The vision for our Global Challenge programme is to accelerate innovation and collaboration to address global health and environmental challenges.
Our Global Challenge topics are driven by unmet needs, industry R&D priorities, and alignment with sustainable development and growth. They present the opportunity for academic researchers, technology transfer offices, startups, and biotech companies to have their projects or assets proactively disseminated to industry R&D decision-makers with the aim of starting new partnering conversations.

The Global Challenge campaigns leverage our online partnering platform, Connect, and our own in-house STEM expertise, to focus and drive collaboration in a challenge area of benefit to society and the environment.
We also run an online event programme associated with the campaign to initiate new connections and uncover the top research priorities for academia and industry within the space. To close the campaign, we also publish an R&D trends report summarizing our findings from the campaign.

We aim to start new conversations between teams across industry and academia helping to advance, deploy and commercialize new solutions that address our challenge topics.

We work to surface the latest research, technologies, and assets relating to the campaign topic that are available and seeking industry collaboration from academic teams, startups, and biotech companies around the world, matching them with industry R&D teams working on aligned solutions through our online partnering platform.

The Global Challenges program helps us raise our profile and to continue growing our online network of scientific decision-makers (of which there are 17,000 registered) alongside leveraging our position in the scientific ecosystem to accelerate technical solutions to global challenges.

• Academic researchers at any stage of their career
• R&D, business development, S&E, open innovation leads from industry
• Anyone working in an R&D-centred company looking to source or connect with innovation from academia, startups and biotechs
• VC firms
• Technology transfer offices, research commercialization, and industry engagement teams/departments in academic institutes

Our Global Challenge campaigns are free and open to all participants.

You will need to create an account on our online partnering platform to submit or review submissions. It's free and should take less than a minute to join.

For each Global Challenge campaign, we partner with organizations across the research, knowledge transfer, and R&D ecosystems to boost the reach of the campaigns, and to help define the scope and provide expertise.

Through each campaign, we establish the current technical R&D challenges and priorities in the topic area to provide a 'market pull', surfacing research and innovation of relevance to industrial needs.

Our strategic partners provide expertise and insights across the research ecosystem within the scope of the challenge topic. Our strategic partners are professional organizations with shared aims of accelerating solutions in the challenge area, who boost the messages of our campaigns across their extended networks.

Previous campaign partners include knowledge exchange and technology transfer associations such as ASTP and PraxisAuril, industry associations such as the BioIndustry Association (BIA), the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), and academic institutions such as the National Institutes for Health (NIH).

After you have submitted an opportunity, you will receive an email confirming receipt. The opportunity will then be uploaded to our partnering platform, Connect. It will be fed into our matchmaking systems and proactively disseminated to R&D teams with aligned interests, including the industry campaign partners.

For R&D teams who want to learn more about your opportunity or to start a conversation with your team, we will then provide a direct introduction via email for you to open a dialogue and to share further details of your work or the project.

We don't take any finders fees or success fees. The conversations started through this campaign and our online platforms are hosted exclusively between you and the other partner.

Yes. Our free-to-attend online partnering event series runs alongside each Global Challenge campaign. The events provide an opportunity for our campaign partners across industry and academia to present their R&D priorities, technical needs, approaches to partnering, and research expertise. They also provide an opportunity for our network to connect and initiate partnering conversations.

Our webinars are all online and free to attend. Full recordings of each event are circulated to all who register.

• Information about your project or technology will be distributed to industry R&D teams with aligned research interests through our online matchmaking platform, Connect.
• Submitting your work does not require a subscription to our platform, there will be no costs from Inpart at any stage.
• Support from our team of STEM experts will be provided where required to review and quality-control submissions.
• Any information sent to us should be non-confidential.
• If you are aware of research or technology transfer taking place at your institute or company to develop new innovations addressing the challenge, please share the submission form with relevant colleagues or contacts.
• A maximum of 6 submissions can be made per department or faculty and we reserve the right to only accept research that is aligned with the aims and themes outlined in the call.
• For institutes or biotech companies subscribed to our Connect platform with a submission limit, any new technologies that are submitted to the global challenge will not count towards your submission total. After the campaign closes, this exemption will no longer apply, and you may be asked to unlist technologies and/or upgrade your submission limit if your current limit is exceeded.
• Universities, biotechs or startups with relevant technologies already listed on Inpart can nominate technologies to request their inclusion in the campaign.

We strongly advise submitting your research in advance of the campaign deadline to maximise exposure with our industry networks for a longer duration.