Sponsors and Partners

Academic Partner

• Promote the Clear Skies Challenge 2025 across the institution.

• Nominate deserving students, researchers, faculty, and startups for participation.

• Facilitate internal awareness and orientation sessions on the challenge themes.

• Encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among participants.

• Provide institutional resources and mentorship support to participating teams.

• Act as a liaison between the organizing team and the institution’s participants.

• Assist in smooth communication, coordination, and timely submission of entries.

Industry Partner

• Promote the challenge within the industry ecosystem to encourage participation and visibility.

• Provide technical mentorship, domain expertise statements to participants.

• Offer access to relevant tools, datasets, or platforms for solution development.

• Support prototype validation, testing, or piloting of promising solutions.

• Contribute to the judging, evaluation, and shortlisting process where applicable.

• Explore opportunities for collaboration or adoption of impactful innovations.

• Assist in amplifying the initiative’s impact through networks and media.

Data Partner

• Provide relevant, high-quality datasets for participants to use during the challenge.

• Offer guidance on data usage, interpretation, and ethical considerations.

• Support participants in data preprocessing, integration, and visualization.

• Ensure timely access to data resources for ideation and prototype development.

• Help define data-driven problem statements or use cases.

• Contribute to evaluation by validating data-centric aspects of solutions.

• Assist in capacity-building through workshops or tutorials on data tools.

Knowledge Partner

• Share domain expertise on air pollution, environmental monitoring, and related problem statements

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to participants during ideation and prototyping.

• Contribute to defining problem statements, themes, and evaluation criteria.

• Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions, webinars, or training for participants.

• Assist in reviewing and validating solutions for scientific and technical soundness.

• Support in documenting and disseminating best practices and insights from the challenge.

• Promote the challenge through academic, research, and professional networks.

Ecosystem Partner

• Amplify outreach by promoting the challenge across startup, innovation, and entrepreneurship networks.

• Facilitate connections between participants and potential mentors, investors, and incubators.

• Support participant teams with networking and partnership opportunities.

• Assist in organizing community events, pitch sessions, or demo days.

• Encourage participation from startups, innovators, and ecosystem players.

• Contribute to building visibility and impact through media and ecosystem channels.

• Help identify opportunities for scaling and piloting successful solutions..

Strategic Partner

• Provide strategic direction and advisory support to enhance the challenge’s impact.

• Assist in aligning the challenge with national priorities and policy objectives.

• Facilitate high-level collaborations with government, industry, and international bodies.

• Support in mobilizing resources, sponsorships, and long-term partnerships.

• Help in shaping the roadmap for scaling and implementing winning solutions.

• Contribute to advocacy and awareness at regional, national, and global levels.

• Promote the initiative through influential networks and platforms.

Incubator Partner

• Provide incubation support to promising teams and solutions emerging from the challenge.

• Offer mentorship, business guidance, and technical support during and after the challenge.

• Facilitate access to co-working spaces, labs, and prototyping facilities.

• Assist in connecting teams with investors, grants, and funding opportunities.

• Support in refining business models, go-to-market strategies, and scaling plans.

• Promote successful innovations through incubator networks and events.

• Help monitor and track the progress of incubated teams post-challenge.

Sustainability Partner

• Guide participants on incorporating sustainability principles into their solutions.

• Provide mentorship on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) best practices.

• Help define sustainability-focused evaluation criteria for solutions.

• Support awareness-building on long-term environmental impact among participants.

• Facilitate partnerships for piloting sustainable innovations.

• Promote the challenge through sustainability networks and platforms.

• Assist in documenting and showcasing sustainable outcomes of the challenge.

Supporting Partner

• Assist in promoting the challenge through various communication channels.

• Provide logistical, outreach, or operational support as needed.

• Help facilitate connections between participants and relevant stakeholders.

• Contribute to enhancing visibility and engagement of the initiative.

• Offer assistance in organizing events, webinars, or promotional activities.

• Support in documentation, reporting, or media coverage of the challenge.

• Act as a goodwill ambassador to amplify the impact of the program.

GIA Partner

• Support outreach for participant engagement to help attract more individuals and teams to the challenge.

• Facilitate outreach for new partnerships by connecting with potential collaborators.

• Contribute to the evaluation process through expert review and idea assessment.

• Provide mentorship and capacity building to guide participants during the innovation cycle.

• Promote and enhance visibility of the challenge across networks and platforms.

• Share knowledge and resources like datasets, tools, and best practices, if possible.

• Enable strategic collaboration by co-creating themes and hosting engagement activities.