulting firm that offers an all-encompassing 21-day program to address the needs of our heroes.

Healing Heroes

United States

Jacquelyn Grace

Social cooperative Humana Nova is a nonprofit eco-social enterprise that deals with the work integration of people with disabilities and marginalized groups through the textile waste management model and the production of innovative products from recycled and ecological materials. We collect textiles in cooperation with utility companies and through donations from citizens. Until today we collected over 3,000 tons of textile (over 640 tons last year) and prevented them from ending up in landfills. Through our processes, we add a new value to old collected textiles. Preserved clothes we sell in our second-hand shop, or we use textiles for sewing recycled products (bags, slippers backpacks, aprons, coats). Cotton is separated and cut into industrial rags, and the remaining textile is processed in cooperation with Regeneracija from Zabok into the final product: felt. Two years ago we established a felt packaging process in our center and created job opportunities for new employees. Humana Nova has a well-rounded model of textile waste management, and its operations contribute to the achievement of ecological and social goals of sustainable development. The problem begins when textiles which arrive at the sorting center are wet or contain impurities such as leather, shoes, feathers, and similar materials that are not suitable for making felt and are also unusable for Humana Nova. Therefore, we set out to find a solution that would also be innovative, sustainable, and beneficial for the environment and the community. We found a solution in the pyrolysis process of textile waste, the combustion of which produces secondary gas. This is or new pilt project and it passed all tests. By establishing this process, our contribution to the preservation of the environment arises, creates new job opportunities and by producing gas, we create even more added value.

Humana Nova

Croatia

Filip Peras

In emergency settings, developmental disability support is often seen as a secondary need, while basic needs like food, shelter and emergency medical care are centered. However, for individuals with developmental disabilities and their caregivers, stigma, a lack of resources and specific disability-related needs can prevent these individuals and their families from accessing essential support services in emergency settings, ranging from food and water to medical care to education. To address this, Include2020 is a mobile application with offline-accessible content that provides culturally-relevant, on-demand support to caregivers of individuals with developmental disabilities in refugee and emergency contexts. The application is being built with content to help caregivers teach their children foundational skills and skills for independence, as well as inclusive education strategies to bridge educational gaps in emergency contexts where children's education is either disrupted or children are entirely excluded from school. Caregiver mental health also needs to be considered in these (often traumatic) contexts to ensure caregivers are in a position to support their loved onces with disabilities so the application includes mental health support content and peer networks for caregivers to share experiences and support one another. These services will decrease caregiver stress, help children achieve developmental and academic outcomes, improve the ability of families of those with developmental disabilities to access essential resources in emergency contexts, and provided needed support to these families in both temporary and protracted emergency contexts in their native languages and with cultural realities in mind.

Include2020/A Global Voice for Autism

United States

Melissa Diamond

I am striving to start a manstrual Relief campaign for the flood ravaged victims in different parts of Pakistan. In these dire situations, women need our immediate response. They are passing through a hard time where they can not have proper access to manstrual hygiene. In this campaign we would provide the flood victim women with manstrual supplies. Manstrual hygiene is the the most prevalent problem but the most neglected one at the same time. The reason is that various taboos are associated with "periods." Women are in dire situations of need. It is our collective responsibility to help them. Thanks

Manstrual Relief for Flood Victims

Pakistan

Atta Ullah Khan

Martynka is a female name used both in Ukraine and Poland. It comes from the Roman god of war, Mars. This name suits the main idea behind our organisation: to protect people displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Martynka has been living in Poland for a long time, and she uses her experience to support refugees. To receive help from Martynka, a refugee simply needs to text her on Telegram. Martynka is a female-lead Ukrainian grassroots organisation based in Poland. We support Ukrainian evacuees by: 1) preventing human trafficking, 2) helping victims of sexualised violence obtain legal and psychological support, as well as safe accommodation, 3) providing access to and information on safe abortions and emergency contraception in a country that bans most of abortions [1] and ranks lowest in the whole Europe when it comes to accessibility of contraception [2], 4) providing information on sexual health and rights as well as refugee safety. Martynka offers in person assistance, such as providing safe accommodation in our shelter for refugee victims of sexualised violence, or helping evacuees address police or other local authorities. But most of the people who turned to Martynka received help online, as we have a Telegram chat bot where a network of volunteers answer questions and support evacuees 24/7. Martynka is also an educational project: based on six months of operations, we have identified topics where education and information is lacking and launched a campaign about sexual health, reproductive rights and refugee safety in Poland. Survivors-based approach is a core value at Martynka. This means that we listen carefully to the needs of Ukrainian evacuees and take on new issues as they emerge. [1] Only about 0,5% of all abortions in Poland are performed legally, according to Federa; [2] Contraception Atlas 2020, 2021.

Martynka

Ukraine

Nastya Podorozhnya

Music For The Future, a social project charged with the superpower of music started on March 8th, one week after the Russian invasion in Ukraine started. Since the project started, we helped 142 musicians and their families, organising over 700 hours of rehearsals, 32 concerts, as well as several masterclasses with renowned professional musicians. The expenses during the first five months were 480.000,00€, which we gathered with donations from all over the world. In times of crisis, many professional musicians are not able to continue their careers and end up working “other” jobs. We want to create an environment in which professional musicians can pursue their careers, enhance their craft, earn their own income and have a work-life balance, a routine, that can give them some distraction from the crisis at home: The "Music For The Future Chamber Orchestra - Providing Residency for Those in Need", an annual project that evacuates professional musicians who are living in a country, anywhere in the world where crisis is occurring, and brings them to Ljubljana, Slovenia, giving them a one-year residency. This residency provides musicians with humanitarian aid, accommodations, social security, education and helps them develop their career paths in a sheltered environment. Within the framework of the European Career Center for Artists, Triple Bridge, we will provide them with capacity building programmes, masterclasses, career enhancing workshops and vocational training programmes that are taught by internationally renowned professionals. Musicians will receive a range of tools and skills to advance their professional career and enrich their personal growth. On these platforms where the exchange of experience, knowledge, and expertise take place, we encourage everyone to stay curious and never stop learning. The Career Center also provides all musicians a solid self-management foundation for them to manage their own careers, even when their chapter with the Music For The Future ends.

Music For The Future

Germany

Juliana Gräfin Széchenyi-Smythe

Cosmos for Humanity is a non-profit NGO based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Our aim is to raise awareness of space pollution and to promote a more sustainable development of space activities. Humanity is today totally dependent on its access to space for many things that most people are unfortunately unaware of. If we lose this access because of space debris and Kessler’ syndrome, we will lose useful tools to monitor climate change, pollution in the ocean or in the forest, to reduce water consumption in agriculture, to monitor the evolution of biodiversity, to warn us of natural disasters, etc. However, the geopolitical context does not allow states to reach a consensus on a binding legal regime for the preservation of Earth orbits. Nor is there any economic incentive for the space industry to remove waste from orbit. This means that private and public resources devoted to space debris management are currently largely insufficient, particularly because the problem of space pollution and its long-term consequences are not sufficiently understood by stakeholders. Faced with the double failure of the market and the public authorities, our idea is to propose a financing scheme by introducing two new space actors, citizens and non-space companies, and by creating a large community committed to preserving access to space for Humanity: the Cosmos Rangers. To do this, with the support of the French Space Agency, we are building the concept of the "Outer Space Footprint" (OSF) to assess how the space industry is polluting Outer space, but also to quantify the responsibility of all the economic actors in it. In this way, we want to show that we, the citizens, the companies, are already space actors because we are all indirect polluters cause of all the satellite data we depend on. And that we therefore have a duty to participate in the maintenance of the orbits. At the same time, we are building an ESG label to fund and promote the sustainable development of space activities in our daily lives. Reviewed and certified by citizens, independently thanks to our own blockchain, we aim that way to give a tool to the people to protect their own interests in space, but also to create incentives to non-space companies to fund space debris removal operations and put pressure on the space industry to adopt sustainable behavior in Outer space.

NGO Cosmos for Humanity

Switzerland

Claire ELSS

Nepanikař is a non-profit organization that has been operating in the Czech Republic since 2020. Even before the organization was founded, the Nepanikař application was created, the first Czech application to support people with mental illness. It was actively used by the Czech population immediately after its publication. During further operation, we translated the application into the current 11 languages. We try to make help available in the native language for everyone. During the covid pandemic, we responded to the increase in psychological problems in the population by launching chat and mail counseling centers for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The consultation is completely free, just like the mobile application. Our activity was further complemented by a help map - a complete list of contacts for psychological and psychiatric help in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, workshops for primary, secondary and higher schools, pedagogues as well as companies. And we engage in educational activities on social networks.

Nepanikař (Don't panic)

Czech Republic

Veronika Kamenská

Ollas Sostenibles builds biodigesters and community gardens in peripherical and low-income social sectors of Lima-Perú to guarantee food security in the face of climate emergencies and supply chain disruptions that impact food, water, and energy security. We work together with communal kitchens (ollas comunes) aiming to build self-sufficient and resilient communities, promote the use of renewable energies and fight the consequences of the climate crisis for frontline underrepresented sectors. Through our projects, we implement a dynamic system in which we can take advantage of organic waste from the communal kitchens we work with to generate biofuel and replace the use of firewood. In addition, the biodigester system allows the supply of a liquid fertilizer called biol and its sale guarantees the self-sufficiency of inputs and ingredients to maintain the communal kitchen. As a result of this system, food self-sufficiency is presented not only as a solution for the food emergency but also as an opportunity for economic growth for the communities and as an option for a replicable working model for rapidly growing cities.

Ollas Sostenibles

Peru

Sofia Luna Quispe

Across Pakistan, extreme flooding has killed 1,300 people since June and displaced more than half a million.Though the nation’s disaster management agency posted flood warnings on its website, many survivors say the news didn’t reach them in time due to limited technology access. Thousands of villagers are stuck inland surrounded by lakes of water that have formed around them. When we reached Interior Sindh, an area inhabited by large minority populations, farmers and nomadic tribes– the help and support provided was far from what was needed. We had to reach villagers by boat to deliver 4,000 food staple bags, tents and mosquito nets. The second phase of our disaster relief campaign entails rebuilding communities. Our goal will be to identify those most severely affected and most vulnerable. The initial goal will be to build 22 disaster ready and sustainable home models for these villagers. These homes will be built as 1 unit and 2 unit homes. For families living in a multi generational setting we can save thousands of dollars by building a unit that can house them all while still giving them the space they need for their nuclear family. Features of disaster proof homes: 1) Homes will be rebuilt with materials that are cost-effective and easy to install. The foundations of the new homes will be constructed with cement that is proven to be durable during natural disasters and extreme weather events. 2) Iron frames will be used for walls and roofs to ensure durable infrastructure and can be used to rebuild the roofs if damaged. 3) Homes will be built 5 feet above ground to resist damage during regular rainfalls. 4) All will be equipped with a solar power panel to ensure home owners have energy independent access to fans and lighting.

Pakistan 2022 Monsoon Floods Campaign

United States

Reema Shailesh Patel

UNHCR’s Guidelines for Educational Assistance to Refugees states that education for peace, cooperation, conflict resolution and reconciliation are all prerequisites for reconstruction, whose promotion can avoid repetition of conflict by a new generation. This principle defines Peace Authors as it aims to create durable peace in Ukraine and in other displacement contexts. My project, Peace Authors, aims to address the psychosocial needs of Ukrainian refugee youth (13-17) by providing programming focused on building creative writing, peacebuilding, and communication skills and creating a space for self-realization and reflection. Developed in tandem with Dignity Space: the Ukrainian Centre for Non-Violent Communication and Reconciliation, Peace Authors aims to support the next generation of Ukrainians in becoming ambassadors of peace and understanding while meeting the need for trauma-informed programming for refugee youth. The hope is that graduated “Peace Authors” will go on to use their developed writing, communication, and facilitation skills to advocate for refugees and build greater understanding with host communities, making relocation more sustainable and positive. In addition, Peace Authors can return to their home countries and continue to serve as examples of refugee leaders and writers empowered to contribute to the future of their country. The program will also provide a much-needed space to heal and process the trauma of displacement through an artistic project with a community of peers, as refugee youth are chronically lacking accessible psychosocial resources. The hope is to make the Peace Authors curriculum redeployable in displacement emergencies beyond the Ukrainian context and provide psychosocial support to refugee youth from a variety of backgrounds.

Peace Authors

United States

Elena Sapelyuk

The Streetlawyer Association (SLA) has been providing low-threshold, pro bono legal aid for homeless people and people living in poverty every Friday for 12 years. The location is Rákóczi Square, one of the busiest and most accessible public premises of Budapest. SLA also addresses injustices in relation to housing and poverty on a systemic level. They try to make systemic changes happen by exposing the anomalies of the legal system. The Association seeks to help its target group by two ways: with direct legal action in individual case management (i.e. writing submissions and pleadings, personal legal counsel) and also with contacting the democratic institutions ensuring rule of law. With persistent advocacy, lobbying activity, training and research work, SLA seeks to help its clients individually but also hopes to change the Hungarian legal system for the better.

Streetlawyer Association - Judicial Enforcement Project

Hungary

Kerese Virág

The BloodDrive Network initiative is aimed at reducing mortality statistics in Nigeria, of critical care patients due to blood loss and shortage complicated by an insufficient supply and unavailability of blood for transfusion for these kinds of patients. We achieve this through consistent public sensitization programmes, advocacies and awareness about voluntary blood donation and its importance, voluntary donor education, youth engagement, mobilization and participation in regular, voluntary blood donation exercises/blood drive outreaches. We target young people between 18-35 years starting from higher institutions of learning, where we orientate them on the concept of regular, voluntary blood donation as a corporate social responsibility; their role to play in championing the cause and being actively involved; the health benefits to themselves as donors and as well to critical care patients who need blood; correcting the myths and wrong social, cultural and religious biases about Blood donation; and enlightenment on the overall impact on health outcomes and the Nigerian health care system. The advocacies and sensitization programmes ensure social change and positive action of the youth towards regular, voluntary blood donation, while the blood drive outreaches provide them the opportunity to donate blood as well as connect them to blood bank service facilities within their locality, where they can constantly go to donate blood within within every 3 months interval. This is in order to achieve at least a 40% mortality rate decline by 2030, helping to fulfil UN SDG goal 3: Good health and well-being. We intend to scale up using digital technologies that would seamlessly connect voluntary donors to blood bank service facilities and hospitals on specific emergency blood donor requests for specific blood types; that will enable digitalised blood donation procedures while in the comfort of donors' homes as well as offer mobile blood bank service collection and delivery systems.

The BloodDrive Network Foundation

Nigeria

Chidinma Peace Okoro