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Upcoming Innovation Challenges & Calls
Challenges & Calls
The calls and challenges listed are hosted by UN Entities and external partners. To share your innovation call or challenge with the Network, please head to our contact page.
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Rise Above the Heat
Are you passionate about driving innovation and making a tangible impact on food security and women's resilience to heat stress? ADB Innovation Hub invites you to participate in its latest Technology Innovation Challenge.
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PREP Innovation Challenge
Are you using innovation to improve emergency preparedness and response in the Philippines? Apply to the Preparedness and Response Excellence in the Philippines (PREP) Innovation Challenge by 31 July.
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Gender Data
CRAF'd and partners are investing in bold, innovative projects that leverage gender data to enhance crisis preparedness, prevention, and response in fragile settings. They are providing $3 million to fill this critical gap.
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Climate Adaptation Innovation Accelerator Programme | Adaptation Fund
For this Innovation Challenge, the WFP Innovation Accelerator is looking for both low- and hightech solutions specifically tailored to meet distinct climate adaptation challenges in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon along the food system value chain.
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IGNITE Climate Innovation Challenge
The IGNITE Climate Innovation Challenge is seeking passionate innovators with ideas to address food security, agricultural sustainability, and climate challenges in the Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia.
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AI Hub For Sustainable Development Co-design
A global call for innovative private sector Al partnerships seeking to support data, green compute and talent in Africa.
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Call for Submissions: AI Innovation Grand Challenge
This global competition aims to identify and support innovative AI-powered adaptation and mitigation solutions for LDCs and SIDS. The AI Innovation Grand Challenge is undertaken by the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee in partnership with Enterprise Neurosystem, a non-profit open-source AI research community.
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Transforming Gastronomy Tourism through Innovation
This global competition allows to promote the gastronomy tourism industry through innovation, giving possibilities to Startups from all over the world to present their projects allowing access to a series of benefits in the framework of the 9th edition of the UNWTO Gastronomy Tourism Forum
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