Shape the Future Challenge 2025: Turn Your Climate Solution Into Reality!

Are you a younger changemaker between 15 and 24 years previous with a daring thought to sort out local weather change? Are you able to collaborate with passionate friends, study from world-class mentors, and take your answer to a worldwide stage? The Shape the Future Challenge 2025, powered by Moonshot Pirates, is your alternative to show your imaginative and prescient into motion—and even win an unforgettable innovation journey to Dubai!

This is greater than a problem—it’s a launchpad for the subsequent era of local weather innovators.

About the Shape the Future Challenge

The Shape the Future Challenge is a worldwide on-line innovation competitors that empowers youth aged 15 to 24 to develop daring, impactful, and sustainable options for the local weather disaster. Over 4 thrilling weeks, you’ll:

Form worldwide groups
Learn from world specialists and mentors
Develop and pitch your local weather answer
Compete for a visit to Dubai, the place you’ll discover the coronary heart of world innovation and sustainability

This yr’s focus is Climate Action, in step with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Why Join?

Learn vital Twenty first-century abilities: Ideation, design considering, storytelling, entrepreneurship, and sustainability.
Gain mentorship from prime professionals: Tech founders, local weather scientists, enterprise leaders, and extra.
Collaborate throughout borders: Team up with friends from round the world and work towards a shared purpose.
Amplify your voice and concepts: Present your venture in entrance of a worldwide viewers, together with impact-driven organizations.
Win the expertise of a lifetime: An all-expenses-covered journey to Dubai, together with workshops, innovation excursions, and reference to sustainability leaders.

Challenge Timeline

Apply (June 6 – June 30, 2025)

Open to people and groups
No thought but? No downside—you may nonetheless be a part of and discover teammates later.
All accepted individuals might be invited to the Moonshot Pirates on-line problem area by July 1.

Team Up (July 3 – July 6, 2025)

Attend the Opening Ceremony on July 3
Participate in enjoyable networking occasions to attach with changemakers
Form your crew of two–6 members by July 6

Develop Your Idea (July 3 – July 31, 2025)

Design a radical, possible, and impactful local weather answer
Attend professional mentoring classes and workshops
Submit your ultimate venture and 1-minute pitch video by July 31 (3 PM UTC)

Final Pitching (August 4 – August 21, 2025)

7 finalist groups might be chosen by way of a mix of on-line voting and professional evaluation
Finalists current their pitch throughout the on-line Pitching Ceremony on August 21
Winner receives an invite to Dubai in early 2026

What’s at Stake?

Grand Prize: Dubai Innovation Trip (2026)

Return airfare out of your nearest main worldwide airport
Accommodation and transportation in Dubai
Visits to cutting-edge innovation hubs and inexperienced startups
Hands-on workshops and networking with local weather pioneers

Bonus Opportunities:

Chance to pitch at Future Port Youth 2025 in Prague
Global publicity, mentorship, and development alternatives lengthy after the problem ends

Who Can Apply?

Youth aged 15–24, from any nation
Fluent in English (the total problem is carried out in English)
Passionate about fixing real-world local weather points
No expertise vital—only a dedication to study and collaborate

Parental consent is required for finalists beneath 18 years previous.

What Kind of Ideas Are We Looking For?

Your venture ought to deal with a minimum of one UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), with a particular concentrate on local weather change. Here are just a few examples of doable instructions:

Clean power improvements
Green transportation & mobility
Waste discount & round financial system
Food safety & sustainable agriculture
Smart cities & sustainable housing

Projects may be submitted as ideas or working prototypes. Judges will assess submissions primarily based on:

Impact
Radicality
Feasibility
Wow issue

What Will You Learn?

The problem gives academic movies, expert-led workshops, and mentoring classes masking:

How to establish world challenges
Ideation and brainstorming
Effective storytelling and pitching
Team collaboration
Strategic venture planning
How to construct sustainable enterprise fashions

Most actions take 20 min to 1.5 hours/day, designed to suit simply round faculty or work.

Mentoring & Support

Get entry to a worldwide pool of mentors together with:

Sustainability leaders
Engineers and startup founders
Designers and technologists
Marketing and fundraising specialists

Teams can e-book particular person classes with mentors and obtain tailor-made suggestions all through the problem.

FAQs (Highlights)

Free to affix
Conducted solely in English
Individual application required—even when making use of as a crew
International groups inspired
Laptop and steady web really helpful
Your thought stays yours—however may additionally be promoted by problem companions

Check the full FAQ here.

How to Apply

Ready to make your mark?

Apply here by June 30, 2025

For extra alternatives, go to opportunitiesforyouth.org.