The Manchester Prize provides a range of support to finalists, designed to give each team the greatest possible chance of success, and to enable them to develop their solutions as rapidly as possible, regardless of whether they win the grand prize.
Funding must be used on research and development related to your proposal, but you do not need to provide evidence of match funding, it is not a loan, we do not take any equity and you do not sign away rights to your intellectual property.
Throughout the finalist phase, teams will have access to a package of free compute to help develop their solutions. Further information on this will be announced during the entrant phase.
We will work with teams during the finalist phase to identify and convene key stakeholders in match-making sessions. Finalists will be given the opportunity to connect with problem holders and potential adopters in the public and private sectors, and investors at match-making events.
We will support finalists to identify, access and use open datasets. In the entry form, we ask entrants to specify what kind of data their proposal could benefit from. The type of support we can offer in the finalist phase will depend on the type of data requested, but may include putting innovators in contact with organisations who generate and host data and can provide guidance on its use.
