{"id":1705,"date":"2014-05-27T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2014-05-27T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:09:18","slug":"longitude-prize-2014-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2014\/05\/27\/longitude-prize-2014-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Longitude Prize 2014 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-27443825\">BBC launched the Longitude Prize 2014<\/a> on Monday 19 May, announcing the six challenge themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Flight<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0low carbon<\/li>\n<li><b>Food<\/b>\u00a0security \u2013 nutritious, sustainable<\/li>\n<li><b>Antibiotics<\/b>\u00a0resistance<\/li>\n<li><b>Paralysis\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 assistive tech\/neuro advances etc<\/li>\n<li><b>Water<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 clean, safe access etc<\/li>\n<li><b>Dementia<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 assistive tech etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a310M is available over 5 years to demonstrate proof of concept and ability to scale.\u00a0<b>All of the 6 challenge themes map to Imperial activities and expertise!\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tony Hall, Lord Rees Brian Cox, Kevin Fong and Attenborough were all there to launch the Prize. Lord Rees Chairs the committee which has short-listed the six themes.<\/p>\n<p>The Longitude Prize 2014 has been set up by the BBC, Nesta and the TSB, to mark 300 years since the (original) Longitude Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the challenges:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-27425224\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-27425224<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details were broadcast on the One Show and on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/proginfo\/2014\/20\/horizon\">special Horizon episode<\/a>\u00a0(celebrating 50 years of Horizon), after which, voting opened.\u00a0The nation gets to vote on the six challenge areas, with only the most popular being tackled. The chosen theme will be announced 25 June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/AP\/faces\/pages\/read\/Home.jsp?person=c.thorne&amp;_adf.ctrl-state=a1e93vmq8_3&amp;_afrRedirect=5115161038972702\"><strong>Dr Claire Thorne<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Executive Coordinator to Professor David Gann CBE, Vice President (Development and Innovation)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC launched the Longitude Prize 2014 on Monday 19 May, announcing the six challenge themes: Flight\u00a0\u2013\u00a0low carbon Food\u00a0security \u2013 nutritious, sustainable Antibiotics\u00a0resistance Paralysis\u00a0\u2013 assistive tech\/neuro advances etc Water\u00a0\u2013 clean, safe access etc Dementia\u00a0\u2013 assistive tech etc \u00a310M is available over 5 years to demonstrate proof of concept and ability to scale.\u00a0All of the 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16279,491,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-funding","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}