- Prize Pool – $75,000
- Deadline – July 27, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The RELX is requesting proposals for its Environmental Challenge to provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation.
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The RELX Environmental Challenge (the “Challenge”) is a skill-based competition in which participants are asked to submit proposals outlining innovative ideas that advance access to safe water and/or sanitation where access is presently at risk.
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Each year the RELX Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation.
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Funding Information
- 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.
Eligible Projects
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
Eligibility:
Applicants can be individuals or organisations. They might work in the for-profit or non-profit sectors. They might be physicists, chemists, or work in business. But what they all have in common is that their innovation meets the criteria RELX set out for the competition. Applicants may participate as:
- individuals,
- teams of individuals,
- 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”).
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