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We are proud to announce the launch of the WILDLABS Awards 2025: Supporting accessible, affordable, and effective innovation for nature.  

With the support of Arm, the WILDLABS Awards support the advancement of conservation technology with $350,000 distributed across up to 15 projects. Building on our 2024 experience, we have refined the format of this year’s awards. In 2025, there will be two grant levels instead of three, with an additional grant available. 

Similar to 2024, these awards will support projects for up to one year that are bridging the gap between technology and conservation. These awards are open to both technology developers building or scaling new technologies for conservation applications, and conservation practitioners and researchers leveraging existing technologies in their work. Awardees will receive tailored support for their projects, regardless of their focus. Whether you're developing new technologies, putting your expertise to use in the field, building collaborative tools and content for the global conservation tech community, or exploring cutting-edge innovations, you have the opportunity to find the support you need through the WILDLABS Awards. 

Apply here! 

Award Details 

We are distributing two tiers of grants to up to 15 projects with one year of funding to advance their conservation technology work:

• $50,000 grants for five projects
• $10,000 grants for ten projects

Other awardee benefits include: 

• Access to a public platform to share and publish progress and results
• Project coverage through Arm and WILDLABS communication channels, including virtual events, case studies, and interviews.
• Support from the WILDLABS team to ensure that project updates and results are shared widely throughout our community and beyond
• Access to Arm’s community of technology experts and the WILDLABS community of conservation technology experts

Key Dates

• Launch: 21 November 2024
• Informative webinar: 19 December 2024
• Applications Close: 13 February 2025
• Selection: February - March 2025
• Award Given: April - May 2025

What are we looking for? 

There are three main types of projects that the WILDLABS Awards support:  

• Fostering Innovation (primarily for technology projects): We aim to support innovation projects grounded in solving real conservation needs. We expect these projects to test and pilot technology solutions with end-user needs that have already been identified.   

• Technology Adoption and Application (primarily for conservation projects): We aim to support conservation projects that integrate technology to broaden the reach and impact of their initiatives. We expect these projects to be led by conservation practitioners and researchers and may also involve collaborations with tech providers to improve/adapt existing tools to conservation situations. We hope the findings support the adoption of technology for other conservation projects. 

• Usability & Scaling (for conservation and technology projects): We aim to support projects that make technology more accessible and available. This means improving usability and bridging the gap between R&D projects and available technologies for conservationists to use in their work. We will also support work that transforms project ideas into products, helps scale manufacturing, and deploys already piloted technologies. 

Across all project types and award categories, cross-sector collaboration and interdisciplinary work is highly encouraged.   

Read more about last year's 13 awardees here. 

Image credits: Greg Marshall/National Geographic Society
 

Who is Arm? 

Arm is the industry’s highest-performing and most power-efficient compute platform with unmatched scale that touches 100 percent of the connected global population. To meet the insatiable demand for compute, Arm is delivering advanced solutions that allow the world’s leading technology companies to unleash the unprecedented experiences and capabilities of AI. Together with the world’s largest computing ecosystem and 20 million software developers, we are building the future of AI on Arm.

Why is Arm a partner in these Awards? 

Arm is building the future of computing. The high-performing, power-efficient Arm compute platform is now enabling advanced computing in more than 300 billion chips worldwide, securely powering products from the sensor to the smartphone, the supercomputer and leading AI-enabled devices.

Arm focuses on minimising environmental impact and maximising societal impact. Arm has a long heritage of responsible innovation, investing in people and technologies that help build a better world for everyone, and addressing areas where we can have a direct impact. 

As our partner in the WILDLABS Awards 2025, Arm is looking to discover new projects and partners in the conservation tech ecosystem that could benefit from their funding, technology, or pro-bono support. Through this program, Arm is looking to support projects with their ecosystem of technology partners. From Audiomoth, Raspberry Pi and Arduino, from wearables to smartphones, sensors to supercomputers, Arm powers the conservation tech sector.

These awards aim to find and support people and projects in our community that could use additional funding, mentoring, training, or technology to tackle meaningful conservation challenges.

Partnerships between conservationists and the tech industry take time and access to establish and manage. Through these Awards, we hope to help facilitate relationships between our community and tech companies that have made meaningful commitments, as Arm has, to conservation. 

As part of your application, we will ask for details about the technology your proposal involves. Sharing the details of your technologies will help us understand how Arm can help your work and, if additional support is required, match you with other technology companies in their broader network. 

To help you answer this question, you can find examples of Arm-based technologies here. Free educational resources, including online courses, can also be found here.  

Image credits: Ollie Wearn

Selection Criteria, Judging and Further Information

• Find a complete description of the Awards and all relevant information on our Further Information page 
• Attend our webinar on the 19th of December, to meet the WILDLABS and Arm teams. We will present the programme, lessons learned from last year and answer your questions. 
• Drop a question in this Q&A discussion thread
• To know more about the lessons learned from the WILDLABS Awards 2024, please read this article where Adrien, our programme manager, shared his thoughts about what makes a successful application

How do I apply?  

• Review the WILDLABS Awards 2025 Terms and Conditions
• Complete the WILDLABS Awards Application Form
• The deadline for submissions is 13 February 2025 at 23:55 GMT

Contact us

If you have any questions about the awards, please contact awards@wildlabs.net.