Announcement from the Ministry of Science and the Ramon Foundation
If you have an idea for a technological venture that can change the lives of millions of Israelis, the Ramon Foundation and the Ministry of Science and Technology invite you to participate in the Ilan and Asaf Ramon Trailblazers competition.
The winners of the competition will benefit from a scholarship worth $30,000 for the summer program of Singularity University at the NASA base in California.
The Ilan and Asaf Ramon Trailblazers Competition is taking place for the third year in which young entrepreneurs who have developed an actual proposal for a social-technological venture with the potential to improve the lives of at least one million Israelis compete. The jury in the competition includes senior people from the government, academia, the business sector and the social sector, who annually choose two groundbreaking projects from dozens of proposals submitted to the competition.
The winners of the competition will represent Israel in the summer program of Singularity University which lasts ten weeks together with the best minds from 80 countries. The participants of the program will receive assistance in the development of their projects, will be exposed to the most advanced technologies in the world, will meet with leading lecturers in the field such as the heads of Facebook, Google and representatives of the White House and will have a glimpse of NASA's future laboratories.
In the previous competitions, proposals that sought to solve the problem of garbage bags in nature by inventing a unifying glue, save space by developing spiral escalators and allow monitoring of physiological parameters in real time were won.
According to Ariel Brickman, CEO of the Ramon Foundation: "Excellence is not limited to a geographic area or a socioeconomic cross-section. We believe that the joint and continuous effort of the Ministry of Science and the Foundation will allow us to reach those outstanding young people who have the potential to influence the future of the State of Israel."
Bachelor's degree graduates and above are welcome to submit proposals for the competition. Registration for the competition has opened these days and will continue until December 21, 2012. The semi-finals will take place in mid-February and the final will take place two weeks later.
For registration and more details, Competition website
