Oxford Saïd Global Climate Tech Challenge 2026 for high school students and teachers worldwide (All‑expenses‑paid trip to Oxford)

Application Deadline:  17 August 2026 (11.59pm GMT)

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 Oxford Saïd Global Climate Tech Challenge. The program nvite high school students and teachers worldwide to use know-how to deal with the local weather disaster with daring, sensible options. Presented by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, this competitors empowers younger innovators and educators to design tech‑pushed concepts that handle one among humanity’s best challenges and to current them on the University of Oxford.

What individuals will acquire:

• Real‑world goal: apply know-how to pressing challenges in air air pollution, excessive climate, meals safety, biodiversity and water shortage
• Skills and credibility: sharpen downside‑fixing, teamwork and moral considering whereas constructing a portfolio recognised by Oxford Saïd
• A platform for influence: current to a world viewers in Oxford and be part of a rising community of friends, lecturers and practitioners

Entrants ought to reply to one among 5 key challenges, utilizing know-how as the inspiration for their concepts and lesson plans:

• Air air pollution
• Extreme climate occasions
• Food safety
• Biodiversity
• Water shortage

Requirements

Students

Entries should:

• be from a staff of 3-5 students aged 15-18 (particular person entries won’t be accepted)
• be submitted as a ten-page PowerPoint presentation (saved as PDF, ideally beneath 10mb)
• embody a video of up to three minutes in size
• embody a accomplished consent form for every scholar, signed by a father or mother or guardian

Teachers

Entries should:

• be from a person trainer (staff entries won’t be accepted)
• embody a sequence of lesson plans meant for your school’s curriculum (saved as PDF, ideally beneath 10mb)

Prizes

Top prizes

The successful scholar staff will win a full scholarship to the Future Climate Innovators summer school in 2027 in Oxford, taught by Oxford University’s world famend lecturers. (All bills paid)

The successful trainer will attend an Executive Education Programme at Oxford Saïd in Oxford, in 2027 (all bills paid).

Finalist prizes

All finalists can have an all-expenses paid trip to Oxford to current on the finals.

Participation

All students and trainer who’ve their submissions accepted will obtain a certificates of participation from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Benefits

• Completely free to enter
• All‑bills‑paid trip to Oxford this October for shortlisted scholar groups and teachers
• Top prizes: a full scholarship to the Future Climate Tech Innovators summer time school for the successful scholar staff and a spot on an Oxford Executive Education programme for the successful trainer
• A very world neighborhood: final 12 months’s competitors drew 1,600+ entries from 75 international locations

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Oxford Saïd Global Climate Tech Challenge