Prizes & Awards
How to Apply for SADC Media Awards 2021/2022
Applications are open for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards 2022. The SADC Council of Ministers approved the establishment of the SADC Media Awards to recognise best media work in the region. Since 1996 the SADC Secretariat has been coordinating the Media Awards to encourage the media in the Region to play a leading […]
Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2022 for early-stage entrepreneurs
Calling all #TechForGood Startups around the world! Do you have an early-stage innovative technology solution that could solve the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems? Apply for the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2022. The 6th annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to recognize new business ideas that leverage technology for social impact from […]
UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize 2021 for the Use of ICT in Education ($25,000 prize)
Nominations are invited for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education 2021. The 2021 edition of the Prize will award projects that have built and implemented technology-enabled public learning systems and programs that effectively ensured the continuity and quality of learning for all. The projects must ensure the […]
How to Apply for USIP Women Building Peace Award 2022
The USIP Women Building Peace Award recognizes women peacebuilders from fragile and conflict-affected countries who are leading efforts to prevent conflict, challenge violence, and find peacebuilding solutions to make a difference in their communities, countries, and/or internationally. By nominating a woman peacebuilder, you are honoring her accomplishments, validating her dedicated work to the peacebuilding field, […]
How to Apply for Young Global Changers Recoupling Awards 2022
Are you part of such a project or initiative? Are you heading an innovative social start-up? Are you trying to change your organization from the inside? Are you supporting people in need? Are you pushing or advocating for change? Apply now for the Young Global Changers Recoupling Awards 2022. Over the last four decades, we have been […]
How to Apply for Wellcome Sanger Institute Prize Competition 2022
The Sanger Prize is an outreach competition aimed at undergraduate students who live and study in low or middle income countries. The prize was set up in 2002 after John Sulston, Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz won a Nobel Prize for their work on C.elegans. John Sulston wanted to donate his part of the prize […]
How to Apply for J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Awards
The J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Awards is one of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. Established in 1998, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the work of the awards’ Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake, J. Anthony […]
How To Apply for Sankalp Africa Awards 2022
The Sankalp Awards is a celebration of outstanding social entrepreneurs and a showcase of innovative and successful businesses globally. They believe entrepreneurs are the driving force that can transform the unprecedented challenges into a new playing field; to turn the civilization towards a paradigm that balances profits with collective societal good. At this historic […]
APPLY: Eiger Foundation Photobook of the Year Awards 2022 ($20,000 prize)
The Awards is an annual prize offered to the best photographic publication by a photographer from, or working in, Africa. Initiated by the Eiger Foundation in September 2021, the Eiger Foundation Photobook of the Year Awards celebrates the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with a focus on the African continent. Prizes A […]
Call for Nomination: ICTP Spirit of Abdus Salam Award 2022 (€1,000 prize)
Nominations for the International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Spirit of Abdus Salam Award 2022 are now open. The award seeks to recognize any ICTP member (scientists or non-scientists) who has worked to further Abdus Salam’s humanitarian passion and vision for the cooperation, promotion and development of science and technology in the developing world. The award was set up […]