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“Prize fund of US$3 million to amplify impact of winners in Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools categories”
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New Delhi, May 01, 2019 :
With exactly one month to go until the 30th May – submissions deadline, the Zayed Sustainability Prize today issued a final call to small and medium sized enterprises, non-profit organisations and high schools, around the world, to submit their entries for the 2020 edition of the UAE’s pioneering sustainability award. Now in its 12th annual award cycle since 2018, expanded in scope to include additional sustainability categories, alongside energy, the US$3 million annual Prize rewards organisations and high schools that demonstrate sustainable solutions across three core criteria: impact, innovation, and inspiration.
Small-to-medium sized enterprises and non-profit organisations must enter an existing sustainability solution with demonstrable impact in one of the Health, Food, Energy, or Water categories. The Global High Schools category invites student-led projects or proposals, based on one or more of those four sustainability themes, and provides funding to help develop or enhance their school or local community project.
Commenting on this year’s submissions process, Dr. Lamya Fawwaz, Director of the Zayed Sustainability Prize, said: “Since its establishment in 2008, the Prize has recognised 76 winners whose many achievements have had outstanding, direct and indirect, impact on 318 million lives. With last year’s evolution of the Prize categories to recognise more than just energy, the level of interest in the Health, Food, and Water categories has been extremely positive. Past winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize from India include India’s SECMOL and Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya schools, IDEI, and Orb Energy.
“With one month to go before the close of submissions, we are confident the 2020 awards will be one of the most competitive in the Prize’s history. We encourage interested organisations and high schools to submit their proposal and become part of an international community committed to building a global sustainability legacy.” The US$3 million prize fund is divided equally between the winners of the five categories, with each allocated US$600,000. In the Global High Schools category, the award recognises six winners, from six world regions, with each winning school eligible to claim up to US$100,000 in funding.
Profiles of India Winners 2018 & 2019
Ø Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) India Winners 2019: SECMOL in India, is an existing sustainable campus looking to further investment in solar energy, food gardens and hydroponics, with the aim of making the school fully self-sustainable in kitchen fuel, electricity, and water. The project has two phases; Phase 1 is designed to empower students so that they experiment, learn, build confidence and competency. There are also plans to develop maths and science labs. Student learning focus: To build students’ self-confidence, for them to become more comfortable with experimentation and technology, and to then take-away new sustainable farming methods back out into the community.
Ø SELCO FOUNDATION: 2018 India winner for the category Non-Profit Organization: The philosophy of SELCO Foundation is that decentralized renewable energy solutions need to be implemented holistically by combining technology, finance and social aspects to demonstrate the link between environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation. These solutions lead to an improved quality of life and increased incomes for the poor: with the underlying aim to create processes that can be replicated around the world for 3 billion poor people. Since 2010, SELCO Foundation has influenced grass-root level solutions and has also become a pioneering symbol of social innovation and sustainable energy for the poor across the world.
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