Request for Proposals: RELX Environmental Challenge

Request for Proposals: RELX Environmental Challenge

Deadline: 27 July 2025

The RELX is requesting proposals for its Environmental Challenge to provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation.

Funding Information

• There is a $50,000 prize for the first place entry and a $25,000 prize for the second place entry.

Eligible Projects

• 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

Eligibility Criteria

• The Challenge is open only to applicants 21 years of age or over at their time of entry with access to the internet and an email account during the Challenge Period and subsequent Prize Award Period. Proof of residency and age may be required. Applicants may participate as:
  • individuals,
  • teams of individuals,
  • individually or in teams on behalf of an organisation, i.e. an educational or not-for-profit institution or a corporation (the latter category, collectively “Organisations”).

Judging Criteria

• Applications will be assessed against the Challenge criteria, which are as follows: They must advance access to safe and sustainable water supply where it is presently at risk and/or access to improved sanitation. They must set a benchmark for innovation and demonstrate:
  • Replicability, scalability and sustainability
  • Practical applicability
  • Non-discrimination/equity of access
  • Involvement of, and impacts on, a range of stakeholders
  • Local/community-level engagement

For more information, visit RELX.