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GENERATION GREEN FORUM 2026
20 November 2026 at
Generation Green Forum is is a collaborative journey between Water Air Food Awards – WAFA and Copenhagen Business School – CBS that empowers and connects exceptional eco-pioneers with corporations, designers, impact investors and universities to scale and replicate their proven solutions.
ARE YOU OUR NEXT PARTNER?
The story is being told. Silent heroes around the world are ready for us – their impact partners. WAFA is also ready to build on their proven solutions together with organisations that want to make a measurable lasting difference in environmental and social sustainability. Be our Impact Partner and ensure access to clean water, clean air, nutritious food and climate resilience for many more communities around the world.
GENERATION GREEN FORUM 2026
In partnership with Copenhagen Business School @ Green Business Forum
FROM PROVEN SOLUTIONS TO GREATER IMPACT
20–21 November 2026 | Copenhagen, Denmark
The Generation Green Forum is a global platform bringing together grassroots innovators, students, universities, designers, artists, corporations, impact investors and policymakers to turn proven impactful nature-based solutions into models that has potential to be further developed, replicated and scaled.
TWO DAYS. ONE SHARED PURPOSE.
20 November — Copenhagen Business School : Workshop & Exhibition of WAFA Awardees and Case Study Competition Winners, as part of the CBS Green Business Forum.
21 November — Design Workshops & Award Show : A day of cross-disciplinary workshops followed by an evening celebrating WAFA’s four Award Winners and the CBS Case Study Competition Winners.
WHERE PROVEN SOLUTIONS MEET THE RESOURCES TO GROW
The Forum connects real-world solutions with the people and resources needed to take them further.
It brings together:
- WAFA’s award-winning grassroots solutions
Concrete designs developed by CBS students
Corporate expertise, technology and resources
Design and creative know-how
Impact investment and co-financing
Academic knowledge and research
Policymaker perspectives
The objective is simple: to develop models that can work for many more communities.
CELEBRATING THE SILENT HEROES
Since 2008, Water Air Food Awards (WAFA) has identified and celebrated grassroots exceptional pioneers developing practical, locally rooted solutions for clean water, clean air, nutritious food and climate resilience.
WAFA at a glance:
700+ award applications
82 countries reached
84 million people reached through media
18 awards presented in 13 countries across 5 continents
These “Silent Heroes” often create extraordinary solutions with limited resources and exceptional ingenuity.
Generation Green Forum gives their solutions visibility, recognition and new opportunities for collaboration — connecting them with the next generation of changemakers and with organisations capable of propelling their work.
A PLATFORM FOR ACTION
Generation Green Forum creates opportunities for partners to:
Discover proven solutions from around the world
Collaborate across disciplines and sectors
Develop concrete designs and implementation models
Connect with new talent, partners and opportunities
Scale solutions with potential for wider impact
OUR AMBITION
To build the “Humanitarian Oscars” — a global platform that celebrates the people solving some of humanity’s most urgent challenges, and collaborate across sectors to make their solutions reach many more communities.
The challenges are enormous.
And so are the solutions.
GENERATION GREEN FORUM 2026
Where proven solutions meet design, creativity, knowledge, capital and action.
Where Silent Heroes meet the next generation of changemakers.
Where we do more than celebrate what works — we develop models that make it work for many more.
ARE YOU OUR NEXT PARTNER?
STORIES THAT MATTER
Our Silent Heroes turn problems into solutions using low-tech, sustainable, scalable projects that benefits their local communities. Changing and saving lives, one step at a moment. WAFA is here to support that solutions.
