The-Reed-Elsevier-Environmental-Challenge

Application Deadline: 14 April 2015

The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation. Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified need, and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.

The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge is open to individuals or organisations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation, and include the following criteria:

Be replicable, scalable and sustainable. and set a benchmark for innovation
Have practical applicability
Address non-discrimination/equity of access
Involve and impact a range of stakeholders
Have local/community-level engagement

Application Benefits:

All applicants will be offered access to relevant Reed Elsevier products, such as Water Research, that can help in the preparation of their submissions.
For the second time, all applicants will be offered access to LexisNexis Risk Solution’s open source high performance computing (HPCC) resource, to allow them to process large amounts of research data. Documentation, tools, code examples and online training courses in HPCC and ECL, the programming language used by the HPCC Systems platform, will also be available to those applicants that may need them

Benefits:

First Prize: $50,000 prize for the first place entry and

Second Prize: $25,000 prize for the second place entry.

The winners will receive relevant training and professional development up to $2,500 each, and free access for one year to ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s database of full text, scientific information, including almost 250,000 articles since 2000 in Environmental Sciences.
The winning projects will be highlighted in the Reed Elsevier journal Water Research.

Timeline:

Deadline: 14 April 2015
Shortlist announced: June 2015
Winners announced: Autumn 2015

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge

Application Deadline: April 15 2013

The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge is open to individuals or organisations operating in the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation, and include the following criteria:

Be replicable, scalable and sustainable. and set a benchmark for innovation
Have practical applicability
Address non-discrimination/equity of access
Involve and impact a range of stakeholders
Have local/community-level engagement

These are the criteria against which projects will be assessed. Early stage projects are preferred.

Prizes

The winning project in the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge will receive a single payment of $50,000, with the second place finisher receiving a single payment of $25,000.

All applicants will be offered access to relevant Reed Elsevier products, such as Water Research, that can help in the preparation of their submissions between January and April 2013. Winning projects will be highlighted in Water Research.

Judging
Applications will be reviewed against the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge criteria by the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge advisory group, comprised of relevant internal and external water and sanitation specialists. Those in contention for the short list will be reviewed by an expert panel of external judges.

The shortlist will be announced in May 2013. Shortlisted candidates will be given the opportunity to refine and elaborate on their proposals. Following interviews of shortlisted candidates, winners will be announced.

For More Information Visit: The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge Webpage

2015 Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge for projects on sustainable access to safe water.

The Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge 2013.