Partners
Be part of our unique Millennium Technology Prize partner network! By joining forces with us, you can highlight your company’s thought leadership in the field of technology, innovation and sustainability. Help us make the Prize even more relevant in today’s world – and future too.
Partners of the Millennium Technology Prize
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Sharing ideas and knowledge, and celebrating groundbreaking innovators through the Millennium Technology Prize shows the power of technology to solve the challenges the world faces, and improve people’s lives.
Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO, Nokia -
Commercializing science into sustainable technology innovations is at the core of Vaisala. We are honored to team up with Millennium Technology Prize to promote observations for a better world.
Kai Öistämö, President and CEO, Vaisala Oy
Technology Academy Finland is a participant of the
UN Global Compact initiative that supports the United Nations’ universal principles and Sustainable Development Goals. It has more than 17 000 member organizations around the world.
Become a partner
Through Millennium Technology Prize partnership, you can strengthen your organisation’s networking within the business and academic communities and innovation influencers. You will also be able to highlight your organisation’s commitment to ESG and UN Sustainable Development Goals in the 2024 Millennium Technology Prize round, with an emphasis on global solutions for global challenges.
We expect our partners to be committed to sustainable development and responsible business. You should also have lively interest on how technologies are used for the benefit of the Earth and humankind.
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BENEFITS:
As a Millennium Technology Prize corporate partner, you will get:
- Visibility and opportunity to participate in the Millennium Technology Prize Gala and the Millennium Technology Prize Forum
- Membership in
Science and Innovation committee
Identifies and defines the innovation branch in Finland and the most significant phenomena for it.
Communication committee
Finds the best ways to bring the Millennium Technology Prize and its values in partners’ own brand work .
Millennium Technology Prize Forum
Organizing
Committee- Millennium Youth Prize: technology competition for young innovators 19 years and younger
- A channel bringing the voice of the partner company to public view in conjunction with the Prize and its themes
- Opportunity to meet the winners of the Millennium Technology Prize
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We offer a possibility for organisations to support and participate in individual events organized by Technology Academy Finland, such as the Millennium Technology Prize Forum, Winner visits and the Millennium Youth Prize.
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We invite universities and research institutes to join us in maintaining and further strengthening the academic quality of the Prize. We are open to discuss ways in which the Millennium Technology Prize brand can be jointly utilized to highlight the commitment towards a sustainable world through multidisciplinary research, and to encourage the next generation to take up studies in science and technology.
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We seek collaboration with NGOs that share our values and goals.
Academic and Corporate partnerships
Maija Virmiala,
Network Manager