Contests

Application Deadline: August 6th 2019 This is your chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Malaysia and be personally mentored by award-winning filmmaker Jenny Nichols. You could be capturing staggering …

Lockheed Martin and DRL are challenging teams to develop an AI-enabled framework, powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for AI at the edge, that can navigate a fully autonomous drone …

Application Deadline: June 27, 2019 KST World Water Challenge is an international contest for water solutions. As a follow up activity of the 7th World Water Forum in 2015, it …

Application Deadline : July 24, 2019 The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in partnership with the National Universities Commission (NUC) is pleased to announce the theme for the Nigerian Economic …

Leading development finance institutions (DFIs)including FinDev Canada, CDC Group(CDC)of the United Kingdom,Proparco of France and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) of the United States along with the Mastercard Foundation,announced …

Application Deadline: 31 July 2019. To commemorate these “triple anniversaries,” the inaugural UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival will be held in Florence 25 – 27 October 2019. The festival will showcase …

Application Deadline: Wednesday 31 July 2019. Do you want to open your own business, but don’t know where to start? Are you struggling to get your business off the ground? Do …

Application Deadline: July 28th 2019 The Global Youth Video Competition is co-organized by the GEF-UNDP Small Grants Programme, and the secretariats of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the …

Application Deadline: January 14, 2020 at 13.00 (GMT) The world’s leading awards for artists working in contemporary photography Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the internationally acclaimed Sony World Photography …

Application Deadline: September 13th 2019 The Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge is a worldwide renowned science & technology startup competition designed specifically to address the needs of deep tech entrepreneurs across several different …

Application Deadline: July 21st 2019 Convinced that collective intelligence and gamification are great tools for innovation, Automation Anywhere pioneered Bot Games. Bot Games gathers developers, project managers, business process enthusiasts, …

Application Deadline: August 30th 2019 New methods of mobility (electric cars, scooters, etc.) are emerging in our cities and our countryside alongside with the need to protect the environment while …

Application Deadline: June 30th 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge offers the opportunity for the bright minded companies to propose the best-in-class products and solutions within the Industrial Automation domain to international …

Application Deadline: December 31st 2019 UNHCR and Addis Ababa University’s Centre for Human Rights (CHR-AAU) invite African university students at the graduate (Masters or Doctoral)level to submit research essays on …

Application Deadline: July 28th 2019 From 24 May to 28 July 2019, young people from around the world can showcase their actions to combat climate change by submitting a video to the …

Application Deadline: May 31st 2019 There is a new wave of youth activism and it is going to change the world forever! UNFPA and AfriYAN Ghana believe in this new …

Application Deadline: 31ST JANUARY 2020 The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) is engaging young legal minds in generating innovative ideas on issues of law reform. As from 2019, the …

Application Deadline: 2nd September, 2019 (GMT 0) Samsung Engineering jointly with UN environment would like to launch “The 12th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition” inviting youth all over the world to …

Application Deadline: Friday, 6 September 2019, at 11:59 p.m., Vienna Time (CET) Students and professionals below the age of 35 can now submit entries to the IAEA’s 2020 International Essay …

Application Deadline: June 17, 2019 Shelter Tech Kenya, a first of its kind in Africa, is a six-month milestone-based accelerator program supporting early stage businesses and scale-ups in the affordable …

Application Deadline: 7 June 2019 Do you have photography skills? Whether you are an amateur or professional, don’t miss your chance to enter the UNESCO-UNEVOC #SkillsinAction Photo Competition! This competition …

Application Deadline: May 27th 2019 Faces2Hearts is a life-changing experience, which will take 20 enthusiastic Vloggers (video bloggers) to unusual destinations across the world to report on how the European …

Application Deadline: June 30th 2019 The ICAO Innovation ‘Concepts Competition’ is seeking for proposal from 13-17 year-olds for new aircraft types, or new types of operations, including descriptions of how …

Application Deadline: July 8, 2019 The Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge, a key component of National Geographic and Sky Ocean Ventures’ partnership to reduce plastic waste, asks problem solvers from around the …

Application Deadline: 30 June, 2019. The ICAO 2019 Prototypes Competition is for anyone 18-and-over. It’s seeking maturely thought-out-3-D renderings (still images and/or video) of either new aircraft types or new …

Application Deadline: May 31st 2019 Showcase your work globally! This photo contest provides you, as a young changemaker, a global platform to show the impact of your changemaking activities. We …

Application Deadline: May 16th 2019 The PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge (PZCCC) is a CSR initiative of PZ Cussons Nigeria limited, open to only SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (SSS) students schooling in …

Application Deadline: Friday, 21st June, 2019 at 17:00 hours (GMT) African citizens between the age of 18 and 25 years are invited to submit their essays for this year’s Leadership Essay …

Application Deadline: Sunday, 19 May 2019 The YouthStartCT Challenge is a start-up programme which aims to contribute to skills development and innovation, as well as encouraging entrepreneurship in Cape Town.   …

Application Deadline: May 5th 2019 Are you an innovator between the ages of 18 and 35 who develops solutions to enhance your community, city, region, country? Are you committed to …

Application Deadline: August 25th 2019 Turkish Airlines (TA) Skylife 3rdInternational Photography Contest”. The contest is organized by Turkish Airlines, and will be carried out by Turkish Airlines. Are you ready …

Application Deadline: 24 June at 16:00 CET (4:00 PM CET) Since the late Middle Ages, the notion of the “Renaissance Man” has celebrated those people who are well-rounded, broadly knowledgeable …

Application Deadline: April 25th 2019 Since 2010, Ad Age has celebrated rising industry talents with our annual Young Creatives Cover Contest. Each year, we ask creatives and execs under 30 …

Application Deadline:April 18, 2019. The Penn Institute for Urban Research invites you to participate in a photo contest on the theme of urban informality. In particular, we are interested in photos that …

Application Deadline: April 30, 2019 at 12 midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST). In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly decided that, as from 2009, June 8 would be designated by …

Application Deadline: May 3rd 2019 The National Geographic Travel Photo Contest is accepting entries. Harness the power of photography and share your stunning travel experiences from around the globe. Enter …

Application Deadline: April 9, 2019 Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source …

Application Deadline: April 22, 2019 at 11:59pm EST. Each year, InterAction’s photography contest focuses on incredible humanitarian and development work.  InterAction’s encourage you to submit your most powerful photos that illustrate …

Application Deadline: April 13th 2019 In 2017 and 2018 alone, populations around the world were exposed to heatwaves (in Japan and the United Kingdom, for example), severe flooding (in China, …