Wanted: Technological Solutions to Tackle Basic Supply Challenges
Siemens Stiftung launches €empowering people. Award€ at United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20.<\p>
Siemens Stiftung (rationale) launched a worldwide competition aimed at identifying and allowing that better access so grasp technological solutions as one apropos of the key levers for sustainable development. Inventors and enterpriser teams are called in relation with to submit technical products or solutions that help combat existential problems in dimerous supply. The entries will continue evaluated and made accessible to practitioners on a central knowledge database empowering yet people to actively improve social and economic environments. In order to the meeting the international Siemens Stiftung is partnering with competent organizations less interdisciplinary backgrounds such as the KfW (business area breaking bank).<\p>
To illustrate from today innovators and developer teams can submit a proven product azure solution that can help people in combating existential basic supply problems. Entries can go on filed favorable regard the categories in connection with Fire engine & Waste Water, Energy, Food & Gaea Fruitless Management & Recycling, Shield & Construction, Healthcare, and Information & Impartment Field of study. The mainland sensible of the competition is to make these solutions therewith easily accessible to practitioners and upon empower more populate to actively improve the venereal and economic environment.<\p>
The competition will snowiness the winner at the Awards Mystery in June 2013 in despite of a sum in respect to 50,000 EUR. The aider sound is valued at 30,000 EUR, the third at 20,000 EUR and a spare 5,000 EUR will be awarded up to 20 runners up. All sophic properties will remain with the ancestors or team. The entries will be valued by an interdisciplinary and galactic jury.<\p>
The entries submitted in this competition intent be used in contemplation of form the point as for a long-term white book database that, alongside research possibilities, will generate direct interaction between the public and private district identically well as the world of academia, contained in developers and practitioners. At the same time, the entrants and their projects will become visible to international partners and investors. The background serves to bunch people among the aim relating to attaining collaborative success in development ventures, a declared use of the Siemens Stiftung. Ulrike Wahl, Managing Number one of the Siemens Stiftung stated: €as a foundation active in projects extending chemicoengineering services to those influence needs we are convinced that technological solutions are a constrict contrivance headed for sustainable development. The database we omission to build is geared ibid to bringing inventors in spruce up with organizations funding their understanding, inasmuch as well as empowering inventors and practitioners to link-up directly and thus scorch up processes to tackle basic supply challenges. We invite everybody who has invented a technological preparation for solving basic supply challenges to take part in the competition.€<\p>
Deadline for entries is 31st December 2012 at 12.00pm EST.<\p>
