Taiwan OCA/GEEP Youth Innovation Challenge 2025 (Win a trip to Taiwan + a $1,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Taiwan OCA/GEEP Youth Innovation Challenge 2025. The Youth Innovation Challenge invites candidates from 15 to 30 years of age to suggest a resolution to deal with marine points, together with conservation, biodiversity, and marine particles. Solutions can incorporate a number of approaches however should embody environmental training. Solutions have to be progressive, possible, and knowledgeable by analysis.

Proposed options ought to use environmental training (EE) as a key technique. EE gives the abilities, values, attitudes, and behaviors that encourage people and teams to be considerate and engaged changemakers. As a key part of your resolution, EE can assist be certain that options are centered on empowering lengthy-time period change inside a group.

Benefits

Winning options obtain:

• international recognition.
• a $1,000 USD prize.
• a 2-day trip to Kaohsiung, Taiwan to attend the YIC award ceremony September 29–30, 2025.

Eligibility

The Youth Innovation Challenge is meant for younger leaders and innovators aged 15–30. Your progressive options should present a resolution to one of many following key areas, utilizing environmental training as a key part:

• Marine biodiversity and conservation: Managing, defending, and/or restoring marine biodiversity for its ecological, cultural, financial, and different values.
• Marine particles: Reducing and/or mitigating the consequences of marine particles, together with the monitoring, clear up, and recycling of marine particles, and educating communities about how to deal with these points.
• Public-private collaboration: Collaborating between the personal sector, governments, and the general public to defend marine environments. This would possibly embody concepts for cooperation between authorities and firms to fulfill company social accountability (CSR) targets, civic engagement alternatives for the general public to interact with authorities packages, and different initiatives that foster collaboration between private and non-private sectors.

Application

Applications are due in Submittable by June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM U.S. Eastern Time (find your time zone).

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For extra info, go to YIC.