# International award available for new technologies for blind people

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/03/08/international-award-available-new-technologies-blind-people/
- Published: 2006-03-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Fourth International R&D Award in New Technologies for the Blind and Visually
Impaired is now open for nominations. The ‚€240,000 award is provided by ONCE, the
Spanish National Organization for the Blind, with the goal of encouraging technology-
related developments that correct or overcome the limitations caused by visual impairedness.

 

 

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For the Fourth R&D Award, the relevant areas of technology-related research include
engineering, artificial intelligence, computer sciences, telecommunications, microtechnology
and nanoelectronics.

 

 

The deadline for submitting entries is 30 June 2006. All submission materials must
bee in either English or Spanish.

 

 

In the last Awards, 84 projects were submitted, coming from 18 countries in Europe,
Asia and America.

 

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