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Deadline: 16-Aug-22

The Research Investment for Global Health Technology (RIGHT) Fund Foundation is pleased to announce the 2022 Product Development Award to support developing new or improved vaccines, therapeutics, biologics, or diagnostic platforms as global public good for prevention and control of infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the people in the Global South.

The RIGHT Fund focuses on infectious diseases that have a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) or diseases with a pandemic potential.

The RIGHT Fund supports innovation that will significantly improve the scalability of and equitable access to the health technologies across countries and regions via public procurement including innovation to reduce cost and to improve manufacturability, ease of operation, thermostability and/or environmental sustainability.

The RIGHT Fund supports deep collaboration between Korean and non-Korean institutions that enables an exchange of ideas and expertise in the spirit of allyship and mutual respect. They particularly welcome and encourage collaboration between Korean and LMIC institutions to ensure that health technology development effort is guided by the local insights about the health system and socioeconomic context

Award Type

• Target health conditions
  • Infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the people in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) or diseases with a pandemic potential
• Development stage
  • From or near the initiation of the clinical development or validation phase to regulatory approval and WHO prequalification (WHO PQ).
• Intervention types
  • Vaccines, therapeutics/biologics, diagnostics
• Partnership requirement
  • Must include a Korean entity
  • Collaborative submission by multiple countries highly welcome and recommended

Award Information

Successful projects will be awarded up to 4 billion KRW per project to be conducted for up to 36 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• The RIGHT Fund reserves the right to determine the eligibility of applicants and public health priority among the submitted proposals at its discretion.
• The applicant team must include at least one Korean entity with the expertise to make a significant contribution to the project. Inclusion of nonKorean partner(s) especially those from the Global South is highly recommended.
• Korean entity
  • Korean companies (or entities with a research facility in Korea)
  • Not-for-profit research organizations and foundations
  • Government research institutions
  • Academic institutions
• Non-Korean entity
  • Life Science/Healthcare companies
  • Not-for-profit research organizations, foundations or product development partners
  • Government research institutions
  • Public health laboratories
  • Academic institutions

For more information, visit RIGHT Fund.

For more information, visit https://rightfund.org/en/apply-for-funding/funding-opportunities/

Deadline: 10-Jul-22

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is pleased to launch a call for applications for the Local Adaptation Champions Awards to reward inspiring, innovative and scalable locally led efforts that addresses climate change and build resilience among vulnerable communities.

The Local Adaptation Champions Award spotlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and build effective climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities, sections of society, and individuals who are at the frontlines of the greatest existential threat faced by humankind.

Categories

• Inclusive leadership: Interventions in this category are inclusive by design and truly owned by the communities in which they have been implemented. They have been designed, built and managed with and by the people who will benefit from them the most, and have sought contributions from those members of the community who are often excluded from local decision-making processes due to their gender, race, language, ethnicity, religious practices, sexual orientation, disability or any other reason.
• Financial governance: This category focuses on rewarding initiatives whose scope was to design innovative financial mechanisms that allow local communities to access and manage adaptation funds in ways that best fit local needs, priorities, and evolving contexts. The mechanism displays strong flexibility and may build on intergovernmental and public-private partnerships or alliances.
• Knowledge and capacity: Interventions in this category are designed to strengthen local knowledge and skills related to climate change adaptation, climate finance or locally led adaptation principles in ways that enable local actors to autonomously continue building their knowledge and share their skills over time. Interventions which contribute to knowledge sharing and building the evidence case for locally led adaptation can also apply for this category.
• Local innovation: This category rewards local solutions or technologies – physical or digital – that minimize the immediate and long-term impacts of climate change on people in the community, in particular those most vulnerable. The solution presented may be an existing solution creatively applied to climate change adaptation, a solution that was never before used in this context, a completely new idea successfully applied or a combination of all of the above.

Award Information

All 20 nominees will benefit from media coverage around their nomination for the awards. Four winners (one per category) will receive a cash prize of €15,000.

Principles

The eight principles for locally led adaptation, are defined as follows:

• Devolving decision-making to the lowest appropriate level.
• Addressing structural inequalities faced by women, youth, children, disabled and displaced people, indigenous peoples and marginalized ethnic groups.
• Providing patient and predictable funding that can be accessed more easily.
• Investing in local capabilities to leave an institutional legacy.
• Building a robust understanding of climate risk and uncertainty.
• Flexible programming and learning.
• Ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Collaborative action and investment.

Eligibility Criteria

• The award is open to any individual, organization or group of partners worldwide, who have implemented or are in the process of implementing climate change adaptation/resilience solutions that follow one of the eight principles for locally led adaptation.
• To be eligible for the award, applicants must ensure that:
  • The solution addresses climate change impacts or builds effective climate resilience.
  • The solution aims at the most vulnerable communities, sections of society and individuals experiencing climate impacts (shocks and slow-onset).
  • The entry matches the description of one of the four award categories.
  • The intervention presented is under implementation and shows results and impact.

For more information, visit https://gca.org/llachampions/

Deadline: 31-Jul-22

Do you have an effective intervention that aims to save the lives of children under five? If yes, then 2022 The Children’s Prize is for you!

The Children’s Prize is an open online competition with a mission to advance child health and survival by insisting on impact and data-driven interventions.

The Children’s Prize is awarded to scientifically-minded individuals with a passion for global child health and a strong commitment to verify the impact of their work. Between 2013 and 2021, the Prize has awarded over $2,000,000.00 to such individuals and organizations across the globe.

Prize Details

• The winner will have the opportunity to enter into a $150,000 grant agreement.
• The Prize does not require a specific timeline, but the intention is to directly spend the money to save children’s lives as immediately as possible. A year or two seems reasonable to achieve this goal in most cases.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Children’s Prize is available to anyone. Proposals will be accepted from non-profits (charities), for profits (companies), government programs, academic institutions, and individuals aged 18 years or older. However, the prize funds may only be used for charitable purposes, as specified in the contest goals.
• They encourage research and academic professionals to partner with a practitioner – someone directly conducting a life-saving intervention – to develop an application for the Prize.
• The Children’s Prize contest is open to all individuals, worldwide. The prize funds may only be used for charitable purposes, subject to expenditure responsibility.

For more information, visit https://www.childrensprize.org/

Deadline: 16-Aug-22

The Research Investment for Global Health Technology (RIGHT) Fund Foundation is seeking nominations for the Evidence Generation Award to critically assess the potential public health value of digital health technologies, and specific conditions and approaches under which digital tools can strengthen public health and expand the quality, affordability, and accessibility of health services.

The evidence generated from the portfolio will contribute to guiding the RIGHT Fund’s funding strategy around digital health technologies.

The RIGHT Fund supports deep collaboration between Korean institutions and other institutions in the Global South that enables an exchange of ideas and expertise in the spirit of allyship and mutual respect.

Award Type

• Scope
  • Current use of and gaps in the application of digital platforms in infectious disease prevention/control or delivery of primary health care services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
• Intent
  • Assess the public health value of digital health technologies as global public good
  • Define problems to be solved with digital technologies that reflect the gaps and needs in LMICs
• Partnership requirement
  • Collaboration with a Korean partner encouraged but not required
  • Must include local institutions from the countries that the proposed activities focus on

Award Information

Successful projects will be awarded up to 200 million KRW per project to be conducted for up to 12 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• The RIGHT Fund reserves the right to determine the eligibility of applicants and public health priority among the submitted proposals at its discretion.
• The applicant team must include at least one local institution based in the country or region that the proposed evidence generation will focus on. Collaborative submissions among the institutions in the Global South are highly welcome and encouraged. Inclusion of a Korean entity is encouraged but not required.
• The applicants will be asked to articulate a collaboration plan to demonstrate how each member will contribute to the project in a manner that facilitates thought partnership throughout the proposal development, data collection and/or analysis.

For more information, visit RIGHT Fund.

For more information, visit https://rightfund.org/en/apply-for-funding/funding-opportunities/

Deadline: 16-Sep-22

Applications are now open for the Reimagine Education Conference & Awards.

Reimagine Education is a global conference and competition, open to educational innovators from all around the world. The conference brings together edtech startups, academic faculty from top institutions, Chief Innovation Officers, university leadership, teachers, and other stakeholders in the future of teaching and learning.

The Reimagine Education Awards – the ‘Oscars’ of Education – reward innovative approaches that enhance student learning outcomes and employability, offering $50,000 in funding to the overall winners.

Award Categories

• AI in Education
• Immersive Experiential Learning (XR, Metaverse, Gaming)
• Access, Diversity & Inclusion
• E-Learning
• Digital Readiness (Data Analytics, Security, Privacy, Equity)
• Breakthrough Tech Innovation in Education (ICT Tools, Edu Apps, Instructional Technologies)
• The Power of Partnerships
• Science of Learning
• Lifelong Learning
• Best Online Program
• Developing Emerging Skills
• Nurturing Employability
• Blended & Presence Learning
• Learning Assessment
• Nurturing Wellbeing & Purpose
• Sustainability Education
• Nurturing Values and Ethics
• Innovation in Business Education

Award Details

• GLOBAL EDUCATION AWARD: The Reimagine Education Global Education Award Winner will receive US$ 25,000 in funding.
• GLOBAL EDTECH AWARD: The Reimagine Education Global Education Award Winner will receive US$ 25,000 in funding.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications to the 2022 Reimagine Education Awards Competition should be submitted in English only.
• Applications to the 2022 Reimagine Education Competition should focus on enhancing learning outcomes, or students’ employability, or pertaining education in other relevant ways. Entries which will not meet these basic entry requirements, will be rejected.
• The organizers reserve the right to reallocate any application to a different award category at their discretion. In applying, applicants acknowledge the finality and non-negotiability of all such decisions.
• No applicant may apply to more than one award category with the same project. In the event of ambiguity existing with regards to a submission’s most suitable category, applicants will be expected to consult the organisers for guidance. In applying, applicants acknowledge that, in the event of an application being submitted to more than one category in identical or highly similar form, the organizers reserve the right to delete additional submissions at their discretion, and such additional submissions will forego eligibility for all Reimagine Education Awards in 2022.
• All entries must be supplied and conform to rules/submission formats.
• All entries submitted must be legal.
• Any entries containing offensive material will be disqualified.
• Any entry that has a complaint upheld against it by the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK, or similar bodies elsewhere, will be disqualified.
• After the entry deadline entries cannot be withdrawn.
• In applying, applicants acknowledge that all deadlines and/or dates pertaining to the 2022 Reimagine Education Awards may be subject to change, and that such changes will be communicated to all applicants via email.
• Whilst every care will be taken in the storage of entries, the organisers will not accept responsibility for loss or damage of entries.
• By entering these awards, the applicant gives the organisers the right to publish/exhibit screen grabs and/or submitted application. In the submission form, applicants can specify which information is publishable which ticking the appropriate box.

For more information, visit https://www.reimagine-education.com/

Deadline: 22-Aug-22

Applications are now open for the INNO Disruptive Challenge.

A program by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) taking aim at conventional wisdom to inspire and cultivate the seeds of disruptive innovation from all walks of life with support of up to 3,000,000 JPY for up to one year.

In this new-normal era, a significant increase in the need for innovation within the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) field has arisen. In response, they call upon those who boldly take on new challenges without the fear of failure to take part in the Disruptive Challenge.

They aim to support the further development of these technologies by looking for proposals that can boldly take on these challenges and tackle issues with the potential of changing society and global industries without the fear of failure. 

 Challenges

The INNO Disruptive Challenge is separated into a 2-step process.

• 0 to 1 Challenge
  • The 0 to 1 Challenge is an opportunity to put your ideas to the test and experiment in lighting up the path towards realization (your “Ambitious Technical Goal”), without fear of failure.
  • Freely set your own time period and budget (time period up to 4 months; budget up to ¥1,000,000) and set your sights toward the Disruptive Challenge. At any time, through self-assessment and your own judgment, you may submit a request to the executing agency to advance to the Disruptive Challenge. Upon passing this selection, you may advance to the Disruptive Challenge.
  • Duration: Up to 4 months
• Disruptive Challenge
  • Press forward toward your “Ambitious Technical Goal”. The 0 to 1 Challenge’s time period and support budget are deducted from the overall time and budget limit of one year and ¥3,000,000, respectively. (For example, the earlier the 0 to 1 Challenge is completed, the longer the time period for the Disruptive Challenge becomes).
  • Period: Up to maximum of 1 year (including the 0 to 1 challenge)

Eligibility Criteria

• Open Worldwide, All Nationalities, All Ages, All Backgrounds.
• Those who can propose a path and a vision towards their goal as well as being unafraid of making mistakes in their attempt. 
• All ages, Those on Earth with a contact address (citizenship or residency will not be taken into account). 
• In the case of self-application: Individuals or groups. 
• In the case of referrals : Individuals or groups in your vicinity.
• In addition, coordinate alongside the executing agency and follow decided activities in the event you are selected, your name (or nickname), residing location, and proposal name will be announced on the official website.
• You must abide by Japanese law.
• Those without Japanese residency or citizenship will not be bound by the Industrial Technology Enhancement Act Article 17 (the Japanese equivalent of the Bayh-Dole Act). 

For more information, visit https://www.inno.go.jp/en/hakai/2022/

Deadline: 8-Jul-22

Nominations are now open for the 2022 Garmin Health Awards for the Most Innovative Solution.

At Garmin Health, they believe in the power of an ecosystem that combines physiological data with third-party solutions to create long-term benefits. They give you the tools and flexibility to create innovative and meaningful solutions using the wearables. This year, they’ll again recognize the most unique programs with the Garmin Health Awards.

Categories

• The Garmin Health Awards will be presented in three categories for solutions that use Garmin they arables as an integral part of a health or wellness programs.
  • Health Care: This includes solutions for telehealth, senior care, pediatrics and other health care initiatives.
  • Insurance: This includes solutions for insurance or reinsurance programs, dynamic underwriting, women’s health, BAM or other insurance-related initiatives.
  • Engagement: This includes solutions for fitness platforms, corporate wellness, customer loyalty or other activity-based initiatives.

Award Information

• Each winner will be awarded up to 50 world-class Garmin wearables, worth an estimated $10,000.

Rules and Requirements

• The solution should be established and working.
• Each solution should apply to only one category, but you may apply with multiple solutions.
• The solution must fit into one of three categories: health care, insurance or engagement.
• The solution must use Garmin wearables such as smartwatches, fitness trackers or smart scales.
• Applicants may be asked to provide additional information about their solutions.

For more information, visit https://www.garmin.com/en-IN/garmin-health-award/