1. Al-Cybersecurity Essay Prize Competition 2025.
Munich Security Conference (MSC) and Binding Hook proudly announce the Al-Cybersecurity Essay Prize Competition, inviting experts to explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence on cybersecurity. This competition seeks insightful analyses on the implications for Europe and recommendations for policymakers, with an opportunity for winners to be recognized at an international forum.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 2
2. Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) Photo Contest 2025 (€3,000 prize)
Are you passionate about photography and the gear that makes it possible? Don’t miss your chance to showcase your skills in the camerAmore 2025 competition, where they celebrate the unique relationship between photographers and their equipment! Apply for the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) Photo Contest 2025.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 15
3. Designing Futures 2050 International Design Competition (€5,000 prize)
Designing Futures 2050 is an international design competition, developed and held by BE OPEN and their partners. It is open to students and recent graduates/young professionals internationally.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31
4. Sustainability Prize 2025 for Photographers & makers ($5,000 Prize)
The Sustainability Prize, launched by Creo and Sony, invites filmmakers passionate about communicating key themes linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, including environment, accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 12
5. Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge 2025 ($10,000 grand prize)
Every year, the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge invites teams of graduate students from around the world to develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges. The Challenge facilitates connections with leading industry professionals in order to identify, empower, and inspire those who will make up the future of sustainable finance.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 26
6. Royal Society Africa Prize 2025 (£2,000 prize)
Nominations are open for the Royal Society Africa Prize 2025. The Africa Prize is awarded to scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the biological or physical sciences which contributes significantly to capacity building in Africa. The prize was previously the Royal Society Pfizer Award which was last awarded in 2016.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 21
7. Commonwealth Peace Prize 2025.
The Commonwealth Peace Prize will be awarded to a distinguished peacebuilder with a strong track record of faith-based engagement in conflict resolution, promotion of social cohesion, and sustainable peace. The prize organised and delivered by the Khalili Foundation in partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat, is a part of the Commonwealth Faith Festival and Faith in the Commonwealth Initiative.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 17
8. De Shang Yun Porcelain Branding Contest 2024. De Shang Yun Porcelain Branding Contest 2024 (€3,000 prize)
Yun Porcelain is looking for a new name and brand identity targeted at the global market, which includes logo design, distinctive graphic elements, packaging, and shipping solutions. The primary objectives are to build a strong, recognizable global brand identity that reflects both deep Chinese cultural roots and a contemporary aesthetic appealing to international tastes, and to present and promote Chinese white porcelain within the international market, focusing on craftsmanship and quality.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 18
9. Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Photo Contest 2024 ($1,000 prize)
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Photo Contest 2024. The theme, “The Future of Farming: Pathways to Carbon-Neutral Agriculture,” of the 18th Photo Contest of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), is timely as agriculture face many challenges.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 15
10.Content is Queen Micro-Grants for Podcasters 2024.
The Content is Queen is thrilled to open the next round of their applications for Micro-Grants for Podcasters Programme for creators around the globe, which for the first time, will be via CIQs marketplace – the community and platform where creators, advertisers, and commissioners converge to redefine the audio industry.
Click here to apply |Deadline: January 3
11. European Landowners Land and Soil Management Award 2024/2025 (€5,000 prize)
The prize rewards land use and soil management practices mitigating soil threats i.e. soil degradation, erosion, reduction of organic matter content, diffuse contamination, and compaction as well as the reduction of soil biodiversity, salinization, sealing, flooding and landslides.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31
12. Global Citizen Prize Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2025 ($250,000 prize)
The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award honors an individual aged 18-30 who has contributed meaningfully towards the goal of ending extreme poverty.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 18
13. Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge 2024 (up to $1,000,000 in prizes)
Hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists and funded by the Seeding the Future Foundation, the Challenge is intended to support innovations that have the potential for significant impact at scale and over time and benefit at least one or more of the following intersecting domains: nutritious food for a healthy diet; sustainably produced; and accessible, appealing, affordable, and trusted by consumers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 6
14. AFIDEP/AUDA-NEPAD Emerging Technologies Media Award 2025 ($5,000 grand prize)
Through the Platform for Dialogue and Action on Health Technologies in Africa (Health Tech Platform), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) announce a call for entries for the third edition of the Emerging Technologies Media Award of Excellence. The Emerging Technologies Media Award (ETMA) is an annual recognition of journalists at the forefront of reporting of African-led technologies and innovations to achieve the continent’s socioeconomic transformation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 10
15. Letten Prize 2025 for Young Researchers (up to 2.5 million NOK)
Applications are open for the Letten Prize 2025 for Young Researchers. The purpose of the prize ‘is to recognize younger researchers’ contributions in the fields of health, development and environment in all aspects of human life’.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 6
16. Call for Nominations: Yidan Prize 2025 for Changemakers (up to HK$30 million)
Nominations are open for the Yidan Prize 2025. The world’s highest education accolade welcomes changemakers globally to join its expert community in addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing education Today.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 31
17. Ayn Rand Institute Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest 2024 ($25,000 prize)
Every three months there is a new seasonal entry round, with its own unique essay prompt.
Each entry round features a unique topic designed to provoke a deeper understanding of the book’s central themes and characters. You may compete in any or all of the entry rounds.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 27
18. Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development 2024 (up to $1,000,000 in prizes)
The prize is awarded annually by the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) with the aim of inciting and encouraging innovation and creativity in human development. The idea of the Prize is stemmed from AGFUND’s approach to enhance development performance and support key development projects in order to achieve the goal of sustainability and investment in people.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 15
19. Trust for Sustainable Living International Student Competition 2025 (£1,000 prize)
Since their first competition was launched in 2010, Trust for Sustainable Living (TSL) has received over 14,000 essay and video entries from 120 countries, exploring topics from sustainability education, protecting biodiversity and sustainable cities, to climate justice, nature-based solutions and vouth messages to world leaders.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3
20. 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival Poster Contest 2025 ($1,000 prize)
Applications are open for the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival Poster Contest 2025. The Chicago Latino Film Festival celebrates its 41st Anniversary next year! For the last four decades, the Festival has introduced to Chicago audiences the most representative and diverse selection of films from throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal and the United States. The Chicago Latino Film Festival is the oldest festival of its kind in the United States.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 13
21. SADC Media Awards Competition 2025 ($2,500 prize)
The Awards were established in 1996 to recognise best media work in disseminating information on SADC to support the process of regional co-operation, integration and development in the SADC region.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28
22. TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting: Uncovering Commercial Bribery 2025 ($10,000 prize)
TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting: Uncovering Commercial Bribery 2025. The TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting recognizes journalism that uncovers business-related bribery and financial crime with the goal of increasing commercial transparency and good governance.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31
23. Call for Nomination: Hillman Prize for Journalism 2025 ($5,000 prize)
Hillman Prize for Journalism 2025. Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers and public figures that pursue investigative journalism and public policy in service of the common good. Recipients exemplify reportorial excellence, storytelling skill, and social justice impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 30
24. Canadian Hillman Prize for Journalism 2025.
The Canadian Hillman Prizes honour excellence in journalism in service of the common good. The Hillman Prizes seek out investigative reporting that draws attention to social or economic injustice and leads to meaningful public policy change. They strive to recognize discernment of a significant news story, resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skill in relating the story and the impact of the coverage. Starting in 2024, the foundation now awards three Canadian Hillman Prizes instead of one.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 15
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