RELX Environmental Challenge (Up to $50,000)

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About RELX Environmental Challenge

The RELX Environmental 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.

Each year the RELX Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation.

Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified need and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.

• Sponsor Organisation: RELX

Benefits of RELX Environmental Challenge

• The winning project in the RELX Environmental Challenge will receive a single payment of $50,000
• The second place finisher receiving a single payment of $25,000.
• 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.

RELX Environmental Challenge Requirements

1) Open only to applicants 21 years of age or over at their time of entry with access to the internet and an email account during the Challenge Period and subsequent Prize Award Period.

2) Applicants may participate as

• individuals,
• teams of individuals, or
• 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”).

3) Submission of an application with a proposal (“Application”) on behalf of a group of individuals or an Organisation shall constitute a representation by the individual submitting the Application that he/she is authorised to represent the team to submit the Application and distribute any prize money

4) Open to individuals or organisations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors.

5) 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

Application Date and Process

Applications are reviewed against the RELX Environmental Challenge criteria by the RELX Environmental Challenge advisory group, comprised of relevant internal and external water and sanitation specialists. Those in contention for the shortlist are reviewed by an expert panel of external judges.

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Application Deadline

27 July, 2025

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