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UNEP YOUNG CHAMPIONS OF THE EARTH AWARD

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Application Deadline: 5 April 2024

LOCATION: Kenya

Young Champions of the Earth is the flagship youth engagement initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The award is bestowed annually to ambitious young people from around the world with outstanding ideas to protect and restore the environment.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible to enter the Young Champions of the Earth competition (hereafter referred to as “the Competition”), applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 30.

Additionally, each applicant must have at least six months of prior experience working on their environmental project.

Individuals who submitted applications in previous cycles of the Competition are entitled to do so again. However, only one entry is allowed per person per year.The 2024 Young Champions of the Earth will be required to share their journeys through videos and blogs on this website for up to one year. If you have at least 6 months experience working on a big idea to protect or restore the environment and will be aged between 18 and 30 on 31 December 2024, you are eligible to apply.

BENEFIT:

In 2024, Young Champions of the Earth will be selected, one from each global region: Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, West Asia and two from Asia and the Pacific. Each winner will receive: 

Mentorship, capacity building workshops and access to a UN community of experts

An introduction to dignitaries at the Young Champions of the Earth award ceremony

Publicity and recognition through interviews and online and global media

US$20,000 in seed-funding

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WCF AFRICA (POST-PRODUCTION FUNDING)

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Application Deadline: February 28, 2024

LOCATION: Germany

In cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office the World Cinema Fund launched a special funding opportunity for projects from sub-Saharan Africa. All WCF submissions with projects from sub-Saharan Africa will automatically also be considered for the special funding by the WCF Africa programme.

ELIGIBILITY:

film production companies from sub-Saharan Africa regions, that can confirm their collaboration with a director from sub-Saharan Africa region/country or

registered film production companies based in Germany (in the commercial register or registered trade) that can prove a working relationship with a director from a sub-Saharan Africa region/country or

registered film production companies from other EU member states, provided they have a branch or place of business in Germany and can prove a working relationship with a director from a sub-Saharan Africa region.

BENEFIT:

Maximum funding: 40,000 Euros for post-production funding.

The total production costs of the supported projects should range between 200,000 Euros and 1,400,000 Euros.

The funding must be spent on the post-production of the film in the aforementioned regions.

The contractual partner is always the German partner.

Please note that the final expenditure report of funds must be delivered by October 2024, the latest.

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