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RELX ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE

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Application Deadline: 23:59 GMT on 27 July 2025

LOCATION: USA

Each year the RELX Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation. Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified needs, and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.

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.

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SHORT FILM CONTEST ON COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN NIGERIA 3RD EDITION

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Application Deadline:  11 July 2025

LOCATION: Nigeria

Theme: Human trafficking is organized crime—end the exploitation. Each year, the world commemorates the global fight against trafficking in persons on 30 July during World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The commemoration provides the opportunity for all fringes of society—from artists to decision-makers—to come together to reflect on progress and challenges made in addressing trafficking in persons. This year, this global campaign will be marked around the theme Human Trafficking Is Organized Crime—End the Exploitation, underscoring the vital role of law enforcement and the criminal justice system in dismantling organized trafficking networks while ensuring a victim-centered approach.

BENEFIT:

The IOM Short Film Contest is open to all young Nigerians under 35 years old with a keen interest in the cross-cutting issues of counter trafficking, human rights of migrants, media, and social justice among others.

While the people appearing in the video/film can be of any age, it is important that the film reflect the thoughts and opinions of the young filmmaker(s) about different forms of trafficking in persons and counter-trafficking. The person submitting the video (“the participant”) must be actively involved in its making, e.g., either as a director, writer, camera operator, editor, actor, coordinator, etc.

The entrants must ensure that everyone appearing in the submitted film has signed a consent to be filmed, including actors in fictional films and real characters in documentaries. Informed consent can be a short statement confirming the individual has granted his/her consent for their image to appear in the production. It requires telling a person exactly how their information or image will be used, ensuring that they understand what they are agreeing to, and that they are not consenting under pressure or duress. All films submitted to the contest will be critically examined and vetted on the topic of ‘informed consent’, if needed, before entering the contest.

 Multiple youths can work together on one video and submit the final product as a single entry for their group work.

BENEFIT:

First prize: $2500

Second prize: $1500

Third prize: $1,000

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