Deadline: October 15th 2023 | The Future Is Fungi Award 2023
| Title: | The Future Is Fungi Award 2023 |
| Organisation: | Future is Fungi |
| Fund/Grant: | EUR 10 000 |
| Deadline: | October 15th 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | All countries |
With The Future is Fungi Award, we hope to recognise and highlight the cutting-edge research that examines how fungi might be used to solve environmental problems. We hope to draw attention to brand-new and emerging fields of fungi research and start-up technologies, bringing them out of the shadows and into the light.
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Additionally, they hope to stimulate new ideas and research in the virtually limitless realms of fungus study and use.
Eligibility
- Researchers and start-ups with cutting-edge concepts for using FUNGI for environmental solutions are eligible.
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For Researchers
You can use research at any level, starting with a concept and progressing through tried and confirmed research, technology or demonstration published research, and a prototype. -
Startups can apply for the award if they are in one of the following stages:
Seed Pre-seed Seed Seed + Series A
REQUIREMENTS FOR RESEARCHERS
- Environmental Relevance: The study should touch on one or more of the urgent environmental issues facing the world today, such as climate change, ensuring food security and more sustainable agriculture, the need for a more circular economy, reducing pollution, the need to restore nature and support biodiversity, or the potential for substituting or reducing non-sustainable products with sustainable biobased alternatives derived from fungi and thus releasing the full potential of biology. Pharma is excluded from the award because environmental damage is its primary emphasis.
- Impact: The research should be able to significantly and favourably affect the environment and sustainability in the concerned field. Small-scale measures that have a big impact might be used.
- Novelty: The research should propose cutting-edge or frontier concepts, methods, technologies, approaches, or solutions to the pertinent global problem.
- Scientific Integrity: The study should be grounded in reputable scientific, moral, and methodological foundations.
- Collaboration: The study should show the potential for working with pertinent parties, such as governmental organisations, business partners, and other researchers.
- Commercialisation: The research should be capable of being applied in the real world and have a path to commercialisation.
For Startups
- Environmental Relevance: The start-up innovation should address one or more of the urgent environmental issues facing the world, including climate change, ensuring food security and more sustainable agriculture, the need for a more circular economy, pollution, the need to restore nature and support biodiversity, or the opportunities to replace or reduce non-sustainable products with sustainable biobased alternatives from fungi and thus unlock the potential of biolog Pharma is excluded from the award because environmental damage is its primary emphasis.
- Impact: The start-up invention should be capable of having a large and favourable impact on the environment in the concerned field.
- Novelty: The start-up invention should offer fresh, cutting-edge, and creative concepts, theories, methods, or solutions to the pertinent global problem.
- Customer discovery: The start-up should show that it has a thorough understanding of the benefits that its product offers to its target clients.
- Scaling: The start-up innovation has a great deal of room for expansion, and the start-up can lay out a workable plan for doing so.
For more information, visit The Future is fungi Award.
