The Royal Academy of Engineering is inviting university teams to participate in the Global Grand Challenges Summit Competition 2019, a programme of challenge-led innovation, design and business development, culminating in the opportunity for teams to attend a Collaboration Lab event and the Global Grand Challenges Summit in London, UK.
University teams are invited to propose an innovation or novel approach to address global challenges associated with the sub-themes of the Summit.
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As the themes are broad, they expect the teams to tackle one or more element of a challenge rather than the entire subject. For example, this could include:
- How do we feed 10 billion?
- Is continued urbanisation inevitable and desirable?
- How can we achieve globally equitable access to technology?
- How do we stop the world being water short?
- How do we make innovation circular?
While this does not need to be a fully-fledged start-up business, they are looking for a rigorous entrepreneurial and design approach which shows that the teams have moved beyond an initial idea or technology concept. The innovation must be viable with a clear route to growth and sustained impact, though does not need to be a profit-making entity.
Five champion teams from each country – UK, US, and China – will be selected to attend a Collaboration Lab event and the Global Grand Challenges Summit in London, UK, 12-18 September 2019.
On the first day of the Collaboration Lab event (see below), these five winning teams from each country will compete against each other, presenting a 3-5-minute pitch of their proposals to a selection of senior judges and all Collaboration Lab event participants.
The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 is the launch of a second series of summits jointly hosted by the UK, US and Chinese academies of engineering, inspired by the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering.
The event will convene inspirational world leaders with the next generation of engineers and changemakers to build creative collaborations and solve the grand challenges facing our future world of 10 billion people.
The Summit will take place on 16-18 September 2019 in London, at the Southbank Centre’s wonderful Queen Elizabeth Hall, with 900 of the next generation’s engineers, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers in attendance.
The Summit will be broadcast worldwide, with satellite events on every continent, creating a truly global effort in addressing these Global Grand Challenges.
A Global Grand Challenges student event will take place in the days preceding the summit, at South Bank’s County Hall.
Location:
United KingdomBenefits
- Winning teams will be awarded a small cash prize, and publicised via appropriate media channels.
- All five champion teams will then participate in the Collaboration Lab and Global Grand Challenges Summit.
Eligibilities
- Each team must comprise between four and six undergraduate student members (including final year students)
- All teams must designate a team leader who is required to be from an engineering programme, but students from other disciplines are strongly encouraged to be part of the team
- Each team must have at least one mentor who is willing to travel to London for the Summit with their team
Application Process
Apply online through the given link.
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Application Deadline: March 8, 2019
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