SPRIND Challenges
Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.
SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) is Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, wholly owned by the Federal Republic and operating under the SPRIND-Freiheitsgesetz. That act lets SPRIND build funding arrangements that sit outside normal German grant law, which is why a Challenge can pay a team several million euros on a fixed-price contract.
Challenges are not one call with…
The Challenges programme as a whole. Each SPRIND Challenge is a separate competition carrying its own topic, its own deadline and its own funding.
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