[Tropmed-l] Fwd: Call for Letters of Inquiry and Capability Declarations Responsive to the Reinvent The Toilet Challenge (round 2)

[Carlos Costa]

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From: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation <
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Date: 2012/4/23
Subject: Call for Letters of Inquiry and Capability Declarations Responsive
to the Reinvent The Toilet Challenge (round 2)
To: chncosta em gmail.com



 Dear Colleagues:

 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting innovators to send letters
of inquiry for the following opportunity:

 *Reinvent The Toilet Challenge — RTTC (round
2)<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/rfloi-reinvent-the-toilet-challenge.aspx>
*

 We are calling for a new set of innovative ideas to support our effort to
reinvent the toilet. Grants will be awarded to exceptionally
highly-qualified research groups interested in contributing to major
advances in human sanitation in the developing world. These R&D efforts
will comprise a new phase of the Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet
Challenge: fast-paced designing, prototyping and demonstrating-in-operation
of entirely stand-alone, self-contained, eminently-practical sanitation
modules which intake bodily wastes and swiftly dispose of them definitively
— without any incoming water piping, outgoing sewer piping or electric or
gas utility services. These modules must intake all outputs of the serviced
population — ultimately at single-residence scales — with minimal module
footprints and assured biosafety. Thus, chemical and mechanical engineering
approaches are preferred.

 Letters of inquiry are being accepted online until Thursday, May 10, 2012
10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. A full description of the topic and
application instructions is available at
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/reinvent-the-toilet-loi<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/rfloi-reinvent-the-toilet-challenge.aspx>.


 If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity, please email us at
GDWSHInbox em gatesfoundation.org.  Applicants can be at any experience level;
in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and
universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit
organizations and for profit companies. We are looking forward to receiving
innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you
have a great idea, please apply. If you know someone else who may have a
great idea, please forward this message.

 Thank you for your commitment to solving one the world's greatest health
and development challenges.

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Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.
Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
(Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine)
President

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Instituto de Doenças Tropicais Natan Portella
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