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Our Priorities Climate Response Explorations Global Health Resilient Society Technology Frontiers Our Team Our Partners The Longitude Committee About Our Work About Our Work Our Method Practice Guide Our Impact 10 Year Report Case Studies Reports New Prize Ideas Broader Programmes Challenge Prizes Get Involved Get Involved Fund a Challenge Prize Enter a Challenge Prize Be an Ambassador Challenge Works events News and Views News and Views Case Studies Reports Contact Us Our Priorities Climate Response Explorations Global Health Resilient Society Technology Frontiers Our Team Our Partners The Longitude Committee About Our Work About Our Work Our Method Practice Guide Our Impact 10 Year Report Case Studies Reports New Prize Ideas Broader Programmes Challenge Prizes Get Involved Get Involved Fund a Challenge Prize Enter a Challenge Prize Be an Ambassador Challenge Works events News and Views News and Views Case Studies Reports Contact Us Unearthing the unexpected Solving the world’s biggest problems We run innovation challenge prizes We attract innovative talent, incentivise progress and nurture radical ideas We’ve set 93 challenges over 10 years with a total prize pot of £258.7M We unlock change and make the world a better place Discover what we do Our Challenge Prizes Our Current Challenge Prizes Our New Prize Ideas Our Broader Programmes Our priority areas Climate Response We work to create innovations that help planet earth and its people tackle the climate crisis together. Global Health We support innovation that helps people to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and chronic health conditions. Resilient Society We make it easier for people to access the services, opportunities and networks they need. Technology Frontiers We harness new areas of science and technology, using them to work towards a better society and a brighter future. Explorations We’re open to inspiring ideas in other areas too. Where it’s clear that impact is needed and that a challenge prize could help. What are our objectives? Create breakthrough innovations By guiding and incentivising radical thinkers, we create better, more diverse solutions, providing low-risk chances to support long shots, radical ideas and unusual suspects. Help innovators thrive We know that great things happen when people come together, so we incentivise thinkers and creators in a supportive, open and rewarding environment. Whether they win or not, all our innovators benefit. Unlock systemic change The solutions discovered in our challenge prizes go on to shape the future development of markets and technologies. Challenge prizes can help identify best practice, shift regulation and even drive policy change. Our Impact 0 challenge prizes 0 winners 0 finalists 0 innovator teams around the world working to solve key challenges. 0 M people engaged in helping to develop our finalists’ solutions and bring them to life. £ 0 M Distributed to innovators and participating teams in prizes and seed funding. Our Partners Challenge Works have been an excellent challenge partner in the delivery of the competition phase of the Climate Smart Cities Challenge. They planned and delivered processes for selecting cities and innovators, coordinated the innovator selection process and led communications and outreach activities. We look forward to continuing to working with them in future innovation challenges” Pontus Westerberg, Programme Management Officer at UN-Habitat Let’s work together Discover more of our incredible partner organisations from across the world Our Partners News and views More news and views Mombasa Plastics Prize Incubator teams celebrated at Enterprise Showcase event Blog Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques joins Aqualunar judging panel News More news and views Get Involved Fund a challenge prize Support the boldest and bravest ideas. Become an ambassador Want to help our challenge prizes reach more people? Enter a challenge Want to help solve some of society’s biggest problems? Get in touch We can’t wait to hear from you. 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