Deadline: 2024-06-11T22:00:00Z
Apply : Youth Innovation Challenge | Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) (thegeep.org)
About the program:
In partnership with the Taiwan Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA), GEEP invites you to apply for the 2024 Youth Innovation Challenge (YIC): Advancing Marine Conservation! The YIC provides an opportunity for young people ages 15–30 around the world to share their innovative solutions to protect marine resources. This year’s challenge explores how we can address marine issues, including loss of biodiversity, marine debris, lack of awareness, and other related issues, and support people of all ages to be engaged stewards to support marine environments. The YIC seeks solutions that are innovative, feasible, and informed by research. Winning solutions will receive global recognition and a $1,000 USD prize and be invited to attend the YIC award ceremony at the Taiwan Ocean Conservation Administration’s marine debris conference in Taiwan in September 2024 (all travel expenses covered)!
Eligibility Criteria:
The Youth Innovation Challenge is intended for young leaders and
innovators aged 15–30. Your innovative solutions must provide a solution
to one of the following key areas, using environmental education as a key
component:
• Marine biodiversity and conservation: Managing, protecting, and/
or restoring marine biodiversity for its ecological, cultural, economic,
and other values.
• Marine debris: Reducing and/or mitigating the effects of
marine debris, including the monitoring, clean-up, and recycling
of marine debris, and educating communities about how to
address these issues.
• Public-private collaboration: Collaborating between the
private sector, governments, and the public to protect marine
environments. This might include ideas for cooperation between
government and corporations to fulfill corporate social responsibility
(CSR) goals, civic engagement opportunities for the public to
engage with government programs, and other initiatives