The Elsevier Foundation has been around for over 15 years, investing USD 1 million per annum on non-profit organisations. It is owned by Elsevier, an IT and analytics company focused on science and health.
The 6th edition of the Elsevier Foundation Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge is re-launched as Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge.
This Challenge encourages participants to submit a proposal for a sustainable project tackling climate change.
Project Criteria:
- The proposal clearly describes the urgency of the problem. Provide a description of the project background and include a description of the broader context and highlight how the project links to the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and more particularly how the project links to SDG13 Climate Action and the sub-targets of this SDG.
- The project utilizes innovative green and sustainable chemistry and chemical sciences approach.
- The project is replicable, scalable, sustainable (make sure to specify why), and sets a benchmark for innovation – new ideas or concepts in development will be given preference over more advanced projects.
- The proposal highlights the novelty of your approach and gives a short literature overview of what has been done before, both by you and others (“background”).
- The project is applicable in and suitable for developing countries. Describe the project’s social impact on local communities, including gender equality either in design or implementation.
- The project must have an impactful gender component, clearly describing the sex/gender dimensions of the research.
Benefits:
- The Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge awards 2 prizes of €25,000 each. The Challenge award projects that use green and sustainable chemistry solutions to tackle some of the developing world’s greatest sustainability challenges – encouraging researchers to come up with new solutions.
- The list of the Top 50 proposals that will be advanced to the judging phase of the Challenge will be published in August 2022 on the Elsevier Foundation website. The list of the Top 5 proposals will be published in September. The finalists will be invited to present their project at a special event in October 2022, where the winners of the two prizes will be announced.
Submission Deadline: 14 July 2022
Application Link:
Interested applicants can check this link for details - https://cutt.ly/0J4iPR6
