Apply for Beat the Beetle challenge and win $5000 cash (Award)

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Description

Beat the Beetle challenge

The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, is a snout beetle insect that has caused severe and widespread damage to coconut, date and oil plantations. Several approached to eradicate the problems as been attempted, with little sustainable results. The weevil larvae spend its entire four-month life cycle within the trunk of the palm tree. These larvae bore deep into the palm trunk, crowns, and offshoots, thereby hollowing the inside until the tree dies. The female RPW distributes her eggs within the cavities of a tree, typically at the base of the leaves, crowns, and adjacent to the offshoots. The larvae remain undetected, allowing several generations of weevil to develop within a single tree. As young palm trees are traded between countries, the pest spreads between plantations worldwide. Thus, to prevent the heavy implementation of potentially harmful pesticides, early detection, eradication treatment, and prevention methods are necessary to mitigate infestations.

Opportunity Focus Areas:
Energy
Agriculture
Environment
Resources
Technology
Science

Specialties

Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Agriculture., Business and Management, Computer Science and IT, Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences, General Engineering and Technology, Power and Energy Engineering

Eligibilities

Not Specified

Gender

Nationality

Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Yemen

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Intellectual property

Any intellectual property that results from the proposed solution will belong to the company that launched this challenge. The solution provider agrees to transfer any rights to the intellectual property of the proposed solution to the challenge owner

Solutions

Solution providers may submit more than one entry, and each entry will be treated as a separate entry

Patent

Solution providers that submit a solution that is already patent protected with a priority date before 1 May 2020, must agree to provide the Challenge Owner a fair, non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license in all Intellectual Property demonstrated by the winning/awarded solution. All Intellectual Property of Non-patented solutions will become the property of the Challenge Owner

Technical maturity

Please discuss the technical maturity of your proposed solution. We would prefer solutions that have a thorough theoretical base or has been proven in the conceptual stage, or of which a prototype is available. However, we don't want to exclude entries that simply identifies a potential solution which no-one else has thought about to date, and which may work very well

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How To Apply

Step 1: study the problem and current solutions well to know the pain point from here

Step 2: provide your own solution and register here

Note: All applicants will go through a process of:

Registration and Submissions

Submissions must be made online (only), via upload to the HeroX.com website, on or before the deadline as indicated.

Selection of Winners

Based on the winning criteria, prizes will be awarded according to the Judging Criteria.

Judging Panel

The determination of the winners will be made based on the evaluation by the relevant specialist

The selection criteria favor more mature solutions like a proof-of-concept, even ideas would qualify.

Please enter your full name and email address. If submitting as a team, please list the full name and email address of each team member. Provide the role/expertise for each team member.