ESG Impact Dashboard - Transparency on funding social housing and communities
BayernLB / BayernLabo is looking for innovative partners to design a future-oriented ESG/KPI dashboard that makes the impact of funding for social housing and communities transparent, comparable and forward-looking. The goal: better indicators, better visualisation and a clearer understanding of how funding contributes to sustainability from different stakeholder perspectives. Both conceptual and technical approaches are welcome.
Who can participate?
This challenge is open to a broad range of innovators, including:
- startups & scaleups working on ESG, analytics, data modelling or visualization
- research teams in sustainability, data science, public policy or impact measurement
- specialised consultancies with experience in ESG/SDG logic, indicators or dashboard design
- tech providers capable of building adaptable prototypes or data structures
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🏆 Prize Co-Development + Scaling + Long-Term Partnership
🕑 Deadline Feb 10, 2026, 10:59 PM🌎 Scope Europe
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Status Quo
Below you will find all essential information about the current situation and the underlying challenge.
Context
BayernLabo is the development bank of the Free State of Bavaria, focused on social housing and municipal financing. BayernLabo is a legally dependent, but organisationally and financially independent body established under public law within BayernLB, which itself is an institution established under public law (Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts). As a public institution, it must transparently report the use and impact of funding to:
- internal management,
- the Free State of Bavaria (especially the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Transport),
- and the broader public (citizens, media, investors, political stakeholders).
This requires clear, reliable and accessible information on how public funds contribute to sustainability, impact, long-term development goals and can shape the future.
Data & Reporting Today
BayernLabo currently operates a well-defined set of public funding programmes (e.g., social housing, municipal financing), each with a clear legal purpose and annual funding volumes. These programmes form the basis for all ESG- and SDG-related reporting.
The key data sources and reporting elements available today include
- programme-level funding volumes and numbers of supported housing units
- an annual SDG allocation of funding programmes, based on a transparent methodology (see SDG Mapping & Methods)
- narrative and quantitative sustainability reporting in the Annual Report
- external assessments, such as the ISS ESG Second Party Opinion
Problem Definition
Current reporting formats provide valuable transparency but remain:
- retrospective (past-year, static, not interactive),
- fragmented across documents and units,
- limited in showing trends, risks or future-oriented developments (e.g., climate adaptation, demographic change, regulatory expectations),
- and not designed to meet diverse stakeholder needs with consistent, comparable insights or projections.
As a result, BayernLabo is looking for an integrated, forward-looking view of its impact that can support:
- strategic discussions,
- multi-stakeholder communication,
- future-oriented funding and
- continuous management of sustainability and impact contributions.