Deadline: 05-Sep-2025
The National Climate Contest engages schoolchildren in creating practical, socially impactful projects to tackle climate change. It promotes climate education, youth innovation, and project-based learning focused on mitigation, adaptation, and raising public awareness.
The contest uses the Climate Box educational toolkit developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its partners. This toolkit has been successfully implemented in regions such as Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
The contest aims to foster project-based learning, encourage collaboration among schools, and nurture creativity among students and teachers. It seeks to educate a generation equipped with the knowledge and skills to combat climate change and analyze complex issues from multiple perspectives. It also promotes valuing harmony between humans and nature, developing solutions to sustainability challenges, and strengthening youth involvement with the UNDP Sustainable Development Agenda.
Projects must fit into one of three categories: reducing carbon footprint, adapting to climate change, or public awareness campaigns. Eligible projects should be based on the Climate Box toolkit and clearly relate to climate change through practical or socially relevant implementation. Visual materials such as photos or videos should accompany submissions. Fully implemented projects are highly encouraged.
Projects that lack practical results, are purely theoretical, or do not align with the contest themes or use the Climate Box are not eligible.
The contest is open to schoolchildren aged 8 to 17 from educational institutions in Thailand. Projects may be developed by groups of up to five students, though only one student will present the project in the final stage. Teachers and supervisors must guide students, and collaboration with community members or organizations is encouraged.
Projects will be evaluated based on their relevance to climate change, quality of content, practical implementation, innovation, and clarity of presentation. Judges look for well-defined goals, structured methodology, measurable impact, originality, and engaging delivery.
Applicants must upload a project description (in Thai or English) and a visual presentation, including images or graphics. Media files like photos or videos can also be attached.
Finalists will present their projects in person during an event in Bangkok in the first week of October 2025. One student representative and one supervising teacher must attend. Presentations will last seven minutes, followed by a three-minute Q&A session.
For more information, visit UNDP.
