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This could be your opportunity to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
Challenge Works supports smart ideas and ingenious solutions, wherever they come from. We believe inventors can come from any background or sector, so we work to break down barriers, support long-term success and nurture innovation talent every step of the way.
We have worked with thousands of innovator teams and dozens of funders to find solutions to problems, draw attention to societal issues, and bring about real change.
Read on to find out more about our current and past portfolio of challenge prizes.
Big Green Challenge
Supporting community-led responses to climate change in the UK.
Innovation in Water Challenge
Stimulating innovative responses to challenges in the water industry.
Dynamic Demand Challenge
The Dynamic Demand Challenge aimed to stimulate new products, technologies or services using data to achieve reduced carbon emissions by shifting energy demand to off peak times.
Fall Armyworm Tech Prize
The prize focused on digital tools and approaches that provide timely, context-specific information that enable smallholder farmers and those who support them to identify, treat, and track incidence of fall armyworm in Africa, avoiding overuse of pesticides which could promote resistance.
Data Driven Farming Prize
Sought tools to source, analyse and translate data into information which farmers can use to improve agricultural productivity in Nepal.
European Social Innovation Competition 2019
Tackling the problem of rising plastic waste levels across the world
Challenge prizes
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