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Get in touch Get in touch Open innovation can change the world Check out our Longitude Prize on Antimicrobial Resistance Longitude Prize on Dementia semi-finalist winners announced What is a Longitude Prize? Longitude Prize Programmes are designed and delivered by Challenge Works , Longitude Prizes incentivise and support scientists, researchers, and innovators to find practical solutions to pressing challenges, such as antibiotic resistance, dementia, and other global issues. The specific challenge for a Longitude Prize is determined based on the critical needs and priorities of society. The prize offers substantial financial and non-financial rewards to successful teams or individuals across their journey and offers one grand prize and support to a team who can develop a groundbreaking solution that meets the defined criteria. See our competitions Learn about the Longitude Prize Committee Check out our partners Read about our history Partner with us Get in touch Our current Longitude Prize open innovation competitions The Longitude Prize on Dementia September 2022– September 2026 £4,420,000 prize pot The Longitude Prize on Dementia will be awarded to the creator of a breakthrough technology that learns from a person living with dementia, adapting and compensating for their condition as it progresses, and enabling them to continue living independently for longer. Find out more at dementia.longitudeprize.org Longitude Prize on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) May 2014 – September 2022 £8,000,000 prize pot The Longitude Prize on AMR will be awarded to a team who develops a novel, affordable, accurate and rapid diagnostic tests to slow the development of antimicrobial resistance. This prize closed for applications on 30 September 2022 . Final entries are now undergoing assessment by the Prize Advisory Panel. Find out more at amr.longitudeprize.org Some of our partners Partner with us Our open innovation competition models enable governments, organisations and philanthropic funders an effective way to reach diverse and innovative talent from across the globe. We believe that systemic change is brought about through radical thinking and collaboration. So we operate where innovation and social impact meet. Spanning government agencies, consultancies and industry bodies, as well as those seeking solutions to societal problems, like charities and social purpose organisations. Get in touch for more information. The Longitude Prize Programme Committee The Longitude Committee features experts from across the scientific and industrial world. The Committee are responsible for awarding the final award of the Longitude Prize competitions we run. Dame Wendy Hall Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton Andrew Cohen Head of BBC Science Unit Andrew Dunnett Director, Vodafone Foundation Professor David Delpy Chair, Strategic Advisory Board, UK National Quantum Technologies Programme and Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Optics, UCL Gisela Abbam Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council, Global Goodwill Ambassador & Freelance Consultant Indro Mukerjee CEO, Innovate UK Kate Lee CEO, Alzheimer’s Society Lord Martin Rees Astronomer Royal Ravi Gurumurthy CEO, Nesta Professor Rifat Atun Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard School of Public Health Roger Highfield Director of External Affairs, Science Museum Dame Sally Davies UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance Dr. Tim Jinks Head of Drug Resistant Infections Priority Program, Wellcome Trust History of the Longitude Prize Longitude Prize of 1714 Not being able to measure longitude on the sea left ships struggling to stay on course with serious consequences when they didn’t. Merchants and captains petitioned the British Parliament to solve the issue of navigating at sea, which culminated in the government issuing The Longitude Act offering a £20,000 prize (approx £1.5m today) to anyone who could solve it. Over a decade later, a clockmaker called John Harrison, solved this issue developing a gadget called a chronometer, which aspects of his invention are still used today. In the end, however, neither he, nor his family, were ever awarded the full prize money. Longitude Prize on AMR 300 years after the original Longitude Prize, a new challenge targeting antimicrobial resistance was set up by the UK Government, Innovate UK and Nesta/Challenge Works. It’s estimated that in 2019, 1.9 million people died from an antibiotic resistant infection or superbug, and it’s estimated that 10 million people a year will die from a drug resistant infection by 2050. In the absence of new antibiotics, and to preserve the effects of the ones we have, accurate and fast diagnostic testing is essential. This prize sought a new diagnostic test that could rapidly tell whether an infection is bacterial, if an antibiotic is needed to treat it, and if so, which specific antibiotic would be the most suitable. Hundreds of teams have worked with the Longitude Prize on AMR to invent and create rapid tests using diverse technologies, creating life-saving technologies. The Longitude Prize for AMR came to a close in September 2022. We are still awaiting a result. Longitude Prize on Dementia The Longitude Prize on Dementia, launched in September 2022 and is a £4.1 million prize to drive the creation of personalised, technology-based tools that are co-created with people living with the early stages of dementia, helping them live independently for longer. £3.1 million will be awarded in seed funding and development grants to the most promising solutions, with a £1 million first prize to be awarded in 2026. Funded by the UK’s leading dementia charity, Alzheimer’s Society, and Innovate UK – the UK’s innovation agency, innovators can enter their solutions to the prize until January 2023. The prize has been designed and is being delivered by innovation experts Challenge Works. The prize has received generous support from three UK donors: The Hunter Foundation, CareTech Foundation and Heather Corrie. In addition, the prize has received funding from the Medical Research Council which funds research at the forefront of science to prevent illness, develop therapies and improve human health. 1714 2014 2022 Interested in running an open innovation competition? Get in touch with us Longitude Prize Home Longitude Prize on AMR Longitude Prize on Dementia Cookies Policy Privacy Policy We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings . 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