51Sim is looking for funding to support next year’s Sustainable Innovation Student Competition

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Dear All,
Earlier this month, Beijing-based 51Sim successfully held the “Final
Round” and “Award Ceremony” for its first Sustainable Innovation
Student Competition (SISC), where 36 Chinese university finalists
participated. SISC is a competitive program designed to encourage
students all over the world to develop imaginative proposals for
sustainable solutions to alleviate climate change. It is open to
university students throughout China, generating interest in over 280
cities in China, and 30 different countries. During the CGI Asia
Meeting in Hong Kong in December 2008, where SISC was selected as a
key “commitment to action” by the Clinton Global Initiative Asia,
Former President Clinton said that these initiatives “will bring real,
measurable change to millions of lives in Asia and across the
world” (See the speech here).
The competition was divided into 3 categories: Green Transport, Energy
Efficiency, and Renewable Energy, the winning teams being C-
Fingerprint, Green E and Green 4U respectively. The 12 winning
individuals received substantial awards including RMB 100,000 seed
funding to implement their projects, and travel to “COP15” — the
United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009. In our next
delivery, you will be able to have knowledge of what each of the
winning proposals consist of.
SISC Celebrity Ambassador, Li Bingbing accompanied by former Under
Secretary General UN, Maurice Strong, presented the awards for the
winning teams. The judging panel consisted of Ken Yeung -CEO of TOM
Group Limited-, Gao Yunlong -Deputy Managing Director of Camco
International-, Wu Zhimin -Director of Sales & Marketing of Giti-,
Daniel Foa -51SIM Co-Founder-, and Yuan Jinhong -Climate Change
Officer for the State Forestry Administration. The SISC Final Round
and Award Ceremony will be screened on China Central Television’s
“Green Space” program in January 2010.
51Sim is currently looking for funding to support next year’s SISC.
The competition will be open to students at universities all over
China, so it reaches a huge number of young people - future leaders of
China are our target audience.
We are seeking to identify the best, viable business plans in our
three categories:
- Energy Efficiency
- Green Transport
- Renewable Energy
The reason we have contacted you is to try and identify companies who
would like to partner or sponsor the competition. This could be
attractive for companies for a number of reasons:
- Companies which would like to identify and work with Chinese
entrepreneurs in their fields (the 3 categories).
- Companies which would like to raise their visibility in China via
TV, Internet and press coverage by supporting an initiative aimed at
young, entrepreneurial, 'green', Chinese people.
- Companies that would like to use their CSR budget to support the
goals of the competition.
- Companies that would be specifically interested in working with this
specific segment of society.
- Companies that would benefit from an introduction to their fellow
sponsors and other partners of the competition.
- Companies that would like to forge relationships with Chinese
universities and their best and most motivated students.

We have a great deal of interesting detail and follow up from the
recent finale of the 2009 competition and would very much appreciate
the opportunity to come and present that to you. You would then be in
a good position to identify if this is an opportunity which would be
attractive to your member companies.

We're confident that with the success of this year's competition we
have a great story to tell.

For more information please contact Daphne Richet-Cooper, Project
Manager, Daphne.Ric...@51sim.org
www.51sim.org/en


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Daphne Richet-Cooper 李达英
Project Manager 项目经理
51Give (Microfinance for Our Future)
www.51give.com
+86 150 1068 1783
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