Deadline for responses: 31 July 2017
The Swiss Leading Houses (University of Basel and Swiss TPH) and the South African Leading House (NRF National Research Foundation) are interested in identifying and supporting sustainable social innovations aiming to improve health in human settlements across South Africa.
The challenge partners are the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA); the Department of Science and Technology (DST); the Embassy of Switzerland in South Africa; the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), and the Swiss Leading houses of the University of Basel and the Swiss Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH).
The intention of this challenge is to identify promising social and technological innovations that could be implemented in the housing environment across South Africa.
The challenge owners are interested in identifying and supporting sustainable innovations aiming to improve health in low-income urban settlements in South Africa.