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These are projects that respond to the strategic axes of the Cepsa Foundation, Social Innovation, and contribute to and contribute to enhancing its role as an agent of social transformation and generator of future opportunities.
The competition jury has valued the contribution to promoting a fair ecological transition with a positive impact on people, and the 120,000 euros with which the Foundation has endowed it will be distributed among the three.
This first call has received 143 applications from all over Spain, with 31 provinces represented, and from different types of entities such as startups, SMEs, foundations, associations and cooperatives. The 10 finalist entities presented their project for three minutes and in pitch format, after which the jury deliberated together.
The jury of the contest was made up of members of the Advisory Council of Fundación Cepsa and the director of Technology, Projects and Services of Cepsa, José Manuel Martínez. The trophies and a prize of 40,000 euros were awarded to each winner.
The winning projects cover different areas of action, plastic pollution, water purification and energy advice for vulnerable homes.
During the last phase of its participation in the Future for all Awards, Fundación Cepsa will offer the winning entities mentoring sessions as accompaniment, with the support of experts, depending on their needs to help them continue scaling the impact of their project.
At the awards ceremony, Maarten Wetselaar, president of Fundación Cepsa, took the floor and highlighted that: “At the Fundación Cepsa we are focused on responding to the challenges of the ecological transition so that it is balanced and inclusive, creating opportunities and leaving no one behind. «These awards, he added. They are born with that purpose and both the winning projects and the finalists demonstrate their commitment to the improvement of society from areas such as education, environmental sustainability, social inclusion and technological innovation. They are an example that, with determination, creativity and collaboration, we can be agents of change and build a more sustainable world.
For his part, José Moisés Martín Carretero, director of the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI), highlighted: «Entrepreneurship not only generates a necessary social and economic impact due to its ability to develop new paths and new models. In the current context, especially, its main value is its transformative capacity, to provoke changes that improve and multiply the positive impact that innovation, of all profiles, deploys in society, in the well-being of citizens and in the consolidation of an active and coordinated ecosystem of society, consolidated and that matrix multiplies the country’s capabilities to project itself into the future with more and better guarantees and conditions. For the director of the CDTI «Technological innovation and entrepreneurship, walking hand in hand, are the formula for the best possible future. Responsible initiatives that integrate business projects committed to a necessary ecological transition and with values, make people’s lives better through projects whose objectives are to help advance societies towards a sustainable model, respectful of the environment that welcomes us and that rely on technology to provide value are essential.