SUSTAINABILITY CULTURE

We are delighted to announce that our 2026 competition theme is Sustainability Culture.

The competition is free to enter for all students worldwide between 7 and 18 years of age. Students are warmly invited to participate by submitting ONE (1) single entry each. All entries must be submitted on our TSL Competition Platform by a registered Teacher Champion, so please create a teacher/parent account if you don’t already have one.

In the TSL 2026 International Student Competition, we want to hear what young people think about SUSTAINABILITY CULTURE!

For example,

what does “sustainability culture” (or its opposite) look like?

Can you imagine a world in which sustainable cultural practices are the norm?

How do our existing cultural practices need to change?

Are there any examples of cultures, past or present, which we can learn from?

These are just a few examples of ways students may wish to approach the topic, but all perspectives are welcome, as long as their entries are focused on SUSTAINABILITY CULTURE in some way. Please remember: creative and original submissions are strongly encouraged, and entries are welcome in a broad variety of media.

TSL wants to help young people develop a sense of agency and empowerment, by creating a safe and supportive space to explore their thoughts and feelings on SUSTAINABILITY CULTURE. We are open to accepting a very wide range of responses, e.g. artwork, music, video, news or opinion piece, podcast, vodcast, poem, essay, letter, story. There are few restrictions on the type of work which can be submitted. We want students to be open and creative when interpreting the theme (as long as their entries meet the submission criteria).