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RELX Environmental Challenge 2025

Posted on: 24 Jun, 2025 Deadline: 27 Jul, 2025

Each year, the RELX Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation. There is a $50,000 prize for the first-place entry and a $25,000 prize for the second-place entry. The winners also receive free access for one year to ScienceDirect, our Scientific, Technical & Medical business’s database of full-text scientific information, including almost 250,000 articles since 2000 in Environmental Sciences.

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

Summary

Application Deadline: 27 July 2025
Type: Contest
Sponsor: RELX
Gender: Men and Women
Eligible Countries: All countries

Eligibility Criteria for RELX Environmental Challenge 2025

The RELX Environmental Challenge is open to individuals or organizations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. 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

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.

Benefits of RELX Environmental Challenge 2025

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