Nominations Invited for €1 Million Millennium Technology Prize 2020
Technology Academy Finland (TAF) awards the biennial Millennium Technology Prize for groundbreaking technological innovations that benefit millions of people around the world by:
Enhancing quality of life.
Promoting sustainable development and mitigation of climate change.
Generating applications with global commercial viability.
Creating new socioeconomic value.
Stimulating further cutting-edge research and development in science and technology.
Nominations are invited from all fields of technology with particular emphasis placed on proposals related to:
Energy and the environment.
Life sciences, including health and food.
Information and communications technology and smart systems.
New materials, processes and manufacturing.
The Prize is intended for innovators in the active stage of their careers.
Nominations from all fields of technology (except military technology) and across the world can be made by science academies, universities, research institutes, companies and industries. Candidates can be either individuals or research groups.
The prize is €1 million.
Nominations must be submitted online by the deadline of 31 July 2019.
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