The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering global award for rewarding impact,
innovation, and inspiration, has officially announced that the 2022 edition is
now open for submissions.
The Prize fund comes from the Abu Dhabi Government as a way to
honour and continue the sustainability and humanitarian legacy of the founding
father of the United Arab Emirates, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Established in 2008, the Prize has grown from an
ambitious, UAE leadership-driven initiative that sought to encourage global
action on the development of renewable energy solutions, into one of the most
significant and globally-renowned awards for affecting positive human and sustainable
impact.
Categories
The Zayed Sustainability Prize awards 5
categories:
- Health: This category
recognises organisations that can demonstrate innovative, impactful and
inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of health that
include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring access to essential
and affordable healthcare
- Ensuring access to maternal
and new-born healthcare
- Ending epidemics (AIDS,
Malaria, Tuberculosis etc.)
- Preventing and treating
water-borne, communicable and non-communicable diseases
- Reducing illness from
pollution, hazardous chemicals and contamination
- Food: This category recognises
organisations that can demonstrate innovative, impactful and inspirational
sustainability solutions in the areas of food that include, but are not limited
to:
- Decreasing hunger and
malnutrition
- Increasing agricultural or
other food processing productivity
- Enhancing sustainable food
production
- Energy: This category
recognises organisations that can demonstrate innovative, impactful and
inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of energy that
include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring access to affordable
and reliable clean energy
- Increasing production of clean
energy
- Improving energy efficiency
- Introducing new forms of clean
energy or other technology innovations
- Water: This category recognises
organisations that can demonstrate innovative, impactful and inspirational
sustainability solutions in the areas of water that include, but are not
limited to:
- Ensuring access to safe and
affordable drinking water
- Ensuring access to sanitation
and hygiene
- Increasing water use
efficiency
- Improving water quality
- Global High Schools
- The Global High Schools
category recognises high schools or secondary schools, from six global
geographic regions that propose innovative, impactful and inspirational
sustainability projects in the areas of health, food, energy and/or
water. The proposed project could be in one area (e.g. water) or a
combination of areas (e.g. energy, water, food, and health). The
application must be submitted by the students and supported by the school
management. The projects must:
- demonstrate how they meet the
three criteria: impact, innovation, inspiration; as explained in the
Evaluation Criteria section of this page;
- be able to be implemented and
operational within one to two years;
- benefit the school community
and/or their local/regional community for several years
- In each of the following six
global regions:
- The Americas
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Middle East & North
Africa
- Europe & Central Asia
- South Asia
- East Asia & Pacific
Prize Information
The total prize fund is USD 3 million,
distributed as follows:
- Health - $600,000
- Food - $600,000
- Energy - $600,000
- Water - $600,000
- Global High Schools - $600,000
– (divided amongst 6 Schools, awarding each up to US$100,000)
Eligibility Criteria
- The Zayed Sustainability Prize
is open to all entrants other than:
- Board members and employees of
Masdar; and
- Anyone who has been involved in
organising, promoting or judging the Prize.
- Masdar, the Selection Committee
and the Jury reserve the right and have full discretion to reject or not
select any submission for any reason that may, in the sole opinion of the
Selection Committee, the Jury or Masdar, damage the reputation of the
Prize, the UAE, Abu Dhabi or Masdar, or bring the Prize, the UAE, Abu
Dhabi or Masdar into disrepute. The decision of the Selection Committee,
the Jury or Masdar shall be final and no follow up correspondence shall be
replied to.
Post Date - 01-Feb-2021