King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award: call for application open!
If you have organized an outstanding WSD event for the 2019 campaign ‘Stop soil erosion, Save our future’, don’t miss the chance to win the King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award, edition 2020. The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is pleased to invite all participants to last year campaign to apply: individuals, institutions, NGOs, academia, universities & colleges, private companies, or other entities.
Sponsored by the Kingdom of Thailand, the award consists of a medal, a USD 15 000 check and a trip to Thailand. The Award Laureate will be honored on 5 December 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand, in conjunction with the World Soil Day, 5 December 2020 celebration. It aims to honor and encourage organizers of WSD events at all levels.
The call for application 2020 should be submitted by 30 September 2020 to the GSP Secretariat ([email protected]) in any of the official UN languages.
Along with the application form, you are invited to complete and send the following to the GSP Secretariat:
- High quality photographs (preferably accompanied by captions)
- Videos (showing the work in progress and the results)
- Communication material or any related publications
- Digital coverage (website/web stories/ blog/social media)
- Demonstrated wide appeal in the media (i.e. media coverage and press release)
Organizers must submit testimony or proof of the success and the impact their WSD celebration had in communities as well as their power in raising awareness for the cause of healthy soils.
For more information, please check the dedicated brochure here.