If you are aged between 11 and 19 and interested in history and writing, the YWSP is ready to take you on an adventure! We are the UK’s only creative writing prize specifically for budding historical fiction writers. You could win a £500 travel grant, tickets to one of the UK&rsquo
Published: 2024-09-17 Type: Contest Deadline: October 31, 2024
The search for some of the Commonwealth’s best short story writers has begun again. Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over can enter a short story of 2000-5000 words for a chance to win £5,000.
Published: 2024-09-03 Type: Contest Deadline: November 1, 2024
Commonwealth Ocean Champions Competition. A virtual ocean hackathon and symposium was launched on 12 August by the Blue Charter Ocean Youth Working Group to coincide with International Youth Day. The working group is inviting young people with innovative ideas from across the Commonwealth
Published: 2024-08-23 Type: Contest Deadline: Not Specified
The aim of the scheme is to promote the building of skills and capacities for current and future generations, including in core areas like quantitative skills, interdisciplinarity, data science, digital humanities and languages. This scheme promotes the acquisition and advancement of skills in relev
Published: 2024-07-12 Type: Contest Deadline: September 11, 2024
The Ralph Brown Expedition Award is a single annual award, offered to an experienced researcher leading a research expedition working in an aquatic environment. This includes the study of coral reefs, rivers, lakes and shallow seas. The project should be of value to the host country a
Published: 2024-07-03 Type: Contest Deadline: November 23, 2024
We are pleased to announce a call for the EPSRC Doctoral Prize funded by the University's EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership grant. The prize funds a 1-year salary for an outstanding researcher to support the further development of their research activities following completion of PhD stu
Published: 2024-03-04 Type: Contest Study in: Glasgow Deadline: March 6, 2024
Film Lab Africa is a pioneering accelerator initiative launched by the British Council, tailored to empower emerging filmmakers and TV producers in Nigeria. Our programme is meticulously designed to provide an all-encompassing framework of support and avenues for growth, fostering enhanced skills, e
Published: 2023-09-27 Type: Contest Deadline: Not Specified
The Royal Entomological Society has launched the bug photography competition to encourage understanding and engagement in the science, natural history, and conservation of insects. There are three competition categories: 18 and over (with themes of Insect behaviour, Inse
Published: 2023-09-07 Type: Contest Deadline: October 31, 2023
The British Council IELTS Prize is a monetary reward designed to help fund the winners’ undergraduate or postgraduate studies for those starting the academic year from January 2023 to March 2024.
Published: 2023-08-15 Type: Contest Deadline: September 15, 2023
Whitley Awards fund grassroots conservation leaders in the Global South and put an international spotlight on winners’ work. The Whitley Awards are our flagship prizes, presented by our Patron HRH The Princess Royal at a ceremony in London. The Whitley Awards Ceremony will take place in Spr
Published: 2023-07-28 Type: Contest Deadline: October 31, 2023
The QEPrize seeks nominations from the public that celebrate a wide variety of engineering innovations across all sectors of the profession, and a breadth of nominators from all corners of the globe. The £500,000 prize is the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade, awarded to u
Published: 2023-06-06 Type: Contest Deadline: June 13, 2023
This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, they will be ready to l
Published: 2023-05-04 Type: Contest Deadline: October 5, 2023
As part of our new strategic focus, Wellcome aims to drive a transformative change in the ability to intervene as early as possible in the course of anxiety and depression, broadly defined, in ways prioritised by the people who experience them. This work involves advancing scientific understand
Published: 2023-05-04 Type: Contest Deadline: Not Specified