Winners of the Innovation Award 2020
During the finale of the WAITRO://50 Virtual Innovation Summit on October 30th, Will Sarni from Water Foundry announced the following winning teams: TISTR and INECOL, selected by the Scientific Advisory Board, for their project “COVID-19 Challenge: Phytotechnologies to provide clean water in small communities” and UNSW Sydney and UNSW CTET, the winners of the People’s Choice Award at WAITRO://50 with their project “Development of low cost solar-powered water treatment for remote communities.”
Each team is now awarded $25,000 from JITRI and Fraunhofer to develop its project! To turn their ideas into innovative projects, the organizations uploaded their proposals on the Innovation Hub SAIRA and then used the platform to team up with their partners. The Scientific Advisory Board then chose five finalist teams who got to participate in pitch training sessions and then present their innovations at WAITRO://50.
Now we are looking forward to seeing those water challenges being tackled!
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