PRIMA Young Innovators Award 2026 for Young Innovators from Southern Mediterranean Countries – YOA

Deadline: May 28, 2026

Applications are open for the 2026 PRIMA Young Innovators Award. The PRIMA Young Innovators Award 2026 is a Recognition Prize27, rewarding the creativity, management, and willpower of younger innovators from Southern Mediterranean Countries who’re shaping a extra sustainable future for the area.

If you’re desirous about growing options for a extra sustainable future, apply for the PRIMA Young Innovators Award 2026, which celebrates younger innovators who present sustainable options to handle social, environmental, and financial challenges within the Mediterranean area.

The Award goals to:

• Recognise younger innovators who’ve personally led or considerably contributed to the conception and implementation of an answer aligned with PRIMA’s mission;
  Promote youth management, initiative and downside-fixing capability in addressing Mediterranean sustainability challenges;
• Support improvements that show clear relevance to native Mediterranean contexts and reply to actual societal, environmental and financial wants;
• Encourage initiatives with measurable or credible anticipated impacts on environmental sustainability, livelihoods, or social inclusion;
• Foster replication, scalability and youth empowerment, together with inspiring and mentoring different younger innovators, with specific consideration to girls innovators.

The PRIMA Young Innovators Award 2026 will likely be awarded following a contest process and a clear analysis course of, as described within the Rules of Contest (RoC) printed on the PRIMA web site on the time of name launch. Two equal recognition prizes will likely be awarded to the 2 highest-ranked eligible purposes following analysis. Each prize quantities to EUR 10,000.

The Prize

Prize Amount(s): Two awards of EUR 10,000 every
Total Budget: EUR 20,000

Awardees will profit from excessive visibility and recognition, together with media protection, public acknowledgement and networking alternatives.

Eligibility

Applicants should fulfill all the following situations:

• Be pure individuals aged between 18 and 35 years on the deadline for submission;
• Be nationals and residents of one of many PRIMA Participating States bordering the Mediterranean Sea (Southern Mediterranean Countries), specifically Algeria*, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco*, Tunisia, or Türkiye;
• Submit an application both:
  • as a person younger innovator, or
  • as a gaggle of younger innovators by way of a joint application, offered that every one candidates fulfil all eligibility standards.

The Award is addressed solely to pure individuals. Applications based mostly on affiliation with or illustration of an organization, organisation, or different authorized entity aren’t foreseen and aren’t eligible.

In the case of joint purposes submitted by a gaggle of individuals:

• One applicant shall be designated because the lead participant for administrative and monetary functions;
• Eligibility checks shall be carried out on all candidates. If one applicant doesn’t meet the eligibility standards, the group shall be invited to exchange that applicant; failing this, the complete application shall be rejected;
• The prize shall be awarded collectively to all eligible candidates;

The prize cost shall be made solely to the lead participant, in accordance with the relevant guidelines. Any restoration of quantities shall be topic to the relevant authorized framework and, the place related, to the settlement of PRIMA-IS. In observe, recoveries ought to be restricted to circumstances of misrepresentation or fraud and can, in precept, be addressed to the lead participant. Any joint and a number of other obligations of different candidates shall be assessed on a case-by-case foundation and topic to settlement by the Legal Service.

Application

Applicants ought to assessment the Rules of Contest 2026 earlier than submitting an application.

Click here to apply.

For extra data, go to PRIMA Young Innovators Award.