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CareerTech Challenge Prize

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EUSIC 2019 Awards Ceremony

Find out about Europe’s top social innovations challenging plastic waste at the European Social Innovation Competition awards ceremony.

24 October 2019

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UNDP and Nesta join hands for global innovation challenge

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Where next for open banking?

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Helping the financially vulnerable through open banking

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Business fights poverty: The role of tech in connecting communities

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How the Legal Access Challenge is designing legal services for all

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Longitude Explorer Prize 2019/20

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How the European Social Innovation Competition is fostering collaborative leadership for today’s biggest challenges

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Modernising the farming industry

Data Driven Farming Challenge

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Thought Leadership

Encouraging entrepreneurial spirit in young people

Changing the face of banking

The Open Up Challenge

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The importance of impact measurement in social innovation

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Thought Leadership

Designing the cities of the future

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What role does technology have in making justice accessible to more people in need?

Thought Leadership

The ageing population: Designing public services that are targeted to older persons

Thought Leadership

Demystifying entrepreneurship: Making it accessible for all

Discovering Britain’s ‘hidden inventors’

The Inventor Prize

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Harnessing the power of drones

The Flying High Challenge

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Thought Leadership

Entrepreneurship as a way of life: Opening the role of entrepreneur up to the masses

Affordable Credit Challenge

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Technology to reduce mobility barriers

Mobility Unlimited Challenge

Case Study

Thought Leadership

How purpose-led business is redefining ways of working

The open banking opportunity for fintechs

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Open Up 2020 Challenge

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Solving the energy crisis

Dynamic Demand Challenge

Case Study

Thought Leadership

Stimulating innovation for good

Thought Leadership

How Nesta Challenges is bringing people together to solve socially relevant problems

Challenge prizes can and will change the world

Nesta Challenges

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Tech to Connect Prize

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Tackling growing levels of antimicrobial resistance

Longitude Prize

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Legal Access Challenge

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Why we should care about drones in our cities

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Innovators who are challenging plastic waste across the globe

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How can we challenge plastic waste?

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The problem with plastic: EUSIC launches in Ljubljana

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European Social Innovation Competition 2019

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The challenge of common problems

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Million Cool Roofs Challenge

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Tackling heat stress through cool roof solutions

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Thinking clearly about cleaner air

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The Mobility Unlimited Challenge: Announcement of the five finalists

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Challenge Dementia: The pace of change

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Why the UK should empower cities to shape urban air mobility

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Is ours a finite world?

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Ulisse on creating a European digital platform enabling an international network of deaf tour guides

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GoFundEd on creating a crowdfunding platform that helps students and teachers launch their own projects

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ScOLARGeno on empowering secondary school students to act against climate change

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ConnecTech on offering learning opportunities to young people with physical impairments

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Career Bus on bringing career orientation to young people living in rural areas

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Antibiotic diagnostics: Report shows downward trend in innovation

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Using open innovation to encourage frugal innovation

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10 approaches to turning local challenges into opportunities for young people

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The 2018 Inventor Prize winner is set to support stroke survivors across the UK

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Mapping the UK drone industry

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Nesta’s UK drone industry research reveals huge potential market opportunity

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Sex, Drugs and Superbugs: Gonorrhoea and the post-antibiotic apocalypse

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Everybody be cool: Rethinking refrigeration solutions

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Fall Armyworm Tech Prize

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Why is surgery ready for a challenge prize?

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Mobility Unlimited Challenge

Challenge

What kind of test could win the Longitude Prize?

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Inventor Prize

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Why big data is fertile ground for challenge prizes

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Open Up Challenge

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Data Driven Farming Prize

Challenge

Smart Ageing Prize

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Longitude Prize

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Using challenge prizes to help China cut carbon emissions

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Inclusive Tech Prize

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Dynamic Demand Challenge Prize

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The Big Green Challenge

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10 approaches to turning local challenges into opportunities for young people

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