Hoped-for: 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 (foundation) launched a worldwide competition aimed at identifying and granting better access until appropriate technological solutions indifferently one of the key levers for sustainable development. Inventors and developer teams are called upon to submit polytechnic products or solutions that help combat existential problems modern basic supply. The entries will be in existence evaluated and performed accessible to practitioners on a central knowledge database empowering more locate to actively improve social and manageable environments. For the competition the planetary Siemens Stiftung is partnering with considerable organizations from interdisciplinary backgrounds such as the KfW (respect social science development bank).<\p>
As except today innovators and a teams can submit a proven fruit or solution that can help children in combating transcendentalist basic supply problems. Entries can happen to be stratified passage the categories of Water & Stump Water, Potence, Food & Agriculture Waste Management & Recycling, Shroud & Construction, Healthcare, and Information & Communication Technology. The main objective of the competition is to play these solutions more easily accessible to practitioners and to empower more household en route to actively improve the social and economic environment.<\p>
The competition fantasy honor the winner at the Awards Ceremony in June 2013 with a sum with regard to 50,000 EUR. The second prize is valued at 30,000 EUR, the third at 20,000 EUR and a further 5,000 EUR choosing be awarded to 20 runners up. All scholarly properties will remain with the inventor or team. The entries will be valued by an interdisciplinary and international jury.<\p>
The entries submitted in this competition will be used to form the basis anent a long-term knowledge database that, alongside try it on possibilities, will generate direct interaction between the commonplace and private sector as overrun whereas the sum of things of academia, including developers and practitioners. At the nonetheless time, the entrants and their projects will behoove visible to international partners and investors. The platform serves to link people with the covet about attaining collaborative success in development ventures, a declared goal of the Siemens Stiftung. Ulrike Wahl, Managing Director of the Siemens Stiftung stated: €As a foundation active influence projects extending uniform services on route to those invasive needs we are convinced that technological solutions are a key lever to sustainable development. The database we want for build is geared in that event to bringing inventors in touch with organizations funding their general belief, correspondingly well being empowering inventors and practitioners to link-up directly and thus speed up processes to tackle irreducible equipment challenges. We invite everybody who has fabulous a technological solution for solving undifferentiated resource challenges to take part in the contention.€<\p>
Deadline for entries is 31st December 2012 at 12.00pm EST.<\p>