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ARRELL GLOBAL FOOD INNOVATION AWARDS

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Application Deadline: 12:00 PM on April 24.

LOCATION: Canada

Awarded annually since 2018, the Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize unique approaches and achievements of individuals and organizations around the globe. The prizes of $100,000 can be awarded in research innovation and community engagement innovation.

Nominations are now open for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Community Award.

ELIGIBILITY:

Citizens of any country are eligible to apply. Nominations may come from private companies, academic institutions, government units, charitable foundations, and not-for-profit organizations.

Nominations may come from private companies, academic institutions, governmental units, charitable foundations, and not-for-profit organizations. In the case of multiple Page 2 of 3 nominations from a single organization, only the one with the latest date will be accepted.

Academic institutions, governmental units, or private/public organizations may submit a nomination for the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award. Each organization may submit one application for the award. Nomination packages are strictly confidential, and the identities of nominators, nominating organizations, and nominees are kept in strict confidence, except for the winner.

The criteria for awarding the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award is as follows:

The individual or group being nominated will have made exceptionally significant and documented contributions at the community level in markedly improving nutrition, including access to or distribution of food.

The nomination package must clearly demonstrate alignment with our mission, which is to produce more healthy and nutritious food with less environmental impact and economic inequality, “more with less”.

The nomination package should not be a proposal or a request for funding.

Nominees must be able to attend the award ceremony and ancillary events.

Nominations must be submitted by 12:00 PM on April 24.

BENEFIT:

The Arrell Global Food Innovation Award comes with the following terms:

The prize will be worth $125,000 CAD comprising a $100,000 cash award for the use of the recipient and up to $25,000 for travel and accommodation of the recipient, administered by the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph.

An award citation and a commemorative item will also be presented.

The recipient is expected to participate in a program of events. In particular, the award recipient may be asked to attend the next Arrell Food Summit and other engagements.

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BBC WORLD SERVICE & BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL AUDIO DRAMA COMPETITION 2026

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Application Deadline: 11.00 GMT 4 June 2025

LOCATION: United Kingdom

Welcome to the BBC World Service & British Council International Audio Drama Competition 2026. Please read the Competition Rules and abide by them. If a play is either too short or excessively long, it may be disqualified.

ELIGIBILITY:

Entry is only open to anyone who at 4 June 2025 is (a) over the age of 18 and (b) not considered to be a resident of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man (“UK”). Professional and previously published writers are eligible to enter, but this is not a requirement of entry. We may require proof of eligibility.

Entrants must not be BBC, BBC Group company, or British Council employees, close relatives of such employees or any person connected to the competition. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested.

Entrants should write an audio drama script of approximately forty to fifty minutes’ length on any subject of their choice.

The entrants warrant, by submitting scripts, that each drama
is the original work of the entrants and does not infringe the rights of any other party
is not an adaptation of an earlier work (for example, a novel)
will not be under contract for, or have been professionally produced in, any medium (an informal script-reading is acceptable; a script-reading with a professional director and in front of a non-paying audience is acceptable, but a performance involving payment to actors and/or a paying audience is not) before 30 September 2026
has not been created or developed with the use of generative AI tools

A breach of these warranties will result in disqualification from the competition.

The winning writers will be deemed to have entered into an undertaking not to accept offers for their entries from other broadcasters or publishers before 30 September 2026.

All scripts submitted must be approximately 40-50 minutes in length – this usually equates to a minimum of 35 pages of A4 paper (or equivalent) and a maximum of 60 pages (note, a rough guide is a minute per page; please read and time your drama before you send it). The drama should have a maximum of six central characters (there may be up to 3 small “doubling” characters too, who don’t have more than a few lines each). Word count approx. 7000-9000 words.

Your script should be accompanied by a short synopsis which outlines the complete story of the drama. This must be no more than 400 words.

BENEFIT:

“Prize”: The Cash Prize and the Trip
“The Cash Prize”: £2,500 sterling (or the equivalent in a local currency at the BBC’s discretion)
“The Trip”: a trip to the UK (standard airfare and accommodation for one person) to see the winning drama being recorded and attend a prize-giving event

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