Te c h n o S p h e r e
Volume 01 | Spring 2015
Calls & Funding Opportunities
HORIZON 2020
PRIZE CHALLENGE
CAN YOU CRACK THE CHALLENGE?
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizonprize/index.cfm
Horizon Prizes are rewards presented by European Commission to
solve challenges important to Europe and surrounding countries. The
goal of the program is to draw attention to our most import societal
issues, stimulate innovation and attract a wide range of thinkers to
improve our community. Prizes range from €500,000 to €3 million.
The Prizes for Solving Technological or Societal Challenges
Better use of antibiotics: €1 million:
Awarded for a rapid test to identify, at the point of care, patients with upper respiratory tract infections that can be treated
safely without antibiotics.
Breaking the optical transmission barriers: €500,000
Awarded to a solution that maximises the fibre capacity per channel, spectrum range and/or spectral efficiency and reach
to overcome the current limitations of long-distance optical transmission systems to meet the imminent bandwidthdemand explosion.
Materials for clean air: €3 million
Awarded to the most affordable, sustainable and innovative design-driven material solution that can reduce by the greatest
amount the concentration of particulate matter in urban areas.
Collaborative spectrum sharing: €500,000
Awarded to an innovative and disruptive approach which will improve the usage of scarce spectrum resources to enable a
significant increase in spectrum sharing and re-use, beyond the currently applicable spectrum sharing methods and
centralised techniques.
Food scanner: €1 million
Awarded to a non-invasive mobile solution that will enable users to measure and analyze their food intake that analyses
precisely, quickly and efficiently food composition, nutrition facts and potentially harmful ingredients such as allergens.
Rules & Eligibility
The contest will be open to any single person and legal entity or groups of legal entities established in EU Member States
or in countries associated to Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme.
There are no specific rules on how to achieve the solution, and contestants (companies, organizations or individual
persons) are free to submit any development of a technological solution that meets the criteria of the challenge.
The winner receives a financial reward, in the form of a cash prize, and will also benefit from media coverage and the
possibility to attract investors.
For more information, contact Atmosfer TTO to see how we can support you.
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