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Innovative Solutions To Climate Change
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Sponsor
The DECCW Eureka Prize for Innovative Solutions to Climate Change is sponsored by New South Wales Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.
Description
The DECCW Eureka Prize for Innovative Solutions to Climate Change is awarded to an Australian individual, group or organisation for work that demonstrates a commitment to pursuing innovative solutions to the challenges posed by climate change.
prize
$10,000
Purpose
Climate change represents one of the major risks to the security of people around the world.
Decisive action now is one of the most important steps we can take to reduce the risks from global warming. This action must include action to identify and implement solutions to the challenges posed by climate change and to reduce the impacts of human-induced climate change.
Meeting these challenges will create unprecedented opportunities as climate change demands a new global economy based on lower greenhouse gas emissions, with new energy, transport and other services adapted to both cope with and address climate change.
The challenge of reducing emissions requires technological innovation and the development of new products that are less energy and carbon intensive over their life cycle.
Increasing the use of renewable energy, the potential hydrogen economy, and increasing the efficiency of the generation, distribution and use of fossil fuel electricity creates unprecedented business opportunities.
Other opportunities include the design of infrastructure and energy efficient buildings in the urban environment; new agricultural practices, better ways of storing, saving and using water; and changes in transport systems and car technology.
The DECCW Eureka Prize for Innovative Solutions to Climate Change is designed to highlight outstanding work by an Australian individual, group or organisation that demonstrates a commitment to pursuing innovative solutions to the challenges of climate change.
Work entered may be research; development of new technologies or practices; new markets, products or services; or advocacy that addresses the challenges of climate change.
Judging Criteria
Entries must address each of the following criteria:
1) Innovation
In what way is the work and/or its results innovative?
To what extent has the work developed or extended techniques or methods not normally used?
2) Impact
In what way does the work demonstrate commitment to pursuing solution(s) to a challenge of climate change?
What particular challenge of climate change is addressed by the work? What is, or is likely to be, the impact of the work on this challenge?
How has the work been effectively communicated to appropriate audiences?
Conditions of entry
The prize is open to individuals, groups or organisations. Entrants can either enter themselves or be nominated by others.
Work entered for this prize must have been undertaken:
• in Australia by an Australian citizen(s) or Australian resident(s)
• undertaken no more than five (5) years prior to the closing date for entries.
You must submit an online entry form including all supporting documentation by midnight AEST Friday 7 May 2010 to be eligible for this prize.
Entries with insufficient sets of supporting documentation will not be considered. Submitted material will not be returned.
Any entries received after midnight AEST Friday 7 May 2010 will not be considered.
Hard-copy applications will not be considered.
The work entered/nominated for this prize may not be entered/nominated for another Australian Museum Eureka Prize.
The deliberations of the judging panel remain confidential. All recommendations and decisions taken are binding and final and no correspondence will be entered into on such matters.
Information provided by the entrant(s) in relation to the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes (including photos), may be used by the Australian Museum for promotional/publicity purposes. This may include, and is not restricted to, the information being used on websites, social media, printed material, advertisements, press releases etc.
Personal information provided in connection with the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes will be used only by the Australian Museum and only in connection with the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.
How to enter
1. You must prepare and attach the following supporting documents to your online entry form. (Please clearly label your attachments as per below.)
a. Research Summary: a brief description of the research entered, including objectives and results to date (two page maximum)
b. Judging Criteria: a brief description of how the work entered addresses each of the judging criteria (two page maximum)
c. Assessor Reports: a maximum of four (4) written reports addressing each of the judging criteria from assessors who are familiar with the entered research (two page maximum per report). NOTE: Judges rely on assessor's reports to provide additional perspective and informed opinion on the entry. Assessors should not be personally or directly involved in the work entered in this prize.
d. Publication: You may if you wish (and if appropriate) also include a copy of your work from at least one externally-refereed scientific publication.
Supporting documentation can be uploaded in Microsoft Word (.doc), Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Microsoft Excel (.xls) or JPeg (.jpg). Collectively, attachments can be no larger than 5MB.
2. Submit an online entry form by midnight AEST Friday 7 May 2010.
Complete the online entry form which must include all your supporting documents and submit by midnight AEST Friday 7 May 2010.
If you require further information or help, please call the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes Unit on +61 2 9320 6483 or email eureka@austmus.gov.au
