The
Siemens Foundation has announced the ‘empowering people.Award’ – a new
worldwide international competition to seek appropriate technical solutions for
developmental activities. It aims to directly bring together low tech
innovations for basic supply problems in developing countries. It also intends
to build up a database of inventions that is accessible to actors in
developmental cooperation at a later date.
Following
are the categories under which the ideas can be submitted:
- Water & Waste Water
- Energy
- Food & Agriculture
- Waste Management & Recycling
- Housing & Construction
- Healthcare
- Information & Communication Technology.
The
Foundation has a sum of approximately 200,000
EUR which includes 50,000 EUR as the first prize,
30,000 EUR as the second prize and 20,000 EUR as the third prize. Besides, 20
runners up will receive 5,000 EUR each.
All
nominees will be requested to attend the Awards Ceremony in summer 2013 where
they will have the opportunity to meet
representatives from the world of politics, science, media and technology.
Applications
have to be submitted online. The deadline to submit applications is 31 December
2012. For more information, visit this link.
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