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Date: 2012/4/23<br>Subject: Call for Letters of Inquiry and Capability Declarations Responsive to the Reinvent The Toilet Challenge (round 2)<br>To: <a href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com">chncosta@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><table width="611" align="center" cellspacing="0">
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Dear Colleagues:
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting innovators to send letters of inquiry for the following opportunity:
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<b><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/rfloi-reinvent-the-toilet-challenge.aspx" target="_blank">Reinvent The Toilet Challenge — RTTC (round 2)</a></b>
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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.
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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 <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/rfloi-reinvent-the-toilet-challenge.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.gatesfoundation.org/reinvent-the-toilet-loi</a>.
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If you have questions regarding this grant opportunity, please email us at <a href="mailto:GDWSHInbox@gatesfoundation.org" target="_blank">GDWSHInbox@gatesfoundation.org</a>.
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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.
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Thank you for your commitment to solving one the world's greatest health and development challenges.
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Carlos H. N. Costa, MD, DSc.</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical </span></div>
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