Applications Invited for the Team Up for Climate challenge 2025

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About the Organization

The Egis Foundation is the main organizer of the challenge, overseeing every aspect from conception to execution. Since 2022, it has been organizing the challenge annually, ensuring its smooth progression from start to finish.

About the Event

Each year since 2022, students and young graduates from around the world come together in teams of 2 to 5 to come up with an innovative solution on the topic: adapting and living together in the face of climate risks.

As teams advance in the challenge, they gain access to a range of support to help shape their projects. This includes collective workshops training them on pitching, business models, and entrepreneurship as well as mentors paired with each teams, to focus on the technical aspects of their ideas and their impact on climate adaptation.

The top three teams will be awarded personal prizes, along with additional funding to help bring their projects to life during the first 6 months.

Imagine transforming a local area you know well, making it more resilient to climate change. Start by identifying the climate risks and vulnerabilities in that area. The more you understand what’s at stake, the better your solution will be. Your project can focus on one or more of these categories:

• Inform & Raise Awareness
• Anticipate & Repair
• Protect

Prize

First Prize

Study trip to Paris

• 2 days of meeting with associations, academic and professionals to further develop the project.

Second Prize/ Third Prize

Coaching

• Individual project management and financial planning sessions with Makesense.

Photo project

• Participation in an art project to be exhibited at the Photoclimat festival in 2025 in Paris.

Personal prize

• €1,000 per team member

Boost prize

€7,000 (conditional after 6-8 months development).

Eligibility

This Challenge is open and offered solely to Student, i.e.Any individual aged at least eighteen (18) years and/or with full legal capacity, who (i) is currently enrolled at a post-secondary institution or (ii) has recently graduated from a post-secondary institution less than 2 years before the current scholar year, with a student card to prove it. Each student may only participate once in the Challenge. If the participant is a minor, you must provide an authorization signed by a parent or guardian in the name of the minor. This authorization is accessible through Parental Consent. 

All the documents that may confirm the Participant’s eligibility will be required prior to awarding any prizes (e.g. identity document, student card, etc.).

 This Challenge is also open to trainees and interns or students in apprenticeship in one of the Sponsor subsidiaries

 This Challenge is void in countries where it is prohibited or restricted by law.

How to Apply

All Round One Deliverables must be received by Sponsor on or before 24/03/2025 at 23:55 CET .

Registration

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