Longitude Prize Grant
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This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits and 5 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.
Longitude Prize is a major challenge prize initiative run by Challenge Works that invites solutions to pressing global problems across health, climate, cities, and technology sectors. The programme is open to innovators and organizations worldwide to submit ideas and compete for prize funding to address systemic global challenges.
About this grant
The Longitude Prize is a prestigious international challenge prize programme designed and delivered by Challenge Works that incentivises scientists, researchers, and innovators to find practical solutions to pressing global challenges. The programme offers substantial financial and non-financial rewards to successful teams or individuals, including one grand prize and support throughout their journey. Longitude Prizes have historically addressed critical issues such as antibiotic resistance, dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The current cycle is searching for the next Longitude Prize challenge, with 27 candidate ideas spanning four priority areas: climate response, cities and societies, global health, and frontier technology. The specific challenge for each prize is determined based on critical needs and priorities of society, ensuring relevance, urgency, and impact.
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Eligibility
The Longitude Prize is open to scientists, researchers, and innovators globally who can develop solutions to the defined challenge criteria. Specific eligibility details for individual prizes vary, but historically the prizes have been open to international teams and individuals.
Key requirements
- ✓Submit ideas addressing global problems in health, climate, cities, or technology
- ✓Ideas evaluated by Board of Longitude oversight committee
- ✓Participation via Prize Ideas board submission process
- ✓Solutions must address pressing global challenges with measurable impact potential
Recent past awardees
Knowing who's won the last rounds tells you whether you're in the strike zone.
- CrossSense · 2026
- Sysmex Astrego · 2022
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Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for Longitude Prize?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; startup, sme, nonprofit, university, research-institution, social-enterprise, consortium, individual. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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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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