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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