Mayor’s Resilience Fund

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Mayor’s Resilience Fund

25 November 2020

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What was the Mayor’s Resilience Fund?

The Resilience Fund was Mayor Sadiq Khan’s £1 million innovation programme to support London’s businesses and community groups to emerge stronger from the coronavirus crisis, and to ensure the capital is better prepared for future disruptive challenges.

As the first step in delivering the fund, we worked with the Mayor of London to develop a series of open innovation competitions based around specific challenges in London.

We selected up to ten organisations to be Resilience Partners and worked with them to create an open innovation competition to solve their problem, by inviting innovators to design, test and scale creative, impactful solutions.

For full details of the Mayor’s Resilience Fund, visit https://tech.london/resilience.

This challenge was funded by

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Programme Timeline

2020
September – December
Open call for challenge ideas & potential resilience partners
2021
December 2020- January 2021
Resilience partners are selected and challenges are designed
2021
February
Open call to innovators for co-creation sessions with resilience partners
2021
March
Innovators submit proposals, up to 30 innovators selected and awarded up to £10k each
2021
April
Innovators prototype solutions
2021
May
Up to 10 innovators selected and awarded up to £30k each to implement solutions locations for resilience partners are now closed
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2021
  • 2021
  • 2021
  • 2021

Applications for resilience partners are now closed

For full details of the Mayor’s Resilience Fund, visit Tech London

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