The Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future (Earthna), part of the Qatar Foundation (QF), is today announcing its new Earthna Prize to honour, recognise and promote the role of generational wisdom in addressing the most pressing environmental issues of our time. The Earthna Prize strives to support projects and stakeholders that preserve, integrate, and adopt traditional knowledge and cultural heritage to tackle contemporary sustainability challenges.
The Earthna Prize is open to global applicants, and will recognise communities and organisations whose work aligns to one or more of the Prize’s four themes:
- Water resource management
- Food security
- Sustainable urbanism
- Land stewardship
With a pool of US $1 million, spread across four US $250,000 prizes, the Prize is aimed at highlighting outstanding contributions in the application of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage in the field of sustainability, and supporting the development, continuation and scaling of this work.
Submissions for the Earthna Prize are open from 22 April, International Earth Day, and close on 30 June 2024. Eligible applicants, including non-governmental organisations, community groups and businesses, can apply or be nominated for their efforts in preserving and leveraging traditional wisdom on the Earthna website.
The Earthna Prize criteria prioritise projects which showcase the applicability of traditional wisdom and blend it with present day sustainability practices, with a focus on innovation, effectiveness and scalability. Applications will face rigorous evaluation by a diverse panel of renowned sustainability and traditional knowledge and cultural heritage experts. A high-level jury will select four winners to be announced at the upcoming Earthna Summit in 2025.
More information about the Earthna Prize can be found at https://www.earthna.qa/
