World Food Forum Transformative Research Challenge 2025 (up to USD $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: May 9, 2025

Applications are open for the World Food Forum Transformative Research Challenge 2025. The WFF Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) is a worldwide competitors designed to empower younger researchers to develop progressive and impactful options to remodel agrifood methods. Since its inception in 2021, the World Food Forum (WFF) Youth Innovation Lab has partnered with main organizations in agrifood analysis and United Nations Agencies, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to deal with crucial challenges by means of a worldwide platform.

The TRC helps members to develop analysis proposals that lead to actionable and tangible options. Finalists pitch their concepts on the WFF flagship occasion held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. Over the years, the TRC has collaborated with 18 distinguished organizations, together with Wageningen University and Research (WUR), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), EIT Food and CGIAR, to masking greater than prize classes on crucial agrifood methods matters. Out of over 2 000 purposes submitted globally, the TRC has awarded greater than USD 500 000 in grants and in-sort assist to 71 youth-led progressive analysis initiatives.

Benefits

• Research funding: Winning groups obtain up to USD $10,000 in analysis funding to implement their analysis initiatives. In addition, one crew can be chosen from the winners of every TRC class as the general winner of the 2025 Transformative Research Challenge and can be awarded a further USD $10,000 in analysis funding.
• Global visibility: Finalist groups obtain recognition for his or her progressive work by means of the WFF web site and social media channels, showcasing their initiatives to a worldwide viewers.
• Networking alternatives: Finalist groups join with a worldwide community of younger leaders, agrifood specialists and representatives from the private and non-private sectors, together with the United Nations.
• Capacity growth: Semi-finalist groups obtain skilled steering to strengthen their expertise in analysis proposal growth.
• Invitation to FAO headquarters: Finalist groups are invited to current their analysis on the TRC Finals held at FAO headquarters in Rome in October 2025, in entrance of a excessive-degree jury and a worldwide viewers through reside stream on a spread of platforms together with UN Web TV.
• Post awards assist: Finalists are invited to apply for the WFF Youth Food Lab incubator programme. Winning groups may additionally obtain continued assist to additional develop and implement their analysis proposals.

Eligibility

• Open to groups of at the very least 3 and up to 5 people (Entrants). All crew members should be between the ages of 18 and 35 on the time of submission of their Concept Note.
• All candidates should maintain at the very least a bachelor’s diploma in a discipline associated to agrifood methods, which incorporates however shouldn’t be restricted to areas akin to agriculture, meals science, environmental science, sustainable growth or different associated disciplines.
• FAO workers and their fast relations (spouses, dad and mom, kids, siblings and their respective spouses, no matter the place they reside) or individuals residing in the identical households of such workers, whether or not associated or not, are usually not eligible to enter the competitors. 
• Entrants can solely submit unique works for which they’re the only creators and copyright holders. In the case of a bunch of authors, the names and ages of all authors should be listed and can be thought-about as a single Entrant.

Application

Submit your application earlier than May 9, 2025 at 24:00 (PDT).

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For extra data, go to WFF Transformative Research Challenge.