For 180 years Schneider Electric has been committed to changing the way we access energy. As a global specialist in energy management, with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including utilities & infrastructures, machine manufacturers, non-residential buildings, data centres & networks, and in residential buildings. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green, the Group’s 170,000 plus employees achieved revenues of over 24.7 billion euros in 2016 through an active commitment to helping individuals and organizations make the most of their energy.

 

 

Schneider Electric’s international business case challenge (the “Contest”), also called Go Green, aims at supporting the emergence of innovative solutions to meet future challenges in intelligent energy.

 

The Contest is organized in three steps, with each step followed by a period of review, assessment and selection who will move onto the next stage in the competition.

 

The Final award will be announced by the jury upon the conclusion of the Final presentations during June 2020.

 

 

Only university students eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of submission of the Initial Application are permitted to submit their proposals.

 

Students worldwide must be registered in a bachelor’s (at least the 2nd year), master’s or MBA program of business or engineering are eligible to compete in the Contest.

 

The Contest is open exclusively to individual students in teams of two, of which at least one team member is female. Both of the team members must study in the same region for the duration of the competition. They are not, however, required to be from the same university, nor are they required to study the same subject or be in the same year, as long as they are not in their first year of their undergraduate education. Likewise, the students are not required to be permanent residents or nationals of the country in which they are studying in order to compete. Should an individual student Entrant be disqualified, that Entrant’s team will no longer be able to participate.

 

Schneider Electric’s customers, their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, and their respective employees, officers, directors, representatives, agents, consultants, contractors and their family members are not eligible to participate. Schneider Electric reserves the right to limit, or restrict upon notice, participation in the Contest to any person who fails to comply with these Rules and Conditions.

 

 

 

 

You must register for the competition as an individual. However, to submit a full application you must also register as a team of two.

 

Accepted formats for the initial application:

Text description: .doc or .pdf format, max. 500 words, 12-size Arial or Times New Roman font, file size max. 15 MB

Infographic: .ppt or .pdf format, max. 10 slides/pages including 1 cover slide, file size max. 15 MB

 

Make sure to clearly state your objectives and original ideas for a solution to any of the world’s energy problems, or one of the Schneider Electric’s four business case challenges. Be creative! Do not submit ideas that are not your own.

 

Initial Applications must be submitted online in plain English. In submitting the application, the applicant accepts these Rules and Conditions (RAC) and the rules governing the submission of the application form available online at gogreen.se.com by each team. Each individual applicant is allowed to enter the Contest as a part of only one team and to submit only one Initial Application.

 

1.2. Important Notice

Initial Applications for Phase I shall be treated as a confidential, non-public disclosure according to various applicable national patent laws for the duration of Phase I and Phase II. By submitting an Initial Application, each team’s Entrants understand that after Phase II all such submissions will no longer be maintained on a confidential basis by Schneider Electric, and Entrants understand the potential impact of and agree to allow Schneider Electric the right to publicly disclose their Initial Application or any document based on, or derived from their Initial Application. Each Entrant agrees that by submitting their Initial Application they waive any claim relating to confidentiality against Schneider Electric for any disclosure or use of confidential information provided to Schneider Electric by any Entrant.

 

As permitted by applicable relevant law, by submitting the Initial Application, each team Entrant assigns its Intellectual Property Rights related to the Initial Application to Schneider Electric. (Where compliance with local law dictates that additional requirements be met, such compliance will be accommodated on a case-by-case basis.) If an Entrant has sold or otherwise committed their idea to a third party, or has obtained or is in the process of obtaining any granted Patent or pending Patent application relating to their Initial Application, whether before or after submitting their Initial Application, each Entrant shall notify Schneider Electric of such event upon submitting the Initial Application (indicating whether such activity is with the prior knowledge or involvement of Schneider Electric) and Entrant hereby a) grants a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully sub-licensable, royalty-free, transferable license (including the right to sub-license) to make, have made, use, import, and directly or indirectly sell and offer to sell, and otherwise distribute and dispose of any product or any service under any Patent based on information described in the Initial Application and b) irrevocably agrees to not assert such Patent against Schneider Electric, its affiliates, distributors, customers and/or clients for the manufacture, use, import, offer for sale, or sale of any product and/or service and the use of any method employed in the manufacture, distribution or use. Each Entrant agrees not to initiate any such action (i.e. filing for a patent application on or committing or licensing any IP rights in their Initial Application) after submission of the Initial Application, without first obtaining the prior formal written consent of Schneider Electric. If an Entrant has any contractual or employment relationship with any other entity, such shall be disclosed upon application.

 

Initial Applications shall be valid only if the Participation Form is submitted by all the entrants of the team before the end of the submission phase on the Go Green website.

 

 

The jury, composed of Schneider Electric managers, will select regional semi-finalists. All Initial Applications are evaluated on the same basis.

 

All the participants will be informed about their selection status via the contact details provided when entering the Contest.

 

The most important selection criteria include:

 

 

 

If your team is one of the regional top teams selected by Schneider Electric to proceed to Phase II, the presented idea needs to be a clear evolution of the idea you submitted in Phase I and must be sent in PPT format (no longer than 15 slides) to be uploaded with your CV. Selected teams may be assigned a mentor from the Schneider Electric team. The mentor will coach the team and help them to evolve their idea and review CV, if local rules allows mentorship.

 

 

Each of Phase III mentor will be an employee of Schneider Electric. The mentor’s task is to support and challenge the realization of the team’s solution. Interactions between the mentor and their assigned team will be initiated from the Agorize platform, then can be made by phone, email or Skype. The frequency and mode of communication between the mentor and their assigned team will be decided by the mentor, taking into consideration the preferences of both parties.

 

 

A new jury, composed of Schneider Electric managers, will select up to 10 of the most promising business cases from the previously selected set for Phase II. All the participants will be informed about their qualification status via the contact details provided when entering the Contest.

 

The most important judging criteria include:

 

 

 

Once Schneider Electric has reviewed the participant synopses, the top 8 teams will be announced. The 8 teams will be invited to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA by Schneider Electric to present the case challenge solutions for intelligent energy management that they have worked on with their mentors. A final jury panel, composed of Schneider Electric’s executive leaders, will judge the final presentations. The selected teams for Phase III will have to provide support material for a live oral presentation, which will be followed by a Q&A session with the jury panel. After the oral presentations of all 8 finalist teams, the jury will choose one team as a winner, which will be announced at the end of the Final day of the event.

 

The most important judging criteria at this stage are:

 

 

By the end of the final round, one winning team will be selected.

 

The winning team will be given the opportunity to travel to Boston, Massachusetts, USA (after the final event). The team will have the opportunity to visit Schneider Electric’s offices, network with employees and interact with high level management, and tour MIT and Greentown Labs.

 

In addition, Schneider Electric and/or its Affiliates will evaluate further the industrialization of the winning concept and subject to normal business considerations the potential to commercialize the solution. In any manner, none of the above shall be construed as an obligation for Schneider Electric and/or any of its Affiliates to industrialize/ commercialize the winning concepts and/or recruit any of the Entrants.

 

 

Once submitted, Entrants waive all rights to any intellectual property (IP) rights in the submitted Initial Application, as permitted by applicable law. (Where compliance with local law dictates that additional requirements be met, such compliance will be accommodated on a case-by-case basis.) Schneider Electric may, at its sole discretion, file one or more patent applications based on an Initial Application, Semi-Final or Final submission and/or any derivatives thereof. Each Entrant agrees to cooperate with Schneider Electric in the preparation, filing, and prosecution of any such patent application, including completing any requested documentation related to the patent application, such as an assignment of patent rights to Schneider Electric. If Schneider Electric elects to file a patent application based on an Initial Application, Semi-Final or Final submission and Entrant cooperates with Schneider Electric as described above, Entrant shall receive a patent award in a monetary amount equal to the patent award that would be received by an employee of Schneider Electric upon filing from the same country as Entrant. Schneider Electric may, at its sole discretion, file one or more trademark applications based on an Initial Application, Semi-Final or Final submission and/or any derivatives thereof. Each Entrant agrees to cooperate with Schneider Electric in the preparation, filing, and prosecution of any such trademark application, including completing any requested documentation related to the trademark application, such as an assignment of trademark rights to Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric may, at its sole discretion, publish a document based on an Initial Application, Semi-Final or Final submission and/or any derivatives thereof, such as a paper, report, presentation, or summary. Each Entrant agrees to cooperate with Schneider Electric in the preparation of any such document, including completing any requested documentation related to the document, such as an assignment of copyrights to Schneider Electric.

 

 

Please read carefully the legal notices available on the website gogreen.se.com by registering the application form on the Contest website, each Entrant must check the checkbox to acknowledge their understanding of all Rules and Conditions of the Contest and further agree to those Rules and Conditions.

 

 

By entering the Contest, Entrants agree to waive any right to claim any ambiguity or error in these Rules and Conditions, or the Contest itself, and agree to be bound by these Rules and Conditions by all decisions of Schneider Electric, which are binding and final. Failure to comply with these Rules and Conditions may result in disqualification from this Contest. Schneider Electric reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel, terminate or suspend the Contest and/or these Rules and Conditions without advance notice for any reason. Any changes to the Rules and Conditions will be posted on the Rules and Conditions page of the Contest website and an email will be sent to the email address of each Entrant used to enter the Contest. Schneider Electric and its representatives reserve the right to make changes to any elements of this Contest, or these official Rules and Conditions at any time with or without notice. Schneider Electric further reserves the right to postpone, amend or modify the Contest for any reason, in the sole discretion of Schneider Electric.

 

 

 

The laws of France, without regard to conflicts of law, shall construe any issue concerning the construction, validity and enforcement of these official Rules and Conditions, or the rights and obligations of the Entrant and Schneider Electric.

 

 

“Intellectual Property” or “IPR” means any and all intellectual property rights including all of the following and all rights in, arising out of, or associated therewith: (i) procedures, designs, inventions, and discoveries; (ii) works of authorship, copyrights and other rights in works of authorship; (iii) mask work rights, (iv) know-how, show-how and trade secrets on a worldwide basis, and (v) all Patents issued or issuable thereon, and all trademarks, trade names, or other forms of corporate or product identification.

 

“Patents” means all classes or types of patents (including, without limitation, originals, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions or reissues) and applications for these classes or types of patent rights in all countries of the world.

 

 

All persons involved in the preparation of the Initial Application shall be identified below. Any Initial Application submitted without such form being duly submitted by the date of closure February 15, 2020, shall be disqualified and discarded and will not be reviewed by Schneider Electric. Participation form to only be submitted online for each team member on an individual basis.

First Name:
Last Name:
Email Address:
Location of Study:
University
Date of Birth:
Gender:
Telephone Number:
Nationality:
Major / Field of Study:
Expected date of graduation:

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