YOUTH ALONG DEVELOPMENT

Goal of the Award is to present successful sustainable projects to a broad audience, for many of our environmental problems already have good, feasible solutions. Projects which conserve and protect our resources or that employ renewable energy can participate. With a global call for participation ENERGY GLOBE invites outstanding sustainable best practice projects to participate in the annual competition. From all over the world, some 800 projects and initiatives are submitted annually to compete for the award which is presented. ELIGIBILITY Every individual, private or public institution, companies, NGOs etc can submit a project. The submission is free. No project is too small and none is too big! Projects can be entered by individuals as well as companies, organization, and public authorities For 2016 innovative projects and smart technologies from around the world are invited to take part again. Worth International winning projects for the 5 award categories o...

Open to : young people between 18 and 30 year old Tvebiomovies is a film competition now in its sixth year, and open to people around the world with access to a camera. Think about a project or campaign you are involved in to combat climate change, an action which convinced your parents, school or college to take climate action, a lobbying of your elected members of parliament or your city leaders. Whatever is making a difference, turn it into a snappy concise video and join the competition. Some key questions to answer are: Why did you choose to engage in this climate action? What were some of the key things that took place? What were some of the successes? Where did these successes occur (locally, nationally or internationally)? How can youth from similar countries replicate the activities that have been implemented?

MTV’s Staying Alive Grants are now open for the year 2015 and applications can be submitted  youth -led  community-based organizations.  The grants program supports new organizations that have received little or no funding to date. Organizations led by young people between the ages of 15 and 27 that work in  HIV  prevention are supported.  The grants program is interested in organizations that are start-ups and do not have much support, financial or otherwise. In fact it is much more likely to fund an organization that has little or no existing funding to date,  rather than those with several funders on board. A Staying Alive  Foundation  Grant comes with a small amount of funding, Staying Alive materials  (including programming and teaching kits), a small fund to buy technical  media  equipment, a local mentor,  a personal grant manager, as well as training and development. Grants will be awarded to small, youth-led o...

Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders are the global awards for local peacebuilding. Peace Direct is accepting for Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders Awards. The Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders awards were launched in 2013 by Peace Direct. It is awarded annually and offers international recognition for grassroots peace activists in conflict-affected countries worldwide. Prizes : Three winning organisations will each receive $10,000, an invitation to attend a winners’ event in London, and online promotion of their work. They will be chosen from one of the five categories below –  Women ,  Youth , Environment ,  Inter-Religious , and  Arts . Eligibility : These are global awards. There is no geographical restriction on applications. In order to be eligible to enter, participant must: Undertake peacebuilding work – organisation is either a peacebuilding organisation or has peacebuilding as a substantial element of your work . Be locally based – organisation must be based in the country or c...

Enviromental Advantages Extnsive planting within cities is now widely recognised as a means of improving air quality.  Therefore, green roofs contribute to the reduction of a number of polluting air particles and compounds not only through the plants themselves, but also by edeposition in the growing medium itself. Plants reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and produce oxygen Green roofs reduce the heat island effect, which is the main cause of ozone production Plant roofs remove heavy metals, airborne particles and volatile organic compounds Being absorbed into the green roof system these polluting particles do not enter the water system through surface run off leading to improvement in water quality Although green roofs are recognised as playing a positive role in improving air quality, this is linked to the positive effect they have on the urban heat island effect.