Deadline: 31-Mar-22
The Temasek Foundation is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Liveability & Sustainability Innovations Program.
Objectives
- Temasek Foundation champions sustainability and innovative solutions to improve liveability in an abc World of active and productive economies, beautiful and inclusive societies, and a clean and cool earth.
- They fund and support ideas and innovations that bring about solutions, systems and capabilities to address various challenges, particularly environmental, healthcare and other adversities affecting the population as whole. This includes transforming vulnerabilities brought about by such adversities into opportunities.
- Temasek Foundation is currently conducting its Call for Proposals.
Eligibility Criteria
- Temasek Foundation provides funding for later-stage applied, translational research and development proposals, and/or commercialisation efforts of innovative solutions that address liveability and sustainability issues in Singapore, bringing impactful improvements to the liveability of our world, especially in cities.
- Examples of liveability and sustainability issues include but are not limited to:
- Air;
- Biodiversity;
- Energy;
- Food and Nutrition;
- Infectious Disease Management;
- Land;
- Noise;
- Waste Management;
- Water;
- Weather and Climate
- Temasek Foundation does not fund early research efforts.
- Solutions should preferably be at Technology Readiness Level 6 and beyond and/or Proof-of-Value stage.
- Solutions that are economically sustainable andhave considerable social impact will have an added advantage when they are assessed in competition with others.
- Solutions can originate from within or outside Singapore, but they have to benefit Singapore, be applicable or adaptable in Singapore.
- The Lead Principal Investigator of the programme/project should ideally be based in Singapore.
- Solutions will be assessed in the following context:
- Desirability: Does the solution have a sizeable number of target beneficiaries in Singapore? How effective and impactful is the solution to deliver positive healthcare outcomes? How does the solution complement existing care and support mechanisms?
- Feasibility: Has the Proof-of-Concept and clinical trials been demonstrated? Is the solution sufficiently mature (i.e. Technological Readiness Level 6 and beyond)? How well does the solution fare against competing technologies? How will any safety, ethics or regulatory requirements be addressed?
- Viability: Is the solution commercially viable? Can the solution or technology translate into actual implementation at a systems level (e.g. innovative protocol and/or business model)? Does the solution inform and transform healthcare practice or policy norms?
- One assessment consideration is whether applicants have applied for funding from other grant institutions. Temasek Foundation may seek verification from applicants for the proof of application to other institutions, where applicable.
For more information, visit https://www.temasekfoundation.org.sg/grant-calls/liveability-sustainability-innovations
