Win up to 50,000 in One Young World Competition for Sustainable Development

DÉTAILS OPPORTUNITÉ

Récompense totale

0 $

Organisation à but non lucratif

One Young World

Région

Europe centrale et orientale

Pays hôte

Royaume-Uni

Date limite

05 janv. 2020

Niveau d'études

Premier cycle

Financement d'opportunité

Financement complet

Pays éligibles

Algérie , Comores , Egypte , Jordanie , Liban , Mauritanie , Oman , Qatar , Soumalie , Syrie , Émirats arabes unis , bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Maroc , Palestine , Arabie Saoudite , Soudan , Tunisie , Yemen

Région éligible

Toutes les régions

One Young World is offering a competition for participants from all around the word to find solutions to waste from plastic-based packaging material is an increasing problem with negative impact on our environment, society, human health and the global economy.

About the solution:

Find alternative solutions for waste streams from the packaging industry or after-use of packaging material to avoid landfilling or ocean leakage.
Demonstrate how current retail, collection, sorting and recycling infrastructure can be adapted to generate raw materials of inherent value.
Demonstrate how consumers can be incentivised to reduce the consumption of single use packaging items.
Demonstrate how cross-industry collaboration can make reuse/recycling mechanisms efficient and scalable.
Demonstrate solutions to address post-harvest losses, from improper handling and transportation to lack of proper storage and packaging solutions.
How can the shelf life be extended while simultaneously minimizing the environmental impacts of the packaging itself?
This requires not only an adaptation of processes, raw material selection/preparation and waste prevention, but also the cooperation on all levels involved, including government, industry, retail, and end consumer.
The challenge is working towards a zero waste future, with new packaging and logistical solutions to address waste in the supply chain and/or elimination or reuse of waste streams to create circular solutions.

Eligibility Criteria:

Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 – 30.
Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
Proven: Readily available, in or past implementation phase.
Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example generating employment, or developing skills.
Measurable: Impacts of solutions must have been adequately measured and/or be measurable.
Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
Scalable: Potential to perform as well or better after expanding in scope or size and/or being transported to other regions

Benefits:

The winning solution will receive

A US$50,000 grant from Mondi Group
12 months of mentorship from a team of Standard Chartered professionals.
The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organization, such as:

Business strategy
Best practices for data collection
Monitoring and evaluation
Product design

About:

One Young World was founded in 2009 by David Jones and Kate Robertson. We are a UK-based not-for-profit that gathers together the brightest young people from around the world, empowering them to make lasting connections to create positive change.

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