Deadline:
July 27, 2025
Location(s)
Online
Overview
Each year the RELX Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation. There is a $50,000 prize for the first place entry and a $25,000 prize for the second place entry. The winners also receive free access for one year to ScienceDirect, our Scientific, Technical & Medical business’ database of full text, scientific information, including almost 250,000 articles since 2000 in Environmental Sciences.
Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified need and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.
Details
The RELX Environmental Challenge (the “Challenge”) is a skill-based competition in which participants are asked to submit proposals outlining innovative ideas that advance access to safe water and/or sanitation where access is presently at risk.
Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water and include the following criteria:
- Be replicable, scalable and sustainable; and set a benchmark for innovation;
- Have practical applicability;
- Address non-discrimination/equity of access;
- Involve and impact a range of stakeholders;
- Have local/community-level engagement.
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Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
JUDGING CRITERIA
Applications will be assessed against the Challenge criteria, which are as follows: They must advance access to safe and sustainable water supply where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation. They must set a benchmark for innovation and demonstrate:
- Replicability, scalability and sustainability
- Practical applicability
- Non-discrimination/equity of access
- Involvement of, and impacts on, a range of stakeholders
- Local/community-level engagement
Applications will be reviewed against the Challenge criteria by the Challenge advisory group comprised of external water and sustainability specialists and/ or relevant internal colleagues. The advisory group will reduce the Applications to a shortlist of semi-finalists which will then be reviewed by an expert panel of external and internal judges.
The shortlist will be announced in or after August 2025. Shortlisted candidates will be given the opportunity to make presentations to the panel of judges. Winners will be announced in or after October 2025.
Dates
Deadline: July 27, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
PRIZES: A minimum of two (2) prizes will be awarded (total estimated value of all prizes is at least US$75,000) as follows: (i) a first prize in the amount of US$50,000 and (ii) a second prize in the amount of US$25,000, each to be used to launch, sustain or effectuate its respective winning proposal in accordance with the benchmarks in the judging criteria. Each winner will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility 2 and/or a Release of Liability/Publicity Release. Any portion of the prize unclaimed or unused by the winner will be forfeited and will not be substituted. Prizes are not transferable.
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