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Millennium Technology Prize Announcement and Award Ceremony
25 October 2022

Millennium Innovation Forum
25–26 October 2022

Nov 16, 2021 | 2022 Prize , Millennium Technology Prize

Record number of women nominated for the Millennium Technology Prize

A record-breaking 28.1% of the nominees for the 2022 Millennium Technology Prize are women. The last time the prize was awarded, in 2020, women accounted for only 9.9% of the nominated innovators.Read more ›

Oct 6, 2021 | Millennium Technology Prize , News

As a UN Global Compact participant, we want to debate big world challenges

Technology Academy Finland (TAF), the foundation awarding the Millennium Technology Prize, is proud to be a participant of the United Nations Global Compact sustainability initiative. Global Compact helps organisations to develop better practices regarding human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption and to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Read more ›

Sep 16, 2021 | 2020 Prize , Millennium Technology Prize

COVID-19 vaccines were rapidly developed using DNA sequencing technology

Chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman from Cambridge University were awarded the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for the DNA sequencing techniques they developed. Thanks to the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)…Read more ›