Little Sun medals and trophy
Little Sun is a nonprofit founded in 2012 by contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen to deliver affordable clean energy and inspire people to take climate action.
The organization has helped provide clean power and light to over 3.2 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa who would not otherwise have access to it.
This has enabled 58 million additional study hours for children, saved households $150 million in expenses, and helped reduce CO₂ emissions by 800,000 metric tons.
Little Sun has generously donated Little Suns to our winners in the tournament since the first tournament in 2016. The perfect medal if you ask us, and we are so very thankful to have the opportunity to spread the Little Sun project wherever we play.
We are all #ConnectedByTheSun.
GGWCUP Dubai 2021 and Overall Champion Team Diamond Divas playing for Global Goal 11.
“It is wonderful to see how the Global Goals World Cup has succeeded in using football to empower women and girls who are taking action for a more just and equitable future. Like football, activism is an endeavour in which we work together towards a common goal. By harnessing this shared emotional investment and playful spirit of competition, the Global Goals World Cup is able to support young women from around the world who are helping to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs are an incredible roadmap to the kind of world where every child has access to food, health, education, and energy, and it is a great honour for me to have been able to design the trophy that the winning team will take home with them for their great performance in the service of our shared world.”
2018 world premiere of artist Olafur Eliasson’s GGWCUP Trophy
In September 2018 everyone could get a a close first-hand look at Eliasson’s work and meet the champions of the 3rd Global Goals World Cup Team Goleadoras at a cocktail reception at Tanya Bonakadar Gallery in Chelsea.
The brass trophy was designed and built by Eliasson in his workshop in Berlin and brought to the New York City tournament in time for the winners to hoist the coveted art piece.
About Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson’s art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. He strives to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world.
Eliasson’s works span sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installation. Not limited to the confines of the museum and gallery, his practice engages the broader public sphere through architectural projects, interventions in civic space, arts education, policy-making, and issues of sustainability and climate change.
GGWCUP Finals NYC 2017: Olafur Eliasson (second from left) is wearing the Little Sun Diamond.
