Deadline: 25th March, 2024
Egis Foundation is inviting you to create or join a team to come up with an innovative solution on the topic : adapting and living together in the face of climate risks.
Every year, the Egis mentors and makesense support more than 500 youths from more than 50 countries on real-life issues in their own communities, to help their communities adapt to climate change.
Categories
- INFORM & RAISE AWARENESS: How can we raise awareness of local climate risks and better inform local populations to help them take action?
- ANTICIPATE AND PREPARE: How can we better anticipate climate risks and help populations improve their ability to recover after a catastrophe?
- PROTECT: How can we implement solutions to protect people at risk and reduce their vulnerability?
Benefits
Join forces with other students from all over the world – An opportunity to talk to other students about issues of civic engagement.
Entrepreneurship Experience – Participation in collective workshops with makesense to develop the project with this NGO specializing in social innovation.
Mentoring and Guidance – Team mentoring with Egis professionals to develop your project.
Career opportunities and alumni network – Opportunity to meet Egis teams and professions during visits to our offices and join the Team Up for Climate Alumni network.
Ceremony and study trip – Public presentation of projects at a major event in Paris + for 1st Prize : 2 days of meetings with associations, academics and professionals to further develop the project.
30,000€ in prizes to share! – An individual prize for each member (from €500 to €1,000), financial planning workshops valued at €5,000 € and a boost of €3,000 to €7,000 conditional on the project’s launch.
Highlighting the project with Photoclimat – Participation in an art project to be exhibited at the Photoclimat festival in 2025 in Paris.
For more information and application.