Engage 2025 Awards - Discover our winners!

We're delighted to announce the first winner of our Engage 2025 Award: the Sail to Sandwich (S2S) project, led by the Juste 2°C association set up by students from the Ecoles Normales Supérieures de Paris, Paris-Saclay and Lyon, which has won a grant of €8,000! 

This interdisciplinary research expedition focuses on the maritime and island environments of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans. It is accompanied by an ambitious awareness-raising campaign, both in schools and among the general public. Congratulations to the team on this great initiative! 

Second place in the Engage 2025 Award goes to the Sea Plastics association for its 9ᵉ expedition, which combines scientific research into microplastics (plastics less than 5 mm in size) and raising awareness among the general public. Spearheaded by students from AgroParisTech, the project will take place in two stages: 

• A trip from Mortagne-sur-Gironde to the Mediterranean, with stopovers in Spain and Portugal, 

• Then a route along the east coast of Spain, the Balearic Islands and the south of France to La Seyne-sur-Mer, via Corsica. 

This project has been awarded €5,000 by the Foundation. Congratulations to the whole team for their scientific and environmental commitment! 

For the 3ᵉ place in the Engage 2025 award, the Project: from IngénieuxSud association wins €3,000 for its water desalination project on a farm in Kaolack, Senegal. The project, run by students at the Catholic University of Louvain, aims to fight the growing phenomenon of salinisation in the Sine-Saloum region. 

A fine experimental initiative in the service of sustainable agriculture and the environment! Congratulations for this innovative contribution and commitment ! . 

The AZACAE project received our Coup de Pouce award for its initiative to improve the health and social development of families in Andahuaylas, a village in Peru, through a social and center. The project, run by medical students from the Université de Médecine de Nantes, has three main focuses:  

• Construction: improved kitchens, renovated roofs, dry toilets. 

• Prevention: Oral hygiene workshops. 

• Donations: Mattresses for families, fruit trees for the school. 

Locally, in favour of the Peruvian economy, with the buildings constructed by local craftsmen. A great project for improving living conditions in partnership with local communities! 

The project run by Malaïka SSC ASBL will also receive a Coup de Pouce prize of €2,000. This project takes place in Uganda to support 25 children from disadvantaged backgrounds by offering them a quality education, access to healthcare and stable accommodation in a boarding school.  

The project, run by six students from the University of Liège, enables these children to get off the streets and access educational and psychological support, while promoting their empowerment through training and educational activities. The aim of the project this year is to evaluate the facilities and activities on the ground, previously supported by the NGO,  in order to assess their current impact. This evaluation work will highlight the improvements that need to be made to optimise the effectiveness of the actions on the ground. 

A project that focuses on measuring impact and optimising existing initiatives, to the benefit of local communities!