Apply Now: GEEP Youth Innovation Challenge 2025

The Taiwan Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) and GEEP invite young people (ages 15–30) 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. We're looking for solutions that are informed by research, feasible, innovative, and address one of this year's key topics using environmental education.

Eligibility Criteria for Apply Now: GEEP Youth Innovation Challenge 2025

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:

1. Marine biodiversity and conservation: Managing, protecting, and/or restoring marine biodiversity for its ecological, cultural, economic, and other values.
2. 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.
3. Public-private collaboration: Collaborating between the private sector, governments, and the public to protect marine environments. This might include ideas for cooperation between government and corporations to fulfill corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals, civic engagement opportunities for the public to engage with government programs, and other initiatives that foster collaboration between public and private sectors.

Benefits of Apply Now: GEEP Youth Innovation Challenge 2025

1. Global recognition
2. A $1,000 USD prize
3. A 2-day trip to Kaohsiung, Taiwan to attend the YIC award ceremony September 29–30, 2025

How to Apply

Applications should include a short (3 minutes or less) video pitch about your innovative solution as well as detailed responses to the questions below. 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.

Interested and qualified? Go to Global En)vironmental Education Partnership (GEEP) on naaee.submittable.com to apply

For more details, visit GEEP webpage

Application Deadline

June 30, 2025

Application Link(s)

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