World Habitat Awards 2020
World Habitat, in collaboration with UN-Habitat, has announced the 2020 World Habitat Awards. The Awards recognizes and highlights innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programs from across the world.
Entrants are asked to create housing projects and approaches that demonstrate practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing issues faced by countries all around the world; can be transferred or adapted for use as appropriate; are already being implemented or are completed ie not at design stage or very early stages of development; and view the term habitat from a broad perspective and bring other benefits as well, such as energy or water saving, income generation, social inclusion, community and individual empowerment, health benefits, capacity building or education.
Entries to the 2020 competition can be made from January 1st until March 23, 2020.
Our World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.
More than 250 outstanding World Habitat Awards projects have been recognised over the years, demonstrating substantial, lasting improvements in living conditions.
Each year two winners receive £10,000 each and a trophy, presented at a global UN-Habitat event.
Entries to the 2020 competition can be made from Wednesday 1 January 2020 until Monday 23 March 2020.
