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Masdar (Zayed Sustainability Prize)
Zayed Sustainability Prize
Amount
up to $1,000,000
Deadline
Jun 15, 2026
Odds
~7 winners/year
Can you get this?
✓Open to enterprises, nonprofits, and schools
✓Solutions must be innovative and scalable
✓Global applicants eligible; no geographic restriction stated
✓Prize fund is US $7.2 million total
Your real odds
128 winners across 18 years works out to roughly 7 per annual cycle across all categories, so the odds are thin regardless of which category you enter.
The $7.2M prize fund is distributed across multiple categories from a global applicant pool, and the prize consistently favors solutions with demonstrated, measurable impact at scale rather than early-stage concepts.
What it takes
Submit your application online
Await shortlist and finalist announcement
Attend awards ceremony
Worth knowing
The 2027 cycle opened in January 2026 and runs about a year from submission to the award ceremony, so you are committing to a long timeline. Solutions that show large-population impact on access to clean energy, water, food, or healthcare appear to be what actually wins.
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