UNU AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications are open for the UNU AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition 2025. The UNU Global AI Network is happy to launch the AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition, a world science and expertise innovation competitors with the objectives of empowering social innovation, advancing youth growth, and addressing sustainable growth challenges by way of synthetic intelligence (AI).

Each yr, the competitors will deal with a serious theme, with tracks devoted to particular areas. The inaugural theme for 2025 is AI for the Environment: Ecological Environment and Green Transition Challenges, with tracks on:

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Environmental Protection and Conservation
• Clean Energy
• AI for Less Developed Countries

The competitors will function modern options with excessive expertise readiness ranges (TRL), prepared for commercialization in China.

Benefits

• A complete progress-assist bundle, together with monetary assist, business and funding matchmaking, and worldwide promotion, shall be offered to the successful groups. In addition to a financial award, the winners can have the OPPORTUNITY to pilot their options in China, fostering actual-world functions of their expertise.
• A particular Macau Prize will acknowledge distinctive entries from Macau, reinforcing the area’s position in fostering social innovation and youth engagement in sustainable growth.

Eligibility

• Companies, organizations, teams and people from all world wide could register. There aren’t any restrictions primarily based on background or nationality.
• The expertise maturity of the taking part tasks should be above Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 2, that means they’ve accomplished the laboratory stage, meet the situations for on-the-floor validation in actual-world situations, have the expertise readiness degree that’s near commercialization, and have a sure diploma of innovation and market potential.
• For tasks from a longtime enterprise, the corporate ought to have been based lower than 10 years.
• Applications and accompanying supplies should be submitted in English, and the analysis can even be performed in English.

Application

The jury will include famend teachers, business professionals, and institutional traders from international establishments.

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For extra info, go to AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition.