Sininen pallo (The Blue Globe) is an award that celebrates the builders of hope and a more sustainable future. The prize is awarded by the Nessling Foundation, Tiina and Antti Herlin foundation and the scholarly society Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland SLS.
The Sininen Pallo (Blue Globe) award is a recognition for groundbreaking, scalable technology or scientific research that helps humankind brave the crisis. The 100 000 euro award can be given to any Finnish organization, company, NGO, research group or private citizen regardless of the language of their work who create scalable solutions for solving the ecological crisis currently threatening us all.
Nominees for the award are shortlisted by a board of experts continuously monitoring the field. The award is decided by a jury made up of representatives of the foundations that fund it. Sininen pallo is awarded annually and was first awarded in 2021.
Read more about the award here.
Winners of the Sininen pallo 2023 are the founders of Kamupak, Iida Miettinen, Karri Lehtonen and Eero Heikkinen
“We are overwhelmed and grateful for this significant environmental recognition, which shows us that we have spent our energy on the right thing. We hope that this recognition will also encourage other entrepreneurs to question established consumption patterns for a more sustainable and circular planet,” says one of Kamupak’s founders Iida Miettinen.
