The Earth Prize is a $100,000 environmental sustainability competition for teenage students everywhere. The Earth Prize will recognize the students and schools with the best solutions to accelerate positive change towards environmental sustainability, as judged by The Earth Prize Adjudicating Panel.
Registration is open from September
1st until November 30th.
Fill out the online registration form to get access to My Earth Prize Platform, where you will have access to our exclusive content and mentoring
Make sure your Supervisor registers too and creates your team on the Submissions Portal
Complete the necessary team information and get thinking!
Participants must have been born between 2005 and 2011 and be registered in a school or educational program.
All teams that have successfully submitted their Problem Definition and Motivation Statement will automatically enter the Submissions Phase of the competition.
At the Submissions Phase, the Fresh Idea will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Applicability
The Fresh Idea takes into account the essential steps needed to bring the solution to life and demonstrates awareness of potential obstacles for the implementation of the solution for a prolonged period of time.
Innovativeness
The proposed solution - or any of the elements of its implementation process - is unique (it does not exist and it has not been proposed already by anyone else) and disruptive. The project differentiates itself from any other idea/initiative in the identified environmental sustainability context by at least one distinctive feature that defines the project’s impact potential.
Scalability
The Fresh Idea takes into account the possibility for the team or other individuals to replicate or adapt the idea in a different geographical location to serve a larger or a new target and whether there is a real-life need for the solution elsewhere.
Relevance
The Fresh Idea demonstrates that the proposed solution is needed and applicable to the selected geographical setting. If the solution has potential to be scaled up, it can be adapted according to the needs of different regions and customized for new target users.
Inspirational Impact
The Fresh Idea demonstrates the ability to raise awareness about the team's identified environmental problem and to inspire others within their community or elsewhere.
At the Finalists Phase, the ten selected Finalists’ submissions will be evaluated by the Adjudicating Panel. Each of the 4 submissions will be evaluated using specific criteria and weighting.
40%
Final idea
The Adjudicating Panel’s evaluation of the pitch video will taking into account the following aspects:
25%
Presentation of the Final Idea to the Adjudicating Panel
The Panel’s evaluation will take into account the following aspects:
25%
Q&A session
The Panel’s evaluation of the live Q&A will take into account the following aspects:
10%
The Pitch Video
The Adjudicating Panel’s evaluation of the pitch video will taking into account the following aspects:
0%
Social media campaign
No weighting will be given for the Social Media Engagement Campaign. However, it might be taken into consideration in case of a tie between two or more Finalist teams.
Karen Wilson
Chair of the Panel
Karen Wilson is the Founder of GV Partners and an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, finance, sustainability and impact measurement, working with private sector firms, international organizations, foundations and academia. She is an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University and a Senior Advisor on Sustainability and ESG at the Institute for Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where she is also a Visiting Lecturer. She has a Bachelors of Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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