Apply for an Award

2026 application deadline: Tuesday, March 31

Are you part of a project or initiative that is using education to promote sustainability or advance the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals?

Would wider recognition of your work help strengthen your ability to continue it?  Consider applying for a 2026 Recognition Award!

Remember that education isn’t just about schools.  In the context of sustainability, education is a broad concept that includes activities in formal education, non-formal education, and informal education:

2025 RCE Saskatchewan Award Recipients, May 30, Luther College, Regina

Formal Education includes school systems from kindergarten to the end of high school, as well as technical institutes, colleges, and universities.

Non-formal Education includes education, training, and public awareness that occurs through organizations outside the formal school system, such as businesses and community-based organizations. 

Informal Education includes educational activities aimed at the general public, such as public and social media (e.g., news and film), as well as events and campaigns.  

The deadline to submit your application for the 2026 ESD Recognition Awards is March 31, 2026. 

Preparing Your Application

To help you prepare, below is an Application Guide. The Working Application Template is optional and may be used to help you answer the questions at your own pace and save your submission for your records.

2026 APPLICATION GUIDE PDF
WORKING APPLICATION TEMPLATE PDF

To submit your application, enter your responses into the online submission form below only. Do not email the Working Application Template. These applications will not be accepted.

Apply for a 2026 RCE SK Recognition Award: Submission Form

Apply for a 2026 RCE SK Recognition Award: Submission Form

Adjudicators will look for clear descriptions of:
• The “where, why, what, when and how” of your project.
• The Education for Sustainable Development component(s) of your project.
• How your project supports Sustainable Development and one or more the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
• The accomplishments and milestone(s) that your project achieved by March 31, 2026.
• How your project may contribute to ongoing momentum toward sustainability.

Adjudicators will reject applications that:
• Focus on academic publications without community engagement or public education.
• Have not gone beyond proof of concept or implementation and are mainly theoretical.
• Appears to be supporting a partisan political agenda.
• Promote any activity that is deemed environmentally unsustainable and regress the Sustainable Development Goals.

Questions marked with an asterisk are required; others should be answered if applicable to your project.

Please send supporting documents or contact the Event Coordinator at rcesk.event@gmail.com.

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May we post a link from our website to your project information?
May we publish photos of your participation at the Awards Ceremony?
Check any educational approaches that apply to your project.
Which of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals does your project help to advance? Check all that apply

If you have questions, documents, or photos related to your project that you wish to submit, please send them to the Event Coordinator at rcesk.event@gmail.com before March 31.