Deadline: 2024-06-15T22:00:00Z
Apply : Zero Project Call for Nominations 2025 | #ZeroCall25 | Zero Project
About the program:
The Zero Project Call for Nominations 2025 (#ZeroCall25) calls on innovative, impactful, and scalable solutions from around the world to submit their nominations for a Zero Project Award. Becoming a Zero Project Awardee opens doors, opportunities, and promotional channels with the support of the global Zero Project Network of more than 10,000+ experts and through exclusive initiatives to advance innovations for disability inclusion.
#ZeroCall25 is centered around the topics of Employment and ICT . The Zero Project encourages nominations from all countries and all sectors of society – policy makers, startups, academia, civil society, businesses – and especially, those relating to multiple or severe disabilities, humanitarian action, gender equality, the arts, sexual orientation, psychosocial disabilities, or other multiple disadvantaged groups.
Becoming a Zero Project Awardee opens doors, opportunities, and promotional channels: Zero Project Awardees receive support from the global Zero Project Network of 10,000+ experts, feature at the annual Zero Project Conference at the UN in Vienna, and get the opportunity to join exclusive initiatives to advance their solutions
Eligibility Criteria:
The Zero Project Call for Nominations is open to innovative solutions from all countries and all sectors of society.
The #ZeroCall25 research topics are Employment and ICT. Nominations must be submitted for one of these two topics. To ensure that your nomination falls within the scope of #ZeroCall25, please read carefully through the criteria here below. The Zero Project’s methodology is based on a 4-year cycle of research topics. Therefore, nominations that work primarily in the fields of education, independent living & political participation or general accessibility will not be considered as part of #ZeroCall25.
The #ZeroCall25 selection process is centered around three main criteria: Innovation, Impact, and Scalability
Minimum Requirement:
- Actual work on the ground has to have happened. This means that purely academic research, publications, declarations or ideas about how to better solve issues, or protoypes will not be considered. Projects that are advocacy campaigns will also not be considered.
- Nominations will have to be operational and sustainable. If there is a planned end (as for example in some grant-funded projects schemes), there has to be a clear plan for continuation.
- Nominations that do not respect the Articles of the UN CRPD or general human rights principles (e.g. discriminating against ethnic or other minorities because of religion, language etc.) will not be considered.
- Nominations need to provide factual information about the organisation’s and solution’s work, size, growth and outcome/impact.