Name of the Event: 2025 Risk Awards by UNDRR and the Munich Re Foundation

Date: June 2025

Place: Geneva, Switzerland

Last Date of Application: 13 October 2024

Link to Apply:

The 2025 RISK Award is looking for project proposals under the topic “Children and youths as agents of change for DRR”. In this sense, the 2025 RISK Award reflects a combined approach from three major UN frameworks, namely the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015. Invitations are extended to non-profit organisations, NGOs, but also academic institutions and local communities to apply with their non-profit projects on this topic.

Award Endowment – Funding:

The RISK Award is endowed with 100,000 €. This means that the organisers can contribute to your project with a maximum of 100,000 €. However, it is also understood that many initiatives are larger. In this case, please write in your application what the volume of your overall project is and where the other required financial resources will come from.

Dates and deadlines:

• 01 July 2024: Announcement of the 2025 RISK Award topic

• 01 July – 13 October 2024 (17:00 CET): Application phase

• 24 July 2024: Online Seminar I – How to Write a RISK Award Proposal

• 25 September 2024: Online Seminar II – How to Write a RISK Award Proposal

• 01 April 2025: Individual notification of application status

• June 2025: 2025 RISK Award ceremony

Content:

• The proposal must address the specific annual RISK Award topic

• The project must be non-profit. Business development is not possible to be supported by the RISK Award.

• The proposed project must include an implementation part (action), a proposal solely based on research is not sufficient.

• The risks must be related to climate change and natural hazards.

• Risks due to social turmoil, war, chemical disasters, and/or political crises are not in the scope of the RISK Award.

• Ideas that involve the people at risk (people-centred approaches) are appreciated.

• Proposals that combine bottom-up approaches with top-down frameworks (community-based approaches) are appreciated.

• Project teams that are engaged in multi-stakeholder partnerships (different sectors, different sizes, different organisational backgrounds, PPPs) are encouraged.

How to apply?

Application process:

• Click on “Login” and create a new user account by choosing “New user? Click here”.

• Click on “Submissions” in the navigation bar and on “Add new submission” to upload your application.

• Click on “Save & submit” once your application is complete; as long as the application phase is running, you will be able to alter it afterwards.

• If you wish to continue at a later stage, just click on “Save and submit later”.

We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers at – cbarthelt@munichre-foundation.org