The deadline to submit applications is 31 December 2012
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.
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