SDG Innovation Challenge is now open for applications from suitably qualified students. It is a fully funded scholarship for all students sponsored by Melton Foundation.
About the Foundation
The Melton Foundation promotes and enables global citizenship as a way for individuals and organizations to work together across boundaries of place and identity to address global challenges.
The Melton Foundation is an international 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization registered in the USA, and a leading proponent of global citizenship practice worldwide.
Aim and Benefits of SDG Innovation Challenge
With this background, we present the SDG Innovation Challenge 2022, which builds upon its precedents to create a bigger space for expanded outreach and wider horizons! Under the theme Transformative Solutions against Global Challenges–Accountability in Leveraging Youth Action to Create and Empower, the SDG Innovation Challenge converges young talent with three primary goals:
1. To trigger fresh thinking by connecting innovators from diverse backgrounds and sectors.
2. To develop fresh, practical approaches to furthering SDG impact through cross-boundary collaboration.
3. To ignite transformative action towards sustainable development and improved livelihoods of communities across Africa.
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Requirements for SDG Innovation Challenge
1. A connection to this year’s challenge theme: Transformative Solutions against Global Challenges–Accountability in Leveraging Youth Action to Create and Empower.
2. Passion, drive, and commitment to improving livelihoods in your community and beyond.
3. A genuine interest in sustainable development and a desire to contribute to advancing the SDGs in your community and beyond.
4. The motivation to work in an agile hackathon-like environment, to engage pro-actively, and to ideate extensively throughout the event.
5. Desire to connect and collaborate with people from different domains and geographies.
6. The ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
7. The commitment to take the idea to completion and remain engaged with the cause post the SDG Innovation Challenge.
Application Deadline
November 1, 2022.
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