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Climate Response
We work to create innovations that help planet earth and its people tackle the climate crisis together.
Unearthing the unexpected
Solving the world’s biggest problems
- We run innovation challenge prizes, and champion diversity in innovation
- We attract innovative talent, incentivise progress and nurture radical ideas
- We’ve set 84 challenges over 10 years with a total prize pot of £211.4M
- We unlock change and make the world a better place
Our Challenge Prizes
Our Current
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Our priority areas
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Global Health
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Resilient Society
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Technology Frontiers
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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.
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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”
Let’s work together
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