Bulls n Bears Entrepreneurship Zone :: The Zayed Sustainability Prize calls for submissions from the African continent

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The Zayed Sustainability Prize is now open to applicants from across the
African continent. Having evolved from the Zayed Future Energy Prize, this
annual award recognises achievements that are driving impact, innovation,
and inspiration in areas across health, food, energy and water sectors with
expanding possibilities for a sustainable future.

Applicants are encouraged to submit their entry for consideration with a
submission deadline of 9th August 2018. With a total prize fund of US$3m,
the prize awards winners across five distinct categories that include:
health, food, energy, water and global high schools.

The interconnected pillars of health, food, energy and water represent the
basic needs essential to human survival where innovations will yield
progress in sustainable development. The evolution from the Zayed Future
Energy Prize into the Zayed Sustainability Prize addresses the inter-related
nature of the world’s global resource systems that determines progress of
social, economic and environmental improvements.

The annual prize provides a platform for recognising the next generation of
sustainability innovators and leaders across the world. The prize network
and fund allow organisations and enterprises with existing innovations or
high schools with project ideas in the defined sectors to amplify their
work, expanding the reach and impact of the innovations.

The target for the Zayed Sustainability Prize is to attract applications
from all countries across Africa opening up new opportunities for innovators
in organisations, enterprises and high schools to amplify their impact and
reach. The prize awards unique, pioneering innovations that have the
potential to affect a positive impact on humanity by helping entities scale
up their efforts and yield greater success.

Dr Lamya Fawwaz, director of the Zayed Sustainability Prize, said: “The
categories of the Zayed Sustainability Prize have been carefully selected to
reflect the most pressing sustainability challenges and offer the greatest
socio-economic impact on the lives of people around the world. The prize
will also look to inspire today’s youth to be forward-thinkers and cultivate
within them a vested interest in becoming agents of change for sustainable
development – after all, youth of today are leaders of tomorrow.

“Africa represents the fastest-growing region for entrepreneurship in the
world. With award-winning projects, our winners from the continent and
globally have had positive and sustainable impact on its people. Over the
last decade, we have witnessed a growing interest from participants across
the African continent and we expect the momentum to continue growing this
year. We hope to facilitate collaborations between our ever-growing network
of innovators to build stronger, more sustainable innovations and projects
that will propel the continent forward,” Dr Lamya added.

The Zayed Sustainability Prize has a three-stage evaluation process,
beginning with the due diligence that is conducted by a reputed
international research and analysis consultancy. Following this, the
shortlisted entries will undergo evaluations by a selection committee to
determine the finalists. From these finalists, a jury will select the
winners in all five categories, including the winning schools from six world
regions.

The deliberations on who wins the Zayed Sustainability Prize are set
against three core criteria where entrants must demonstrate:

*         Impact: Significant and tangible outcomes on the quality of
people’s lives

*         Innovation: Distinctive characteristics to change the “status
quo” and potential to catalyse opportunities that will have a disruptive
positive impact and transformative change

*         Inspiration: The potential to scale up project outcomes in the
next decade and the ability to inspire others

In the past decade, the prize focused on closing the energy gap and
ensuring energy security. Africa is an important continent as it is where
access to energy has significantly improved the quality of life of its
people. The evolution to the Zayed Sustainability Prize and its alignment to
the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals allows the prize and its winners to
affect an even greater impact on humanity by increasing the influx of
resources in health, food, energy and water into the region.

Winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize will be announced at the awards
ceremony during the opening of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week on
14thJanuary 2019.

For more information, please check out www.zayedsustainabilityprize.com and
apply for the Zayed Sustainability Prize by registering here:
entry.zayedsustainabilityprize.com

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About the Zayed Sustainability Prize

Established by the UAE leadership in 2008, as the Zayed Future Energy
Prize, the Zayed Sustainability Prize is a global initiative inspired by the
environmental stewardship and global sustainability vision and legacy of the
UAE’s founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Culminating in an annual awards ceremony, held each year during Abu Dhabi
Sustainability Week, the Zayed Sustainability Prize invites pioneers and
innovators from around the world to be part of a growing community,
committed to developing impactful sustainability initiatives and
accelerating the development of solutions that serve people across the world
– for today and for the future generations to come.

The Zayed Sustainability Prize categories are: health, food, energy, water
and global high schools.—Howwemadeitinafrica 


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