Deadline: 3 March 2024
Nominations are now open for the World Habitat Awards to recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.
More than 360 outstanding World Habitat Awards projects have been recognised over the years, demonstrating substantial, lasting improvements in living conditions.
The awards, programmes, networks and publications help to:
- generate great ideas and identify best housing practice from around the world
- transfer those ideas and practices to where they are needed most
- develop and cultivate ideas so they benefit people who need them
Prize and Benefits
- Winning a World Habitat Award provides international visibility and acts as a mark of recognition that a housing solution is innovative, exceptional and exciting.
- In addition, the two Gold Award winning projects receive a prize fund of £10,000 each.
- Trophies are also presented to the two Gold Award winning projects at a special Awards Ceremony, and travel and accommodation costs are met for one representative of each project to attend.
- All award winners (Bronze, Silver and Gold) are invited to join the World Habitat Award Network, consisting of a group of former winners and finalists of the competition since 1986. Every year, the new winners join the Network and every year it grows from strength to strength. They organise online and in person meetings for Network members to learn about each other’s practice in the field of housing. Members can share information with the Network through a dedicated LinkedIn group and reach out to other members to explore synergies and collaborations.
- Gold Award winners also receive individualised support from World Habitat for a year, through their exChange Programme, to help develop their projects and programmes and promote their impact to wider audiences.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone representing or collaborating on an innovative project in the field of housing is welcome to enter: individuals, NGOs, public institutions, private initiatives, academia, United Nations programmes, etc.
- Applications are welcome from anywhere in the world.
- To be eligible, applications:
- must be related to housing.
- must concern projects that are either in progress or finished less than ten years ago, from the date the call for entries closes.
- cannot be a grant application.
For more information, visit World Habitat.
