Small and medium enterprises, non-profit organisations and excessive faculties invited to submit entries earlier than the two May 2023 deadline
Abu Dhabi, UAE – The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering international award for recognising excellence in sustainability, has formally introduced that the 2024 cycle is now open for submissions.
Submissions will likely be accepted till 2nd May 2023 by the Prize’s on-line portal. Small to medium enterprises, nonprofit organisations and excessive faculties with sustainability options are invited to submit an entry for consideration in one of many 5 classes of Heath, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.
The Prize’s 2023 award cycle obtained a record-breaking 4,538 purposes from 152 international locations, marking a 13% improve in submissions in comparison with the earlier cycle.
Commenting on the launch of the 2024 submissions cycle, H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Director General of the Zayed Sustainability Prize, mentioned: “This year, the Prize celebrates 15 years of honouring the legacy of the UAE’s Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed, and accelerating sustainable development and humanitarian impact around the world. Since 2008, the Prize has, through the visionary leadership of the United Arab Emirates, facilitated the delivery of sustainable solutions to vulnerable communities, improving access to reliable and affordable energy, safe drinking water, nutritious food and quality healthcare for millions. These efforts directly support the UAE’s broader aims to encourage international collaboration and build a sustainable and prosperous global economy.”
H.E. Al Jaber added, “Importantly, the Prize has prioritised youth and empowers younger individuals to steer in sustainable growth.
Through the Global High Schools class, the Prize offers alternatives for younger individuals to construct their expertise in sustainability and management and encourages them to take an energetic position in supporting their communities and driving local weather motion.”
“The Zayed Sustainability Prize helps organisations and schools scale their solutions, enabling them to realise even greater impact and catalyse positive, transformational change. To date, the Prize has impacted the lives of over 378 million people around the world, including in Vietnam, Nepal, Sudan, Ethiopia, Maldives and Tuvalu.”
The Prize’s US$3 million fund rewards winners US$600,000 in every class. The Global High Schools class is break up into six world areas, with every faculty capable of declare as much as US$100,000 to start out or additional increase their mission. The six world areas of the Global High Schools class are The Americas, Europe & Central Asia, Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and East Asia & Pacific.
Inspired by the sustainability and humanitarian legacy of the UAE’s Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the Prize has, up to now, recognised a complete of 106 winners whose options or student-led faculty initiatives have positively reworked the lives of hundreds of thousands.
While the submission varieties fluctuate per class, core components of every entry lie within the revolutionary, impactful and inspirational methods during which the proposed know-how, purposes and options purpose to enhance wellbeing and sustainability.
For the Health, Food, Energy, and Water classes, organisations ought to show that they’re bettering entry to important services or products and have a long-term imaginative and prescient for higher residing and dealing situations. For the Global High Schools class, their initiatives must be scholar–led, with emphasis positioned on the scholars being actively concerned within the planning, implementation, and monitoring processes.
The Zayed Sustainability Prize has a three-stage analysis course of, starting with the due diligence carried out on all submissions to make sure that they meet the Prize’s analysis standards.
This identifies the certified entries and ends in the choice of eligible candidates. Following this, evaluations are undertaken by a Selection Committee consisting of category-specific panels of unbiased worldwide specialists. From this shortlist of candidates, the finalists are chosen after which despatched to the Prize Jury who unanimously elect the winners, throughout all 5 classes.
Winners of the 2024 Zayed Sustainability Prize will likely be introduced at an Awards Ceremony through the COP28 Climate Summit.
For extra info, go to www.ZayedSustainabilityPrize.com
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The Zayed Sustainability Prize is the UAE’s pioneering international award in sustainability and a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Established in 2008, the Zayed Sustainability Prize goals to drive sustainable growth and humanitarian motion by recognising and rewarding small and medium-sized enterprises, nonprofit organisations, and excessive faculties which can be delivering impactful, revolutionary and provoking options within the classes of Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.
In 2023, the Zayed Sustainability Prize is celebrating 15 years of delivering humanitarian influence across the globe. Through its 106 winners, the Prize has positively impacted the lives of over 378 million individuals throughout 150 international locations.
Contact: Reem Diab Reem.Diab@bcw-global.com
