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General

Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition

Royal Society of Biology

An annual biology-themed photography competition with junior and open categories, celebrating images that capture the diversity of life sciences.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#biology
Apply → rsb.org.uk
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General

Banff Mountain Photo Essay Contest

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

A photo-essay competition (3-5 images with narrative) capturing mountain culture, adventure sport, or wildlife, judged as part of Canada's renowned mountain festival.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#outdoors
Apply → banffcentre.ca
Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest at Smithsonian Magazine
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Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Smithsonian Magazine

An annual photography contest across categories like natural world, travel, and people, with a notable grand prize and category winners featured in the magazine.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
Apply → smithsonianmag.com
Sony World Photography Awards at World Photography Organisation / Sony
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Sony World Photography Awards

World Photography Organisation / Sony

One of the largest global photography competitions, spanning professional, open, student, and youth categories, with winners announced at a London ceremony and gear prizes.

📍 Global (online); ceremony in LondonPaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
Apply → worldphoto.org
Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition at Nikon
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Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

Nikon

The world's leading photomicrography competition, recognizing the best images and videos captured through a light microscope, with a substantial grand prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#photography#science
Apply → nikonsmallworld.com
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Early Career

Global Peter Drucker Forum Essay Contest

Global Peter Drucker Forum

An essay contest on management, leadership, and economic themes tied to the annual Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna, with cash prizes and a funded trip to the conference for winners.

📍 Global (online); event in ViennaPaidMedium
#competition#essay#management
Apply → druckerforum.org
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Student

World History Association Student Essay Contest

World History Association

An essay contest inviting secondary students to reflect on the value of studying world history, with a cash prize for the top entry.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#essay#history
Apply → thewha.org
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Early Career

World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists

World Trade Organization

An essay award encouraging original economic research on international trade policy, open to PhD students and young researchers, with a cash prize and possible publication.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#essay#economics
Apply → wto.org
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Student

American Society of Human Genetics DNA Day Essay Contest

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

An essay contest for high schoolers on a genetics-related prompt tied to National DNA Day, judged by genetics professionals with cash prizes for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#genetics
Apply → ashg.org
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Student

Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest

Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)

A literary-analysis essay contest on Jane Austen's novels across three academic levels (high school, college, graduate), with cash prizes for each category.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#literature
Apply → jasna.org
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Student

Cambridge Re:think Essay Competition

University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall)

An essay competition spanning moral, political, scientific, and philosophical prompts for secondary school students, with a substantial combined cash prize pool.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
Apply → rethinkessaycompetition.wordpress.com
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Student

Woolf Essay Prize

Newnham College, University of Cambridge

An essay prize for female secondary school students responding to an annually set prompt, named for Virginia Woolf, with book-token prizes for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#women
Apply → newn.cam.ac.uk
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Student

St Hugh's College Sixth Form Essay Competitions

University of Oxford (St Hugh's College)

A set of multi-subject essay competitions for secondary school students on Oxford-style set questions, offering cash prizes and academic feedback.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#oxford
Apply → st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
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Student

Trinity College Cambridge Essay Prizes

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

A series of subject essay prizes (law, history, literature, linguistics) for secondary school students, judged by Trinity College fellows, with the prize split between student and school.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
Apply → trin.cam.ac.uk
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Student

Fitzwilliam College Essay Competitions

Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

A set of subject-specific essay competitions (across humanities and social sciences) for pre-university students, with cash prizes and feedback from Cambridge academics.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
Apply → fitz.cam.ac.uk
The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition at Royal Commonwealth Society
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The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition

Royal Commonwealth Society

The world's oldest international schools' writing competition, inviting essays on Commonwealth-related themes across junior and senior age categories, with winners honored at a London ceremony.

📍 Global (online); ceremony in LondonPaidMedium
#competition#essay#commonwealth
Apply → thercs.org
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Student

Ayn Rand Institute Essay Contests (Anthem, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged)

Ayn Rand Institute

A set of annual essay contests open to students on Ayn Rand's novels Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, each with a tiered cash prize pool and separate age brackets.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#literature
Apply → aynrand.org
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Student

UNESCO Clubs Worldwide Multimedia Contest

UNESCO Clubs

A multimedia (video, essay, or art) competition inviting youth to propose ways their community can advance a specific UN Sustainable Development Goal, with a US-based youth camp invitation for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#sdgs#multimedia
Apply → unescocentre.org.uk
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Student

Davis Fellows for Peace (Middlebury Language Schools)

Middlebury College / Projects for Peace

A fellowship fully covering the cost of an intensive summer language-immersion program at Middlebury's Language Schools for students committed to peacebuilding work.

📍 Middlebury, Vermont, USAPaidMedium
#fellowship#language#peacebuilding
Apply → middlebury.edu
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Student

Breakthrough Generation Fellowship

The Breakthrough Institute

A ten-week paid fellowship in Berkeley, California, training college students in environmental and energy policy through an ecomodernist lens, including original research and writing.

📍 Berkeley, California, USAPaidMedium
#fellowship#climate-policy#research
Apply → thebreakthrough.org
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General

UNESCO-UNEVOC Skills in Action Photo Competition

UNESCO-UNEVOC

A photography competition documenting technical and vocational skills development around the world, intended to highlight the human side of workforce training.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#vocational-education
Apply → unevoc.unesco.org
Obama Foundation Voyager Scholarship at Obama Foundation / Airbnb
Student

Obama Foundation Voyager Scholarship

Obama Foundation / Airbnb

A scholarship and summer travel-fellowship for undergraduates committed to public service, combining tuition support with a funded storytelling trip abroad.

📍 United States (with international travel component)PaidHard
#scholarship#public-service#travel
Apply → obama.org
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Student

PROMYS India

PROMYS / Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

A fully funded five-week intensive mathematics research program at IISc Bangalore, modeled on the original PROMYS program at Boston University, built around discovery-based problem sets.

📍 Bangalore, IndiaPaidHard
#program#mathematics#india
Apply → promys-india.org
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Student

Smart India Hackathon

Government of India (Ministry of Education)

India's largest national hackathon, where student teams build working solutions to real problem statements submitted by government ministries and industry partners over a 36-hour build.

📍 IndiaPaidHard
#hackathon#india#team
Apply → sih.gov.in
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Early Career

Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism

Reuters / Durham University

A nine-month fellowship pairing early-career journalists with Reuters mentors to build investigative-reporting skills, combining newsroom placement with academic study at Durham.

📍 United KingdomPaidHard
#fellowship#journalism#investigative
Apply → durham.ac.uk
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Early Career

World Economic Forum Early Careers Programme

World Economic Forum

A six-month, paid early-career program placing recent graduates in WEF offices worldwide across research, partnerships, and communications functions.

📍 Multiple WEF offices worldwidePaidHard
#job#policy#global-governance
Apply → weforum.org
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Founder

We Empower UN SDG Challenge

UN Women

A challenge recognizing women-led businesses that advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals through their core commercial operations, with a cash grant opportunity for finalists.

📍 Global (regional finalists)PaidMedium
#challenge#women-entrepreneurs#sdgs
Apply → weempowerprogram.org
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Student

Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes

Stanford University

An online summer learning program for high schoolers built around critical thinking and interdisciplinary problem solving rather than a single subject track.

📍 Remote (online)PaidMedium
#program#pre-college#summer
Apply → spcs.stanford.edu
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Student

Microsoft Imagine Cup

Microsoft

A global student technology competition where teams build a working product using Microsoft's cloud and AI tools, with mentorship and a path to Microsoft's startup programs.

📍 Global (online, world finals in-person)PaidHard
#competition#technology#startup
Apply → imaginecup.microsoft.com
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow at Samsung
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Samsung Solve for Tomorrow

Samsung

A competition challenging students to design a product, app, or service idea that solves a real-world community problem, with incubation support for finalist teams.

📍 Multiple countriesPaidMedium
#competition#innovation#product-design
Apply → samsung.com
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