PROTEGO Marine Litter Innovation Challenge 2025 (up to €40,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 21, 2025

Applications are open for the PROTEGO Marine Litter Innovation Challenge 2025. The PROTEGO venture is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV, Germany), and carried out by adelphi in partnership with the Ghana Cleaner Production Center (GNCPC), Plastic Punch (PP), WASTE Africa and the Nigeria Climate Innovation Center (NCIC) in Ghana and Nigeria. This problem goals to empower organisations with modern options to stop marine litter within the Gulf of Guinea.

The purpose of the PROTEGO Accelerator is to help the event and scaling of impactful initiatives that handle the urgent problem of marine plastic air pollution in hotspot places throughout Ghana and Nigeria. Through a mixture of focused funding, tailor-made technical help, and strategic partnership alternatives, the programme bridges the hole between promising concepts and actual-world impression.

Benefits

• Project Funding: Access up to €40,000 to implement your modern resolution.
• Expert Advisory: Receive arms-on steerage and technical help from main consultants in waste administration, round financial system, and marine conservation.
• Visibility: Showcase your venture to a community of native and worldwide companions.
• Capacity Building: Benefit from tailor-made coaching and advisory help to strengthen your venture design and implementation.
• Partnership Opportunities: Build strategic collaborations with public, non-public, and group stakeholders.

Eligibility

This programme is designed for organisations dedicated to lowering marine litter and advancing sustainable waste administration in Ghana and Nigeria.

• Legally registered and working in Ghana or Nigeria (NGOs, firms, analysis establishments, or group organisations).
• Minimum of 1 12 months’s expertise engaged on marine litter or waste administration.
• Innovative venture thought addressing one of many PROTEGO hotspot places and challenges.
• Commitment to social, environmental, and financial impression, with a transparent plan for sustainability past the programme help.

Selection Criteria

• Relevance and Innovation: Contribution to marine litter prevention and potential for lengthy-time period impression.
• Sustainable Impact: Social, environmental, and financial advantages, together with gender and group inclusion.
• Feasibility: Clear plan for implementation and monetary administration throughout the given timeframe and funding.
• Local Stakeholder Engagement: Fit with native context and cooperation with stakeholders.
• Scalability: Potential for replication or scaling past the preliminary pilot.

Application

Download the application type right here and submit your application by 21 July 2025 to be a part of the PROTEGO Accelerator cohort through [email protected]

Download the application form

For extra info, go to PROTEGO Marine Litter Innovation Challenge.