Top Events to look forward to in the month of December 2020

NGOBOX, India’s largest development sector platform, brings together various opportunities for the development sector professionals in India. Here’s the list of 10 Events for the month of December 2020.

Title: Stanford Longevity Design Challenge 2021

Organization: Stanford Center on Longevity

Deadline: 10th December, 2020

About:

Stanford Center on Longevity accelerates and implements scientific discoveries, technological advances, behavioral practices, and social norms so that century long lives are healthy and rewarding. The Challenge invites university students to design solutions for people of all ages. The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge offers cash prizes and free entrepreneur mentorship in a competition open to all university students around the world who want to design products and services which optimize long life for us all.

Criteria:

• Each team must consist of at least one full-time student from any accredited institution of higher education anywhere in the world (can be undergraduate or graduate)
• Teams may have a total of up to 5 members and may include non-students
• Only students are allowed to present at the Finals

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Title: Virtual Masterclass Google Drive for Trainers and Educators - Foundation Level

Organization: Impact Academy by CSRBOX

Event Duration: 18th December, 2020 – 19th December, 2020

Deadline: 15th December, 2020

About:

CSRBOX, has partnered with Learning Matters, and has created a bespoke virtual masterclass for teachers and trainers to help you get hands-on training on how to effectively use the freely available Google Drive to augment online classrooms / training sessions. Participants will be able to test their learning through in-session assignments and will receive a certification based on one final assessment.

Criteria:

• Social Sector Professionals
• CSR teams
• Educators

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Title: Donald A. Wehrung International Student Award 2021

Organization: The University of British Columbia (UBC)

Deadline: 15th December, 2020

About:

UBC is a global centre for teaching, learning and research, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world and recently recognized as North America’s most international university. This award recognizes outstanding international undergraduate students from impoverished or war-torn areas who have achieved academic excellence under difficult circumstances, and who would be unable to attend university without financial assistance.

Criteria:

• You must be an international student who will be studying in Canada on a Canadian study permit.
• You must be graduating or have recently graduated from a recognized senior secondary school.
• You must be applying for your first undergraduate degree.
• You must meet UBC’s admission requirements, including general and degree-specific requirements and the English Language Admission Standard.
• You must demonstrate superior academic achievement (achieve all As or equivalent standard) and leadership potential.
• You must come from a war-torn, politically unstable, or economically disadvantaged region of the world.

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Title: Karen McKellin International Leader of Tomorrow Award 2021

Organization: The University of British Columbia (UBC)

Deadline: 15th December, 2020

About:

UBC is a global centre for teaching, learning and research, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world and recently recognized as North America’s most international university. The award recognizes international undergraduate students who demonstrate superior academic achievement, leadership skills, involvement in student affairs and community service, and recognized achievement in other key areas.

Criteria:

• You must be an international student who will be studying in Canada on a Canadian study permit.
• You must be entering UBC from a recognized secondary school, college, or other university.
• You must be applying for your first undergraduate degree.
• You must meet UBC’s admission requirements, including general and degree-specific requirements and the English Language Admission Standard.
• You must demonstrate superior academic achievement (achieve all As or equivalent standard).
• You must demonstrate a level of financial need that would otherwise prevent you from pursuing a UBC degree.

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Title: UNESCO Prize for the use of ICT in Education to ensure Continuity & Quality of Learning

Organization: UNESCO

Deadline: 18th December, 2020

About:

UNESCO is a specialized agency of the UN based in Paris. In 2020, the Prize will award scalable AI-powered solutions or technology innovations that have proven effective in improving learning outcomes of marginalized groups while ensuring ethical and equitable use of these technologies in education.

Criteria:

• Individuals, institutions, non-governmental organizations or other entities.
• The project should be ongoing for at least for 1 year
• The project and its organization should not be affiliated to UNESCO or receive any funding from UNESCO
• The technology solutions used by the project should be designed completely for public good or for charitable purposes, meaning that they should not be the free parts of commercial applications or application packages that only offer limited functions free of charge while requesting users to pay for advanced functions

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Title: Social Innovation Competition 2021

Organization: Impaction

Deadline: 20th December, 2020

About:

Impaction's mission is to connect people to jobs in the social impact space and provides “easy” ways people can give back to their local communities. The Social Innovation Competition’s goal is to provide aspiring entrepreneurs with tangible resources that turn their ideas into a reality in ways that make a positive difference in the world.

Criteria:

• Anyone of any age from anywhere is encouraged to apply to this competition.
• They are looking for innovative people (also students) to submit an idea for a product that helps solve a social challenge in the world.

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Title: UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences

Organization: UNESCO

Deadline: 20th December, 2020

About:

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The prize rewards significant efforts of individuals or institutions through scientific research towards improving the quality of human life.

Criteria:

Individual(s) or Institutions endorsed by:

• Either Member States in consultation with their National Commissions; or
• Non-governmental organizations in official partnership with UNESCO active in a field covered by the Prize.

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Title: Hult Prize Challenge on Food for Good 2021

Organization: Hult Prize Foundation

Deadline: 23rd December, 2020

About:

The Foundation transforms how young people envision their own possibilities as leaders of change in the world around them. The Hult Prize returns to the roots of the human experience – food. The Hult Prize is asking teams around the world to build viable food enterprises that will impact the lives of 10 million people in the next decade while strengthening communities, increasing incomes, feeding the hungry and creating jobs.

Criteria:

• Students from any college or university in the world are invited to form teams of 3-4.
• You are considered a student if at the time of application submission, you have not yet graduated.
• Alumni and faculty are not allowed to be official team members.
• While only teams may compete, individuals who cannot form a team but are interested in competing should join the Facebook community to find others individuals who are looking to form teams.

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Title: Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security 2021

Organization: Olam International

Deadline: 11 January, 2021

About:

Olam International are a leading food and agri-business, supplying food ingredients, feed and fibre to thousands of customers worldwide. The Prize recognises an innovative scientific research project for its potential impact on the availability, accessibility, affordability and adequacy of food, in line with UN SDG#2: End Hunger.

Criteria:

• Open to academic or research institutions, civil societies and the private sector;
• Applications can focus on any region, environment, crop or part of the agricultural supply chain.
• The scientific research project should be innovative and has potential impact on the availability, accessibility, affordability and adequacy of food.

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Title: Virtual Masterclass: Social Impact Measurement and Management: Theory, Concepts and Practical Tools (Batch 3)

Organization: Impact Academy by CSRBOX

Event Duration: 19th January, 2021 – 22nd January, 2021

Deadline: 16th January, 2021

About:

Understanding the importance of M&E for project improvement and accountability to funders, we, at CSRBOX, in association with 4th Wheel Social Impact, have put together a masterclass to address gaps, learn from experts and understand the key concepts around M&E. The training will focus on definitions, principles and the scope of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of social development programs. The training program has been designed to enable participants to plan better, implement more effectively, facilitate accountability, support stakeholder communication, and successfully guide the allocation of resources.

Criteria:

• Decision-makers; who want to understand nuances of social program design, implementation and evaluation, and boost their strategies and skills to adapt their Monitoring and Evaluation systems, make critical decisions on social impact and improve resource allocation.
• Professionals & managers working in NGOs and CSR departments; involved in project design, monitoring and evaluation; and are interested in embedding evaluation in their organizations.
• Students and academics; who want to learn practical approaches, methods and tools used in program and project design, management and implementation

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