Deadline: June 30, 2025
Description of the Opportunity
Applications are open for the Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) Youth Innovation Challenge (YIC). The Taiwan Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) and GEEP invite young people everywhere to propose an innovative solution that addresses a marine conservation issue.
The 2025 YIC explores how we can address marine issues and support people of all ages to be engaged stewards to protect marine environments. They are looking for solutions that are informed by research, feasible, innovative, and address one of this year’s key topics using environmental education. All eligible proposals will be evaluated by a panel of experts working at the intersection of environmental education, community engagement, and marine conservation.
Benefits
A total of 15 YIC finalists will be selected and will receive the following benefits:
- An official YIC finalist certificate
- Recognition through GEEP, NAAEE, and other global partners’websites and social media pages
- They will select 3 winners from the 15 YIC finalists.
- Each winner will receive a $1,000 USD prize, in addition to all the benefits listed above, and will be invited to attend the YIC award ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan in October 2025 (all travel expenses covered).
Eligibility
- The Youth Innovation Challenge is intended for young leaders and innovators aged 15–30.
- Your innovative solutions must provide a solution to one of the following key areas, using environmental education as a key component:
- Marine biodiversity and conservation: Managing, protecting, and/or restoring marine biodiversity for its ecological, cultural, economic, and other values.
- Marine debris: Reducing and/or mitigating the effects of marine debris, including the monitoring, clean-up, and recycling of marine debris, and educating communities about how to address these issues.
- Public-private collaboration: Collaborating between the private sector, governments, and the public to protect marine environments.
- Solutions must be submitted online through Submittable (only one proposal per person or team will be accepted).
- Proposals will only be accepted in English at this time. Your video pitch and written responses will not be scored based on your English proficiency, but rather the strength of your solution and your ability to communicate your ideas and vision to the judges.
Proposal Process
- Applications should include a short (3 minutes or less) video pitch about your innovative solution as well as detailed responses to the questions listed.
- Successful proposals will describe how their solution addresses marine conservation, biodiversity, debris issues, or uses public-private collaborations to protect marine environments, and will explain how their solution is innovative, feasible, and grounded in effective environmental education.
For more information, please visit Global Environmental Education Partnership Youth Innovation Challenge
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