By recognising pioneering options and applied sciences that may change the world, the Zayed Sustainability Prize has rewarded innovators and visionaries whose achievements have furthered the worldwide proliferation of modern, impactful and inspirational sustainability options.
Over 352 million individuals have been straight or not directly impacted by the sustainability options and faculty tasks of the 86 recipients of the Prize winners because the first awards ceremony in 2009.
The Prize fund comes from the Abu Dhabi Authorities as a technique to honour and proceed the sustainability and humanitarian legacy of the founding father of the United Arab Emirates, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable power firm, manages the Zayed Sustainability Prize. A devoted group works on the Prize all 12 months spherical.
Advantages
The full prize fund is USD 3 million, distributed as follows:
- Well being USD 600,000
- Meals USD 600,000
- Vitality USD 600,000
- Water USD 600,000
- International Excessive Faculties USD 600,000
(divided amongst six colleges; awarding every as much as US$100,000)
Eligibilities
- HEALTH: This class acknowledges organizations which have demonstrated modern, impactful, and inspirational sustainability options within the areas of well being that embrace, however are usually not restricted to:
- Guaranteeing entry to important and inexpensive healthcare
- Guaranteeing entry to maternal and new-born healthcare
- Ending epidemics (AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and so on.)
- Stopping and treating water-borne, communicable and non-communicable ailments
- Decreasing sickness from air pollution, hazardous chemical compounds and contamination
- Organizations should additionally exhibit a transparent imaginative and prescient and long-term plan to additional deploy their answer and scale up their impression, in addition to inspiring others to observe go well with by advancing sustainable and human improvement.
- To be eligible for this class, organizations should be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or non-profit group (NPO).
- FOOD: This class recognises organisations which have demonstrated modern, impactful and inspirational sustainability options within the areas of meals that embrace, however are usually not restricted to:
- Reducing starvation and malnutrition
- Rising agricultural or different meals processing productiveness
- Enhancing sustainable meals manufacturing
- Organizations should additionally exhibit a transparent imaginative and prescient and long-term plan to additional deploy their answer and scale up their impression, in addition to inspiring others to observe go well with by advancing sustainable and human improvement.
- To be eligible for this class, organizations should be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or non-profit group (NPO).
- ENERGY: This class acknowledges organizations which have demonstrated modern, impactful and inspirational sustainability options within the areas of power that embrace, however are usually not restricted to:
- Guaranteeing entry to inexpensive and dependable clear power
- Rising manufacturing of fresh power
- Enhancing power effectivity
- Introducing new types of clear power or different know-how improvements
- Organizations should additionally exhibit a transparent imaginative and prescient and long-term plan to additional deploy their answer and scale up their impression, in addition to inspiring others to observe go well with by advancing sustainable and human improvement.
- To be eligible for this class, organizations should be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or non-profit group (NPO).
- WATER: This class acknowledges organizations that may exhibit modern, impactful, and inspirational sustainability options within the areas of water that embrace, however are usually not restricted to:
- Guaranteeing entry to secure and inexpensive ingesting water
- Guaranteeing entry to sanitation and hygiene
- Rising water use effectivity
- Enhancing water high quality
- Organisations should additionally exhibit a transparent imaginative and prescient and long-term plan to additional deploy their answer and scale up their impression, in addition to inspiring others to observe go well with by advancing sustainable and human improvement.
- To be eligible for this class, organizations should be small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), or non-profit group (NPO).
- GLOBAL HIGH SCHOOLS
- The International Excessive Faculties class acknowledges excessive colleges or secondary colleges, from six world geographic areas that suggest modern, impactful, and inspirational sustainability tasks within the areas of well being, meals, power, and/or water.
- The proposed mission could possibly be in a single space (e.g. water) or a mixture of areas (e.g. power, water, meals, and well being).
- The Prize is meant to encourage college students to develop and implement their sustainability concepts and isn’t aimed toward administrative tasks or academic reforms on the faculty.
- The award on this class isn’t given for previous achievements however will allow college students from profitable excessive colleges to implement sustainability tasks in their very own colleges. These student-led tasks should exhibit modern approaches to deal with sustainability challenges, and encourage college students to take energetic roles in sustainable improvement.
Eligible Areas: The Americas, Europe & Central Asia, Center East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia & Pacific
APPLICATION PROCESS
Apply on-line via the given hyperlink.
Software Deadline: Could 6, 2021 (73 Days Remaining)
