HORIZON2020 PRIZES: 5 CHALLENGES IN VARIOUS RESEARCH DOMAINS ARE WAITING FOR YOUR SOLUTION
16-12-2014

Horizon Prizes are challenge prizes (also known as 'inducement' prizes) which offer a cash reward to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge. They act as an incentive for innovation. They prescribe the goal but not who the innovator should be or how the goal should be achieved.

The European Commission is introducing a set of challenge prizes under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme:

  1. Better use of Antibiotics (Prize: €1 million): The contest will be launched in February 2015 and will run until the end of 2016.
  2. Breaking the optical transmission barriers (Prize: €500 000): The submission of application is expected to open in the second half of 2015. The contest will run until 2016.
  3. Clean air (Prize: €3 million): The contest will be launched in 2015 and will run until the end of 2018.
  4. Collaborative Spectrum Sharing (Prize: €500 000): The submission of application is expected to open in the second half of 2015. The contest will run until 2016.
  5. Food scanner (Prize: €1 million): The contest will be launched early in 2015 and will run until 2016.
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