Evaluation Criteria
The evaluation criteria used for both the applications and for selecting the winning team(s) can be found below. Further instructions on what will be expected in the application phase will be found on the digital hub available at 11problems.solved.fi or on the Wolf Society’s website at www.wolfsociety.org. Furthermore, finalist teams will be given more detailed instructions during the co-creation phase on what their final competition entries should include.
The evaluation criteria for each challenge will be specified in detail during the challenge design process, together with the challenge owner, its expert team, but also sponsors, backers, Wolf Society’s core team and also with the experts and mentors involved in the process. The preliminary evaluation criteria for challenge definition are listed below.
- Innovation: How novel and innovative is the solution? Does it offer a unique approach to addressing the ecological problem? What is the unique value it offers?
- Impact: What is the potential ecological, environmental, social, and economic impact of the solution? Does it contribute to sustainability goals? E.g. solvers will have to describe what kind of natural resources and energy sources their solution needs and is utilizing, and assess the volume of the resources needed. Similarly social impact, impact on economic development, jobs creation, startups and scaleups, education, research collaboration, etc., need to be included.
- Scalability: Can the solution be scaled globally or adapted to different contexts?
- Feasibility: How practical and feasible is the solution for implementation in the real world? Are the resources and technology required readily available? The solution should be technologically, financially, legally, administratively, culturally and ethically feasible. The description should include the different actors and stakeholders involved in the implementation.
- Cost Impact: The goal of the initiative is to find solutions that can be implemented and used at a feasible cost to challenge owners and end-users. Solvers are required to present the total costs of their solutions (e.g. development work, implementation/investment costs, usage/operating costs).
- Time Schedule: Solvers have to describe the implementation schedule for their solution in various phases: design, roll out, operations, further development or phasing out, including risk factors that may have an impact on the schedule.
- Reliability: Description of the general reliability and the security of the proposed solution, including a risk mitigation plan.
- Capacity: Estimation of the solution’s capacity/potential to solve the challenge.
- Team Collaboration: How well did the team collaborate and utilize their diverse skills and backgrounds? Was the design thinking methodology effectively applied?
- Market Potential: Does the solution have a clear market or audience? Is there potential for commercialization and financial sustainability?
- Other: Within each of them, there is focus on what kind of impact will the solutions have on other areas not mentioned above, but could potentially represent an unique value for the challenge owner or society, like poverty eradication, or even other pressing problems as solving of the war conflicts and other societal and economic implications.