Application Deadline: 3 March 2025.
Applications are now open for the 2026 World Habitat Awards. The World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world. More than 360 outstanding World Habitat Awards projects have been recognised over the years, demonstrating substantial, lasting improvements in living conditions.
Each year two winners receive £10,000 each and a trophy, presented at a global UN-Habitat event.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, applications:
- must be related to housing.
- must concern projects that are either in progress or finished less than ten years ago, from the date the call for entries closes (3 March 2025).
- cannot be a grant application.
Prizes and Benefits
- Winning a World Habitat Award provides international visibility and acts as a mark of recognition that a housing solution is innovative, exceptional and exciting.
- In addition, the two Gold Award winning projects receive a prize fund of £10,000 each.
- Trophies are also presented to the two Gold Award winning projects at a special Awards Ceremony, and travel and accommodation costs are met for one representative of each project to attend.
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