OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 (up to $1 Million in Funding) | APPLY NOW

The OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 seeks to identify innovative new design solutions that serve the function of today’s single-use plastic retail bag, delivering ease and convenience for consumers while striving to reduce the negative impact it has on the environment. To this end, applications for the OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 are now open and are being received and reviewed for selection until the deadline date scheduled for the 4th of September, 2020.

OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 (up to $1 Million in Funding) | APPLY NOW

About the OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020

The new innovative solutions that are successful should strive to be compatible in multiple retail environments, deliver the ease and convenience of the single-use plastic bag, and reduce or eliminate the impact on the environment. These Solutions will address the packaging that helps customers transport products from point of sale to their final destination with ease and convenience. The Challenge is not necessarily looking for solutions to address inter-region shipping or long-distance delivery.

Prizes and Benefits

The OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 aims to identify and support innovation or solutions that address today’s single-use plastic retail bag as it seeks for a better solution that will serve it’s the purpose as well as reduce or eliminate the negative environmental impact from the sourcing stage to the end of use stage. OpenIDEO provides benefits for the selected solutions.

  • Winning Solutions for the OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 are eligible to receive a portion of $1 million in funding
  • The selected innovations are eligible to take part in Beyond the Bag Accelerator and access potential piloting opportunities.

Eligibility Criteria

To be considered for selection for the OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020, applicants are required to meet certain eligibility criteria. These eligibility criteria and requirements are as follows:

  • Individuals, teams of individuals, and legal entities from all countries and territories are encouraged to apply and welcome to participate in OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge
  • Solutions must transport goods from retailer to final destination of the customer while replacing the single-use plastic retail bag with a better or improved solution
  • Solutions or innovations must be Reusable Models, Bagless Solutions, Innovative Materials
  • Solutions may explore point of sale checkout, in-store pickup, local delivery from retailer or other key moments along the “retailer to destination” journey.

Selection Criteria

Submissions of the solutions for the OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge will be evaluated according to the following selection criteria:

  1. People: The solution or innovation aims to maintain the ease, efficiency, and effectiveness of the single-use plastic bag for customers and retail employees alike.
  2. Business: solution or innovation looks to create realistic long-term value for retailers in a broad variety of environments in the North American market.
  3. Planet: The solution or innovation seeks to operate within a circular system to reduce or eliminate environmental and social hazards in its sourcing, production, useful life, and end of life.

Application

Applicants who are interested and eligible to participate in the OpenIDEO Beyond the Bag Challenge 2020 are encouraged to visit the official online platform via this link to apply and are welcome to submit solutions to the Beyond the Bag Challenge through one of three submission channels (submit publicly, submit non-publicly or advanced solution)

Application Deadline

September 4, 2020.

For more details, visit this link.

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