Submission Information
Eligibility Criteria
- Team size: 1 (min) to 6 (max)
- At least one team member is affiliated with the University of Cambridge (students, alumn, postdocs, fellows, and lecturers included)
- Research or Venture has received less than GBP150k in funding to date
- Aims to integrate or has integrated blockchain or other forms of distributed technologies into their solution/research in any way or form
What to submit
Tell us about yourself and your idea:- Team contact information (name, email, affiliation)
- Abstract: describe your research or venture idea in 50 words or less
Your presentation deck should tell us about the following. The number of slides are only suggestions, feel free to structure it whichever way tells your idea the best
If you are submitting a venture idea:
- Describe the Idea
- The problem (2-3 slides)
- What is the problem you are solving?
- Why is this important?
- The solution (2-3 slides)
- What is your solution? Please be specific (what have you created or intend to create)
- Why is your solution novel, unique, interesting, or disruptive?
- Why are decentralised technologies (blockchain or any other form) or decentralisation a good solution for this problem?
- What have you achieved to date, technically and commercially?
- The Future Business Project (2-3 slides)
- The prize
- What would you use the funds for?
- The team
- Who is on the team?
- What are their roles and experience / backgrounds?
- Funding
- Have you raised any funding to date?
- If answer is (yes) to above, how much?
- Is there anything else you would like us to know? (1 slide)
If you are submitting a research idea:
- Describe the Idea
- The problem (2-3 slides)
- What is the research question?
- Why is this important?
- The solution (2-3 slides)
- What is your research design?
- What is your expected contribution?
- Why are decentralised technologies (blockchain or others) or decentralisation a good solution for this problem?
- What have you achieved to date?
- The Future Research Project (2-3 slides)
- The prize
- What would you use the funds for?
- The team
- Who is on the team?
- What are their roles and experience / backgrounds?
- Funding
- Have you raised any funding to date?
- If answer is (yes) to above, how much?
- Is there anything else you would like us to know? (1 slide)
Evaluation Criteria
Mandatory for All: Fulfil eligibility criteria - Cambridge affiliation, <£150k funding raised to date
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