{"id":1435,"date":"2025-02-06T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:23:02","slug":"2026-world-habitat-awards-for-innovative-solutions-to-key-housing-challenges-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Habitat Awards for Innovative solutions to key Housing Challenges around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"header-standard\n\t\t\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"penci-meta-author standard-top-meta author-post byline\">Application Deadline: \u00a03 March 2025.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-content\">\n<div class=\"standard-main-content entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-entry standard-post-entry classic-post-entry blockquote-style-1 \">\n<p><strong>Applications are now open for the<\/strong>\u00a02026 World Habitat Awards.\u00a0The World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.\u00a0 More than 360 outstanding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/world-habitat.org\/world-habitat-awards\/winners-and-finalists\/?fwp_year=2019\">World Habitat Awards projects<\/a>\u00a0have been recognised over the years, demonstrating substantial, lasting improvements in living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Each year two winners\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/world-habitat.org\/world-habitat-awards\/prize\/\">receive \u00a310,000 each and a trophy<\/a>, presented at a global\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unhabitat.org\/events\/\">UN-Habitat event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"2025 World Habitat Award Winners Announced\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hCd8OL3oGW4?feature=oembed\" name=\"fitvid0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Eligibility Criteria<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be eligible, applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>must be related to housing.<\/li>\n<li>must concern projects that are either in progress or finished less than ten years ago, from the date the call for entries closes (3 March 2025).<\/li>\n<li>cannot be a grant application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prizes and Benefits<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winning a World Habitat Award provides international visibility and acts as a mark of recognition that a housing solution is innovative, exceptional and exciting.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, the two Gold Award winning projects receive a prize fund of \u00a310,000 each.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For More Information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/world-habitat.org\/world-habitat-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit the Official Webpage of the World Habitat Awards<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Deadline: \u00a03 March 2025. Applications are now open for the\u00a02026 World Habitat Awards.\u00a0The World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.\u00a0 More than 360 outstanding\u00a0World Habitat Awards projects\u00a0have been recognised over the years, demonstrating substantial, lasting improvements in living conditions. 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