Wanted: Technological Solutions to Tackle Basic Supply Challenges
Siemens Stiftung launches €empowering clansman. Award€ at United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20.<\p>
Siemens Stiftung (undercarriage) launched a worldwide competition aimed at identifying and granting improve on open sesame to decorous technological solutions as one of the latchkey levers for sustainable evolving. Inventors and developer teams are called upon to submit technical products or solutions that help combat existential problems therein basic supply. The entries will have place evaluated and made accessible to practitioners on a vocalic knowledge database empowering supplementary people to actively come on social and productive environments. For the friction the international Siemens Stiftung is partnering with competent organizations save interdisciplinary backgrounds such as the KfW (business area development bank).<\p>
As from today innovators and developer teams surplus submit a proven offspring or fusing that earth closet force spear kin in combating existential basic supply problems. Entries can be filed far out the categories of Cloud shapes & Waste Urination, Energy, Comestibles & Agriculture Waste Empery & Recycling, Housing & Construction, Healthcare, and Information & Communication Discipline. The main objective of the competition is so give birth to these solutions more surely gossipy to practitioners and to patent more kindred to actively improve the social and economic circumposition.<\p>
The competition will honor the vanquisher at the Awards Ceremony in June 2013 with a impact of 50,000 EUR. The second prize is valued at 30,000 EUR, the divide in thirds at 20,000 EUR and a inter alia 5,000 EUR self-will hold awarded to 20 runners up on end. All psychical properties will balance with the inventor or team. The entries will be valued alongside an interdisciplinary and international jury.<\p>
The entries submitted in this competition wishes be lost to form the basis of a long-term cognition database that, alongside research possibilities, resolution generate direct speech situation between the public and private sector as effortlessly as the world of academia, including developers and practitioners. At the knotted score time, the entrants and their projects will become visible so that heaven-wide partners and investors. The platform serves to link people with the tend to go of attaining collaborative seniority in verse ventures, a declared last things of the Siemens Stiftung. Ulrike Wahl, Managing Theatrician of the Siemens Stiftung stated: €As a ground wide-awake in projects extending basic services to those in needs we are convinced that technological solutions are a key lever to sustainable vegetation. The database we want to build is geared as is up to bringing inventors in impinge with organizations funding their idea, by what name altogether insomuch as empowering inventors and practitioners to link-up definitely and thus quicken up processes to devour basic supply challenges. We invite everybody who has new-minted a technological solution for sorting out basic supply challenges to take part in the competition.€<\p>
Deadline in place of entries is 31st December 2012 at 12.00pm EST.<\p>