UNIDIR Outer Space Security Conference Youth Video Competition 2026 (Fully-funded trip to Geneva) – YOA

Deadline: June 21, 2026

Applications are open for the UNIDIR Outer Space Security Conference Youth Video Competition 2026. This yr, UNIDIR is as soon as once more partnering with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) to launch the OS26 Youth Video Competition—an OPPORTUNITY for younger leaders and future area stewards to actively contribute to this international dialogue.

The Outer Space Treaty, the inspiration of worldwide area legislation, emphasizes that outer area shall be explored and used for the good thing about all nations, no matter their stage of improvement, and shall be the province of all humankind. In this spirit, the OS26 Youth Video Competition is designed to amplify numerous voices and be certain that youth views are included within the multilateral area safety dialog. Winners can be invited to Geneva to current their work in particular person, with their movies featured through the convention and promoted throughout UNIDIR platforms.

This competitors goals to:

• Promote significant youth engagement in international area safety discussions.
• Showcase artistic and numerous views on the way forward for area safety.
• Encourage the subsequent era to form inclusive area governance.

Theme

UNIDIR invites people aged 18–25 from all over the world to submit a 1–3 minute authentic video on the next immediate:

Maintaining outer area as a peaceable surroundings is dependent upon the technical resilience of the architectures and methods we launch. Innovations in design can enable us to share this surroundings securely and sustainably, and so the work of the subsequent era of engineers and scientists is a crucial driver of worldwide stability. We invite you to lead this dialog by showcasing your technical analysis and explaining what improvements to area methods you suppose may contribute to a safer and sustainable area for all humankind.

This yr’s immediate invites you to showcase your authentic analysis that illustrates how particular updates to area structure can clear up trendy safety and sustainability dilemmas. They are significantly inquisitive about how your work addresses the evolving menace panorama to be certain that area property stay safe from disruption and sustainable for future operations.

Your work may deal with the event of shared technical requirements, integrity of knowledge hyperlinks, cyber-resilient structure, enhanced transparency designs, open-supply monitoring frameworks, and past. By figuring out particular weak factors in present methods and proposing potential options, you reveal how technical innovation generally is a instrument for international stability. Show us how your work gives the important blueprints for a safe, inclusive, and sustainable area frontier.

Prizes

• A totally funded trip to Geneva, Switzerland to attend the OS26 convention in particular person, together with round-trip economic system airfare, lodging at some point of the OS26, and per diems to cowl some meals throughout these dates.
• Lightning discuss premiere of the winners movies through the convention with the chance to current your video to a world viewers.
• Selected movies can be featured on the UNIDIR web site.
• Selected winners can have a possibility to remodel their video and OS26 expertise right into a transient commentary to be printed on the UNIDIR web site.

Eligibility

• Open to people aged 18–25 from any nation.
• Only one submission per particular person.
• Submissions should be authentic content material created by the entrant.
• Generative AI can’t be used to create the core video narrative, script, or presenter likeness. However, AI-assisted instruments could also be used solely for technical visualizations, corresponding to producing schematics, conceptual design renderings, or animations of bodily sequences (e.g., docking maneuvers), supplied the underlying engineering idea is completely the entrant’s authentic work and using AI is disclosed within the submission type. Fully AI-generated movies or imagery used to bypass authentic artistic effort are strictly prohibited and can lead to disqualification.

Technical necessities

• Videos should be submitted in .mp4 format, with audio, visuals, and subtitles in a single file.
• Any language could also be used, however movies not in English should embody English closed captions.
• Entries should adjust to relevant legal guidelines and be freed from copyrighted materials not owned by the creator.

Selection Criteria

Submissions can be evaluated based mostly on:

• Originality and creativity
• Relevance to the theme
• Clarity and technical high quality
• Awareness of area safety points
• Engaging and considerate supply

All submissions can be reviewed in accordance to the pre-established standards by a numerous panel of judges drawn from throughout UNIDIR and CIGI. The judging course of is designed to guarantee equity, steadiness, and transparency, with consideration to geographic, gender, and disciplinary range.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to UNIDIR Youth Video Competition.