Challenge Prizes – Current Prizes Grant
In context
This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits and 4 others, at idea and R&D stage and prototype and pilot stage. Funding is a prize or award. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country.
Challenge Works operates a portfolio of prize competitions designed to attract innovative talent and accelerate solutions across climate, global health, cities, and emerging technologies. The grants are open to innovators and organizations working on pressing problems in these four thematic areas.
About this grant
This portfolio of challenge prizes targets innovative solutions across climate adaptation, climate software and data, and biodiversity and nature. Prizes are awarded competitively to attract talent and accelerate progress on these pressing problems. Startups, small and medium enterprises, nonprofits, universities, research institutions, individuals and consortia may apply from anywhere globally. Solutions at any stage—from early-stage ideas and research through to prototypes and pilots—are eligible. Each prize within the portfolio has its own specific eligibility criteria, funding amount and submission deadline, which vary by challenge track.
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Key requirements
- ✓Innovative solutions addressing climate, global health, cities, or technology frontiers
- ✓Competitive challenge-prize format; specific eligibility criteria vary by individual prize
- ✓Submission to specific challenge track; prize amounts and deadlines vary by opportunity
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Challenge Prizes – Current Prizes?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; startup, sme, nonprofit, university, research-institution, individual, consortium.
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Climate adaptation funding helps communities, infrastructure and businesses prepare for heat, flooding, drought and sea level rise. Most of it is public and multilateral money, often targeted at vulnerable regions and delivered with local government. Calls usually ask for a climate risk assessment and evidence that local people shaped the plan.
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