Our Partners
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Challenge Works partners are organisations which help design, create, deliver, support and fund our challenge prizes.
These organisations come from industry, business, third sector, charities, national and local governments, and international bodies.
Together we can solve the world’s biggest problems.
Great partnerships lead to great discoveries
Take it from our partners…
“Since 2017, it has been our great pleasure to collaborate with Challenge Works, who served as our seminal guide to establishing the Impact Canada challenge program, which was designed to tackle some of the Canadian Government’s most pressing policy priorities.
The team at Challenge Works helped us to inaugurate our team’s approach to challenge research, design and implementation, and served as critical mentors for us as we sought to establish a new practice in Canada.
As long-time collaborators, Challenge Works is as good a partner that you can ask for in the innovation space – knowledgeable, flexible, creative, driven and curious.” – Julie Greene, Senior Policy Analyst at Government of Canada
“Our work with Challenge Works on the Toyota Mobility Unlimited challenge was critical for us on many fronts.
Since we launched the challenge several years ago, it has served as a proof point to our commitment to mobility and a launching pad for others to connect with us in an expanded space. The work allowed us to connect with end-users, entrepreneurs, advocates, practitioners, thought leaders, and SMEs across multiple disciplines.
This diverse perspective brought new ways of thinking about old problems in the assistive technology space as well as our own perspective on mobility in a broader sense. Not only did the challenge highlight innovations in the space but helped raise awareness on the broader challenges that exist for many when it comes to living barrier free.
Challenge Works was really the driver to make this happen in a thoughtful and organized manner.” – Ryan Klem, Toyota Mobility Foundation
“Challenge Works has a deep experience in running these big multinational prizes in complex medical areas. And it was that combination of being able to help us put an international judging panel together, and coordinate how the prize should be structured. This is why we chose to work with Challenge Works, and it’s been an excellent partnership.” – Catherine Mohr, President, Intuitive Foundation
“The funding, recognition and increased profile that taking part brought us was the springboard that enabled us to convert an abstract idea into an active venture.” – Devrim Celal, CEO KrakenFlex
“Our partnership with Challenge Works on the Afri-Plastics Challenge revealed much more than a one-winner scenario. Challenge Works is at the forefront of employing human-centered design (HCD) for impactful programs. They inspire the development sector by showcasing how HCD nurtures a profound understanding of societal issues, ignites innovative ideas and enables iterative learning cycles for everyone involved – and how to use that to build sustainable change.” – Thomas Schuurmans, founder and director of Proportion Global
“It has been a great pleasure working with Challenge Works on the Longitude Prize on Dementia. Their extensive experience has made the whole process, from inviting applications through to the initial selection of first stage awardees, seamless and efficient and makes it a pleasure to Chair the judging panel.” – John T. O’Brien, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge