Think-eat-save Student Challenge invites all food waste warriors in high schools and universities worldwide to fight food waste and compete for thousands of dollars of prizes.

The competition is open to all students at the secondary and university levels from any school worldwide.
To participate, students must undertake an activity or a project that will address any of the following:
– Assess the level of food waste that is generated by the school and identify/understand the causes of this;
– Generate an idea or ideas for eliminating or reducing food waste in their schools (for example, better planning, preparation, storage, consumption of the food in their cafeterias; recycling or redistribution of left-overs) and undertaking a project to implement at least one of these;
– Raise awareness in their schools or communities on the issue of food waste and why it should be reduced and eventually eliminated.

Entries can be submitted in any of the six UN official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Three winning projects will be selected and will receive cash prizes from US$ 5,000
to US$ 2,000.

Deadline: was 30 November 2014.

Find out more: http://www.thinkeatsave.org/studentchallenge/?next=who