ELIGIBILITY:

No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win the challenge.

The Challenge is open only to applicants 21 years of age or over at their time of entry with access to the internet and an email account during the Challenge Period (defined below) and subsequent Prize Award Period

Proof of residency and age may be required. Applicants may participate as (i) individuals, (ii) teams of individuals, or (iii) individually or in teams on behalf of an organisation, i.e. an educational or not-for-profit institution or a corporation (the latter category, collectively “Organisations”).

The RELX Environmental Challenge is open to individuals or organisations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation, and include the following criteria:

Be replicable, scalable and sustainable. and set a benchmark for innovation

Have practical applicability

Address non-discrimination/equity of access

Involve and impact a range of stakeholders

Have local/community-level engagement

These are the criteria against which projects will be assessed. Early-stage projects are preferred.

Get in touch at environmental.challenge@relx.com. 

Please read the Environmental Challenge Official Rules before applying.

BENEFIT:

There is a $50,000 prize for the first-place entry and a $25,000 prize for the second-place entry. The winners also receive free access for one year to ScienceDirect, our Scientific, Technical & Medical business’ database of full-text scientific information, including almost 250,000 articles since 2000 in environmental sciences.