Transformative Urban Coalitions Video Pitch Contest 2025 – YOA

Deadline: October 24, 2025

Applications are open for the Transformative Urban Coalitions Video Pitch Contest 2025. This yr, the competitors connects with the spirit of the thirtieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30), hosted underneath the Brazilian Presidency. COP 30 has embraced a Global Mutirão, a phrase rooted within the Tupi-Guarani language which means collective effort towards a single purpose, as its image.

It is about creating a sequence of motion that hyperlinks neighbourhood initiatives to metropolis plans, metropolis plans to nationwide methods and nationwide methods to shared world targets. Capacity-building is vital in supporting and driving these transformations. Whether it occurs via peer-to-peer studying, neighborhood schooling studying by doing when planting, portray or taking part in different native initiatives, capability-constructing develops the competencies individuals must form their very own cities.

They are in search of your tales. How are you and your companions working collectively to remodel your metropolis via capability-constructing? Are you coaching, educating or organizing neighbours to handle native challenges and create world alternatives? Are you serving to your metropolis grow to be extra sustainable, extra equitable or extra habitable?

They invite you to share these inspiring efforts via a 60-second video pitch. Show how capability-constructing and schooling are driving change the place you reside and the way your initiative is part of the broader Global Mutirão, a collective effort to show on a regular basis city transformation into world local weather motion.

Awards

The Transformative Urban Coalitions companions will publish the outcomes of the video contest in November 2025 via all companions’ social media channels.

• Best video pitch: A fee of $800 USD
• Second greatest video pitch: A fee of $500 USD
• Third greatest video pitch: A fee of $300 USD

More Benefits

• The greatest movies will likely be showcased at the seventh Capacity-building Hub, at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil.  
• Winners will even obtain unique entry to a web based capability-constructing coaching centered on Transformative Communication, designed to strengthen their communication abilities and amplify the influence of their work.

Eligibility

Your video pitch should:

• Be not than 60 seconds.
• Showcase a collective effort for capability-constructing and spotlight the individuals, partnerships and actions driving change.
• Show how your initiative connects to the larger image by explaining the way it contributes to a stronger, extra inclusive and extra local weather-resilient metropolis and the way it hyperlinks to world motion.
• Inspire others to behave by sharing why this transformation issues and the way it empowers your neighborhood.
• Be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. However, all entries should embody English subtitles. If including subtitles just isn’t potential, individuals should present a excessive-high quality transcript of the unique video.
• Be accompanied by a brief-written story (100–150 phrases) that briefly describes the initiative and its influence.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Video Pitch Contest.