UNOPS Blueing the Black Sea Eco-Innovation Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: November 14, 2025

Applications are open for the UNOPS Blueing the Black Sea Eco-Innovation Challenge 2025. The Eco-Innovation Challenge (EIC) is part of the Blueing the Black Sea (BBSEA) undertaking, designed to draw daring concepts that sort out air pollution in the Black Sea. They invite innovators from the area and past to deliver their options to the forefront.

By harnessing artistic vitality from round the world, the EIC transforms nice concepts into highly effective motion, offering the funding and steering to make an actual difference for the Black Sea’s future. 

They are searching for tasks that deal with:

• Agriculture & Livestock Runoff: Eutrophication brought on by agricultural runoff of pesticides and fertilizers or livestock waste.
• Municipal Wastewater: Eutrophication brought on by underneath handled or untreated municipal wastewater.
• Chemical and Industrial Pollution: Contamination from industrial actions, together with non-hazardous battle-associated air pollution.
• Marine Litter: Plastic and different stable waste, together with non-hazardous battle-associated air pollution.

Funding

 Participants could apply via two funding home windows:

• BBSEA Focus Country Window (Georgia, Moldova, Türkiye): Grants of USD $50,000–$300,000 plus 12 months of technical help.
• Greater Black Sea Window: In-kind technical help value as much as USD $20,000 for early-stage options.

Eligibility

• Open to people, firms, organizations, startups, NGOs, universities, and analysis establishments from any World Bank-eligible nation.
• Depending in your stage of innovation and institutional capability, you’ll be able to apply underneath both the BBSEA Focus Country Window (grant) or the Greater Black Sea Window (technical help).
• Individuals can apply, significantly underneath the Greater Black Sea Window which doesn’t require institutional grant administration capability. However, the BBSEA Focus Country Window requires candidates to be legally registered organizations with the monetary and authorized capability to handle a grant.
• Global candidates are welcome. However, for the BBSEA Focus Country Window, you will need to suggest implementation in Georgia, Moldova, or Türkiye. Partnering with native organizations is inspired.

Application

Submit your EOI by way of electronic mail to [email protected] with the topic line: EOI for the Eco-Innovation Challenge. While use of the Annex A application kind is strongly beneficial for completeness, it’s possible you’ll submit in any format that clearly addresses the required parts.

For extra data, see FAQ and go to BBSEA Eco-Innovation Challenge.