The Earthshot Prize
Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is proud to be an official nominator for The Earthshot Prize 2023.
Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is proud to be an official nominator for The Earthshot Prize to find and grow the solutions that will repair our planet this decade.
The Earthshots
Every year until 2030, The Earthshot Prize Council will award £1 million each to break-through solutions across five separate categories:
- Protect and Restore Nature
- Clean our Air
- Revive our Oceans
- Build a Waste-Free World
- Fix our Climate.
Criteria
Our review panel will have the tough job of selecting which applications best respond to The Earthshot Prize’s criteria. We will assess applications across five criteria:
- Relevance—How well does the solution align to the selected Earthshot category and priority areas and does it use any of the cross-cutting enablers?
- Impact— Will the solution make a significant global impact? Does it also have a positive human impact?
- Maturity— How developed is the solution? Is it proven and at a stage where The Earthshot Prize will provide the boost needed to scale the solution?
- Organisation—Does the solution have a solid organisational structure whereby we can trust that if they won The Earthshot prize it would be invested well?
- Overall—Does the solution have wow factor? Is it innovative and inspiring?
Winners and finalists
Previous winners and finalists provide a sense of the type and range of solutions that The Earthshot Prize Council is looking for. It is highly competitive, but for a fantastic reward—the prize money, the exposure, and the support to scale the solution.
Timeline
The best three or four solutions will be selected by 9 December 2022, and we will help them to hone their official nominations to try and make them stand out against the other nominations for each category. The deadline for final nominations is 31 January 2023 followed by a press release celebrating the nominations put forward by the University to help raise their profile and build awareness of The Earthshot Prize.