Wege Prize 2026

Big ideas for making the world better can earn big money for college and university students.

Now through October 5th, applications are open for Wege Prize 2026, the international design competition where top teams win a prize pool of $65,000 USD for their sustainable, circular approaches to solving some of today’s biggest problems in pollution, hunger, waste and more.

Wege Prize winners in the past few years included African students with a charcoal cooling concept that slashes post-harvest losses for vegetable farmers, U.S. students with an innovative wastewater treatment technique to extract raw materials for reuse, and a multinational team turning India’s banana crop waste into a fashionable faux leather.

Have an exciting idea to share? See details at www.wegeprize.org/apply