Call for Applications: Earthna Prize 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Earthna Prize 2026. The Earthna Prize honors and promotes the essential function of the data handed down by generations in addressing the urgent environmental problems with our time. The prize strives to help initiatives and organizations that protect, combine, and undertake conventional data and cultural heritage to deal with modern sustainability challenges.

First launched on Earth Day, April 22, 2024, Earthna Prize attracted a whole lot of functions from over 100 nations, affirming Earthna’s conviction that conventional data and cultural heritage aren’t merely objects of preservation however lively assets for modern sustainability issues.

The inaugural Earthna Prize winners and finalists, introduced in 2025, mirror the vary of approaches the Prize seeks to raise, from water conservation and ancestral ecological fashions to conventional structure and urbanism, neighborhood-led fisheries administration, and extra.

Benefits

• The winners of the 2027 Earthna Prize will obtain USD $250,000 every to help the event of their venture/initiatives or share a pool prize of $1million USD.

Eligibility

• Earthna invites organizations and groups that search to curate, administer, perpetuate, and protect programs of conventional data. This encompasses a various vary of organizations, together with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), neighborhood-based mostly organizations (CBOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and personal sector entities.
• The Earthna Prize acknowledges champions who actively promote and apply the inclusion of conventional data in growing options and supporting policymaking processes. They additionally worth efforts targeted on preserving and adopting conventional sustainability data and practices. Organizations that help underserved communities on the native degree of their respective nations are additionally inspired to apply. Moreover, they search candidates who reply to the wants of native communities by fostering relationships of belief, facilitating networking, and selling collaboration between native and world processes. 

Applicant

• Potential Earthna Prize candidates can solely be initiatives/initiatives underneath a legally included entity.
• Applicants for the Earthna Prize will be from any area of the world, together with initiatives operational in 44 economies designated by the United Nations because the least developed nations (LDCs).

Multiple Applications 

• An group or applicant might submit a couple of application for totally different initiatives/initiatives.

Selection Criteria

For your application to be thought-about eligible, your submission should adhere to the next standards:

• At least one devoted staff member have to be out there to speak with the Earthna Prize staff.
• The initiatives/initiatives have to be underneath a legally included entity.
• The application have to be in English.
• Accurate contact info for supporters have to be offered

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Earthna Prize.