Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize 2025 (up to $2,500) – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize 2025. ICIMOD is looking for to discover champions of nature within the area, reward their work, and speed up their impression by elevating their profile, by way of their annual Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize.

About the Award

In 2022, the Mountain Prize was renamed the Dr Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize in honour of former ICIMOD Director General Andreas Schild, a champion of the mountains of the world and the HKH area, whose impression stays within the hearts of these within the HKH whose lives he touched throughout his lengthy and illustrious profession.

What occurs within the HKH area has enormous implications for the folks and the remainder of the world. The snow, ice, and permafrost originating within the HKH present water to 240 million folks within the mountains and an additional 1.65 billion folks downstream. With the local weather disaster already devastating communities throughout the area, ICIMOD is working to construct the general public and political will for quicker motion and larger local weather ambition. The Mountain Prize is an effort to empower change and champion resilience within the face of the local weather disaster.

Prizes

Two prizes every value USD $2,500 will spotlight key contributions in:

• Glacier Preservation (Glacier Guardians): Honouring people or organisations that defend, study, and advocate for the world’s glaciers and the communities whose lives depend upon them. This consists of groundbreaking scientific analysis, neighborhood-primarily based conservation, impactful storytelling, and revolutionary consciousness campaigns that elevate glaciers on world and regional agendas
• Rangeland Restoration (Rangeland Champions): Recognising those that revitalise degraded rangelands, strengthen pastoral livelihoods, and promote sustainable grazing practices. This class celebrates native information, grassroots motion, and scalable options that restore mountain rangelands as vibrant, resilient ecosystems—highlighting the momentum in direction of IYRP 2026.

Eligibility

• Open to excellent people or organisations working with ICIMOD companions or inside ICIMOD’s Regional Member Countries (RMCs).
• Nominees should reveal clear, documented impacts on the grassroots or neighborhood degree.
• Activities should present potential for scalability, sustainability, and encourage wider regional studying.

Nomination

If a changemaker working on the grassroots in HKH nations (Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, or Afghanistan), nominate them right now by filling out the shape.

Click here to nominate

For extra data, go to ICIMOD.