RELX Environmental Challenge
Entries are now open for the RELX Environmental Challenge, a skills-based competition in which participants are invited to submit proposals describing innovative ideas that advance access to safe drinking water and/or sanitation where access is currently under threat.
Deadline: 17-Jul-2022 Name of donor : RELX Amount of the grant : Not available Category: Awards, prizes and challenges |
Area(s) of interest |
The Challenge is open to individuals or organisations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors.
Projects must promote sustainable access to safe water where it is currently threatened and/or access to improved sanitation, and include the following criteria:
- Be reproducible, scalable and sustainable. and set the benchmark for innovation
- Practical applicability
- Combating non-discrimination and equity of access
- Involving and influencing a range of stakeholders
- Involvement at local/community level
Awards
- At least two (2) prizes will be awarded (total estimated value of all prizes is at least 75,000 $ US) as follows:
- a first prize of 50,000 $ US and
- a second prize of US$25,000,
- Each must be used to launch, maintain or complete its respective winning proposal in accordance with the reference criteria in the evaluation criteria.
- Each winner will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and/or a liability/publicity release.
- Any part of the prize not claimed or used by the winner will be forfeited and will not be substituted.
- Prizes are not transferable
Eligibility criteria - RELX Environmental Challenge
- The Challenge is only open to candidates aged 21 or over at the time of registration. Proof of residence and age may be required.
- Candidates may participate as :
- Individuals
- Teams of individuals, or
- Individually or as part of a team on behalf of an organisation, i.e. an educational or non-profit organisation
- institution or company (this last category, collectively "Organisations")
- Submission of an application with a proposal (the "Application") on behalf of a group of individuals or an Organization constitutes a representation by the person submitting the Application that he or she is authorized to represent the team submitting the Application and to distribute any prize money.
- Directors, officers and employees (and their immediate families and household members) of RELX Group plc (the "Sponsor") and its affiliated companies (collectively with the Sponsor, "RELX") and their respective advertising and promotional agencies are not eligible to enter the Challenge.
- The Challenge is subject to the applicable laws of an applicant's jurisdiction.
- The Sponsor is not responsible for any other eligibility restrictions, including but not limited to any restrictions established by the applicant's employer; applicants are encouraged to inquire about such restrictions prior to submitting an application.
- Void where prohibited.
- No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win the challenge.
For more information, please visit Relx.