EASTERN CAPE
Waste-to-Value in Urban and Rural Areas
The NCIC Eastern Cape’s Waste-to-Value innovation technology Challenge seeks to identify and support innovative, technically feasible solutions that convert low-value waste streams into high-value products with proven market demand and job creation potential.
FREE STATE
Regenerative Agriculture in Large-Scale Commercial Farming
This challenge aims to address these issues by accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture at a large commercial scale, fostering innovation, investment, and knowledge sharing across the sector.
GAUTENG
Inclusive Innovation for Clean Public Transport: Automotive Smart City
This challenge calls on innovators to tackle one of Gauteng’s most critical issues: a deepening mobility crisis. We are seeking post-proof-of-concept digital cleantech solutions to create a smarter, greener, and more equitable transport future.
KWAZULU-NATAL
Clean Port Logistics
Kwazulu-Natal’s port logistics systems remain heavily carbon-intensive; its industrial hubs dependent on an unstable power grid, and waste streams from ports, manufacturing, and agro-processing continue to strain municipal infrastructure and ecosystems.
LIMPOPO
Regenerative Agriculture in Small Scale Farming
Shared water resources such as the Limpopo River and its catchments are already strained, while many rural villages still lack reliable energy and water access. These vulnerabilities undermine food security, constrain economic opportunity, and perpetuate rural poverty.
MPUMALANGA
Clean Energy
The NCIC Mpumalanga Clean Energy Challenge invites enterprises, entrepreneurs, and innovators to pioneer scalable clean-tech technologies and business models that repurpose coal-based infrastructure and expertise towards renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, and waste-to-energy innovation.
NORTHERN CAPE
Renewable Energy Generation and Transmission
Northern Cape seeks innovative, scalable, and inclusive solutions that harness the province’s renewable energy potential while addressing its water, agriculture, and transmission bottlenecks.
NORTH-WEST
Rehabilitation of Mining Lands for Agricultural Use
The North West Province stands at the crossroads of opportunity — where abandoned mine lands meet the promise of new innovation. Once central to South Africa’s industrial growth, these landscapes now hold untapped potential to drive a new wave of sustainable development and local enterprise.
WESTERN CAPE
Hybrid Optimization of Wind, Solar, and Biomass Technologies
The Western Cape Renewable Energy Hybrid Challenge seeks to catalyse innovation in the optimisation and integration of renewable energy technologies—specifically wind, solar, and biomass, to create reliable, low-carbon power systems that serve urban, peri-urban, and rural communities.