Deadline:
June 16, 2024
Location(s)
Austria Online
Vienna
Overview
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.
Details
About the call for nominations
#ZeroCall25 opens on May 8, 2024 and will be 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.
Why nominate for #ZeroCall25?
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. Explore some of the opportunites here below:
- Zero Project Conference 2025: Each Awardee is invited to showcase their solution at #ZeroCon25, hosted on the grounds at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria. The Zero Project Conference has become a unique global meeting place to innovate for disability inclusion.
- Zero Project Network: Awardees receive access to the global Zero Project Network of 10,000+ experts, which includes leading organizations, such as the United Nations, international organizations, governments, multinational corporations, international funding agencies, foundations, and globally active non-government organizations.
- Zero Project Report: Each Awardee is incorporated into the Zero Project publication line, which consists of respective annual reports, sector reports, and other publications.
- Zero Project Database: Each Awardee is incorporated into the Zero Project Database, which is a public utility to search through 800+ innovative solutions and connect with innovators.
- Zero Project Scaling Solutions: A programme designed to support innovators in transferring and advancing solutions in new countries or regions. It's a joint initiative by the Essl Foundation, Fundación Descúbreme, GIZ, Atos, and Inclusive Creation.
- Zero Project Technology Forum: An exclusive event set up specifically to support the rapid scaling of proven disability innovation solutions, by matching innovators with potential partners and investors. A joint initiative with Unicredit Bank Austria, Google, Microsoft, and The Seneca Trust.
- Regional partners: Through its strategic regional partnerships with Fundación Descúbreme for Latin America, Youth4Jobs and Enable India for India, and SG Enable in Singapore, the Zero Project supports innovation processes and builds bridges between the global disability inclusion community and innovators from these respective world regions.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Inclusive Education - what solutions is the Zero Project looking for?
Article 24 – Education of the UN CRPD emphasises that persons with disabilities have the right to education and lifelong learning, without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity. The right to education as stated in Article 24 ensures:
- The full development of human potential and sense of dignity and self-worth, and the strengthening of respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and human diversity;
- The development by persons with disabilities of their personality, talents and creativity, as well as their mental and physical abilities, to their fullest potential;
- Enabling persons with disabilities to participate effectively in a free society.
Dates
Deadline: June 16, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
Among hundreds of ZeroCall nominations, a panel of experts and peer-reviewers will evaluate, scrutinize, provide feedback, and select outstanding practices and policies – the Zero Project Awardees.
In addition to international recognition, the renowned Zero Project Award provides numerous benefits to its Awardees, such as:
- Each Awardee will be invited to present at the annual Zero Project Conference at the United Nations (UN) Offices in Vienna, Austria.
- Awardees receive access to the Zero Project Network, which includes leading organizations, such as the UN, governments, the business sector, international funding agencies, foundations or globally active non-government organizations.
- Moreover, additional opportunities present themselves for Awardees that intend to scale internationally, or to replicate their solutions.
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
