Submissions open for Team Up for Climate Challenge 2025

Each year since 2022, students and young graduates from around the world come together in teams of 2 to 5 to come up with an innovative solution on the topic: adapting and living together in the face of climate risks.

As teams advance in the challenge, they gain access to a range of support to help shape their projects. This includes collective workshops training them on pitching, business models, and entrepreneurship as well as mentors paired with each teams, to focus on the technical aspects of their ideas and their impact on climate adaptation.

The top three teams will be awarded personal prizes, along with additional funding to help bring their projects to life during the first 6 months.

Categories

• Imagine transforming a local area you know well, making it more resilient to climate change. Start by identifying the climate risks and vulnerabilities in that area. The more you understand what’s at stake, the better your solution will be. Your project can focus on one or more of these categories:
  • Inform & Raise Awareness
    • Engage the community through creative methods—this could include organizing workshops, creating awareness campaigns, or using tech or social media.
    • Consider using storytelling, art, or interactive tools to communicate the climate risks and inspire action.
  • Anticipate & Repair
    • Develop solutions to help communities prepare for climate risks and recover from disasters. This might involve creating early warning systems, setting up disaster preparedness plans, or designing strategies to rebuild critical infrastructure in a more resilient way like introducing drought-resistant crops.
  • Design practical solutions to physically protect communities from climate risks.
    • This could be through creating flood barriers, building resilient infrastructure, or using nature-based approaches like reforestation or coastal protection to shield against storms or erosion.

Benefits

• First Prize
  • Study Trip to Paris
    • 2 days of meeting with associations, academic and professionals to further develop the project.
• First Prize/Second Prize/Third Prize
  • Coaching
    • Individual project management and financial planning sessions with Makesense.
  • Photo Project
    • Participation in an art project to be exhibited at the Photoclimat festival in 2025 in Paris.

Funding Information

• First Prize
  • Personal Prize
    • €1,000 per team member
  • Boost Prize
    • €7,000 (conditional after 6-8 months development).
• Second Prize
  • Personal Prize
    • €750 per team member
  • Boost Prize
    • €4,000 (conditional after 6-8 months development).
• Third Prize
  • Personal Prize
    • €500 per team member
  • Boost Prize
    • €3,000 (conditional after 6-8 months development).

Eligibility Criteria

• This Challenge is open and offered solely to Student, i.e.Any individual aged at least eighteen (18) years and/or with full legal capacity, who:
  • is currently enrolled at a post-secondary institution or
  • has recently graduated from a post-secondary institution less than 2 years before the current scholar year, with a student card to prove it.
• Each student may only participate once in the Challenge. If the participant is a minor, you must provide an authorization signed by a parent or guardian in the name of the minor. This authorization is accessible through Parental Consent.
• All the documents that may confirm the Participant’s eligibility will be required prior to awarding any prizes (e.g. identity document, student card, etc.).
• This Challenge is also open to trainees and interns or students in apprenticeship in one of the Sponsor subsidiaries
• This Challenge is void in countries where it is prohibited or restricted by law.

For more information, visit Fondation Egis.