Masdar announces Ecothon Innovation Challenge winners 8 hours ago The Ecothon aims to develop participants’ skills and knowledge to enable them to become future business leaders and innovators. Gulf Today, Staff Reporter Masdar’s Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S) platform has announced "Re.” as the winning team of its Ecothon Innovation Challenge. Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S), a Masdar outreach initiative, invests and actively supports the development of youth, with the objective of enabling them to become the sustainability leaders of tomorrow. Hosted in collaboration with Nestlé, Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and the Authority of Social Contribution – Ma’an, the challenge tasked the competing teams with developing either new and recyclable material for packaging, production and design, or an innovation that could enable society, governments and corporations to encourage responsible behaviour toward a single-use plastic-free future.