Call for Applications: Earthna Prize 2025 (US$ 250,000 Grant)

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Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future (Earthna) has launched the Earthna Prize, an initiative to aim at celebrating and supporting projects, actors and systems that are working towards the preservation, integration, adaptation, and adoption of ancestral knowledge and cultural heritage in addressing contemporary environmental challenges.

A prize of US$ 1M will be presented during the global Earthna Summit 2025, recognizing up to four winners focused in four main areas. By showcasing outstanding efforts, the prize aims to inspire a wider community to champion environmental stewardship and contribute to a more resilient and environmentally sustainable world.

Earthna Prize Focus Areas

The Prize will support work in the following areas:

Water resource management
Food security
Sustainable urbanism
Land stewardship

Funding Information

The winners of the 2025 Earthna Prize will receive US$ 250,000 each to support the development of their project/initiatives.

Who Can Apply For The Earthna Prize?

‌We welcome knowledge holders who seek to curate, administer, perpetuate, and preserve systems of traditional knowledge. This encompasses a diverse range of organizations, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and private sector entities.
The Earthna Prize acknowledges champions who actively promote the inclusion and application of traditional knowledge in developing solutions and supporting policymaking processes on sustainability. We also value efforts focused on preserving and adopting traditional sustainability knowledge and practices. Moreover, we seek applicants who respond to the needs of local communities by fostering relationships of trust, facilitating networking, and promoting collaboration between local and global processes.

Nominee/Applicant

The 2025 Earthna Prize selection process accepts nominations and applications.
Potential Earthna Prize candidates can only be initiatives/projects under a legally incorporated entity.
Nominees for the Earthna Prize can be from any part of the world.

Nominator

The nominator can be an organization or an individual.
The nominator could be working with the nominee, part of their community, or be one of the nominee’s end beneficiaries.
The nominator will fill out the nomination form and should be very familiar with the nominee’s work. The nominator can also request information from the nominee to fill in the form.
The nominator should provide the required contact information, in case the Earthna Prize team would like to contact the nominator for further details.

Multiple Nominations

Several nominations from different individuals or organizations may be submitted for the same initiative/project, although this has no bearing on the judging process.
The same nominators may submit several nominations for different initiatives/projects.

Who Is Eligible?

‌For your application to be considered eligible, your submission must adhere to the following:

The initiative/project must have been in operation for a minimum of two years.
At least one dedicated team member must be available to communicate with the Earthna Prize team.
The initiatives/projects must be under a legally incorporated entity.
The application must be in English.
Accurate contact information for supporters must be provided.