Action for Nature International Young Eco-Hero Awards 2025 (up to $1,000)

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the Action for Nature International Young Eco-Hero Awards 2025. Action For Nature (AFN), a non-profit group, created the International Young Eco-Hero Awards to acknowledge and reward the profitable particular person environmental initiatives of younger folks ages 8 to 16. AFN encourages younger folks world wide to perform particular person environmental motion initiatives. They imagine that younger folks can have a optimistic impression on the setting and are very important in altering the way in which we stay on our planet.

Prizes

Winners will obtain:

• Public recognition and media press launch
• Cash prize up to $1,000
• Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Efforts to assist shield and protect the setting.
• Exclusive entry to the Eco-Hero Alumni Facebook Group.
• Just as importantly, winners will function position fashions for different younger folks by demonstrating that every particular person could make a distinction.

Eligibility

Applicants

• Applicants should be between 8 and 16 years outdated on February 28 of the applying 12 months.
• Projects submitted as a part of a Science Fair or Scouting Badge will solely be thought-about in the event that they embody extra environmental motion, academic outreach, or prolonged research past the unique scope.
• Previous winners, quick kinfolk of AFN board members, and energetic studying panel members or judges will not be eligible to apply.

Project

• The undertaking should give attention to environmental well being, advocacy, analysis, or the safety of the pure world.
• It must be action-based, self-initiated, and never an task from a instructor or different grownup.
• Projects should be a minimum of 6 months in length and both shut to completion or accomplished inside the final 12 months.
• For invention-based initiatives, candidates ought to have carried out trials prior to making use of.

Judging Criteria

Preference is given to initiatives of two+ years and/or ongoing initiatives.

The purposes will likely be judged in accordance to a number of standards, together with however not restricted to:

• originality
• problem
• group
• size of time devoted to the undertaking
• influencing/educating others
• use of out of doors sources (e.g. library, consultants, media, group leaders)
• diploma of success in reaching objectives
• the impression on the setting

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to International Young Eco-Hero Awards.