Global Design Challenge 2021
A worldwide search for ambitious, innovative ideas to get people physically active is to be launched by University College Cork, UNESCO, and Sport Ireland - with up to €10,000 going to the best concepts.
On June 7 the Global Design Challenge for Sport and Physical Activity will open for registration, as part of a bid to engage more people in sport and physical activity following a year of lockdown and restrictions that have seen participation levels plummet.
The Global Design Challenge for Sport and Physical Activity has Development Grants of up to €10,000 for the winning teams, and mentors and partner organisations ready to help turn ideas into real campaigns and initiatives.
In 2020, nearly 200 teams from around the world entered the Global Design Challenge, but this year, with the sponsorship of Sport Ireland, the partners behind the scheme are aiming for twice that number, to crack the specific challenges in sport and physical activity, and in particular to find innovative ways to:
- Remove barriers that are preventing the inclusion of all people in sport and physical activity regardless of physical ability, age, race or socio-economic background
- Inspire community-level engagement in physical activity
- Bring participants, volunteers and fans back to sport and physical activity
- Use sport as a means to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals in a practical way
- Reimagine how space is used by sport and physical activity to make it more sustainable and resilient to shocks and change
- Motivate children and youth to engage in sport and physical activity, that leads to life-long interest
- Harness technology to radically change the way sport and physical activity are imagined
- Integrate sport and physical activity into leisure and lifestyle activities e.g., cycling for transport, gardening for food security.
If you have innovative ideas, which could solve any of these challenges, come and join us in trying to get people more physically active.
The challenge is free to enter!
The challenge runs from 21 - 27 June and submission requirements are available on the website, along with webinars and supporting materials to help you.
Submissions will be judged according to:
- Creativity and innovation in sport and physical activity
- Impact on the identified challenge and towards the Sustainable Development Goals
- Feasibility of successful practical implementation of the idea
To join the challenge, go to gdc2021.devpost.com, register, start gathering your team and enter this initiative to find innovative ideas to get people physically active.
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