Applications are open for the Kluz Prize for PeaceTech 2025. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Kluz Prize for PeaceTech
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: July 18, 2025
- Application Deadline: August 01, 2025
- Category: Contest
The Kluz Prize for PeaceTech is an initiative to celebrate, distinguish, and promote the responsible use of new technologies in fostering peace, reducing conflict, and protecting human dignity and universal human rights across the globe.
They seek innovations in:
- Conflict Prevention and Mitigation
- Preventing conflict and violence
- Facilitating bridges across divides
- Limiting Human Suffering During Conflict
- Protecting civilians and human rights
- Delivering humanitarian aid and crisis response
- Post-Conflict Rebuilding
- Supporting peacebuilding and recovery
Benefits of Kluz Prize for PeaceTech
The award grants the selected winner $20,000 for their accomplishments in the field and to support the further advancement of their project in the emerging field of technologies for peace.
Kluz Prize for PeaceTech Requirements
- Open to individuals and organizations worldwide, who have distinguished themselves through proven achievements or accomplishments, or innovative projects related to application of transformative technologies in building, supporting, keeping, and promoting peace.
- Particularly those initiated by the younger generation and the tech community, including entrepreneurs, engineers, programmers, scientists, startups, accelerators, big-tech, and venture capitalists.
- Applications can be submitted individually or as a group, with the organization's name and legal representative indicated.
- They are not seeking applications proposing new projects. This grant will only be awarded to established projects which have had an impact in the field.
Selection Criteria
The Selection Committee will use the following achievement-oriented criteria for selection:
- Demonstrated Impact: Evidence of the achievements or project's tangible improvement on a significant number of lives;
- Proven Relevance: Examples of how the achievements or project has effectively supported, built, kept peace or addressed an urgent need in a humanitarian or developmental context;
- Novelty and Innovation: Instances where the achievements or project has employed a unique approach contributing to solutions in a remarkable way;
- Scalability and Sustainability: Illustrations of successful expansions beyond the initial pilot, demonstrating the project's growth potential;
- Collaborative Success: Instances of leveraging collaboration and partnerships that have unlocked new opportunities or enhanced the project's impact.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Applications are due by 11:59 PM EDT on July 20, 2025.
Application Deadline
01 August, 2025
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