{"id":61506,"date":"2015-09-15T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9b2a66631f477686888659193ab760ca"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:22:55","slug":"news-story-tracking-well-being-with-technology-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61506","title":{"rendered":"News story: Tracking well-being with technology: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK\u2019s IC tomorrow programme is looking to award up to \u00a335,000 each to 5 businesses that come up with innovative digital ideas relevant to the quantified self movement and improvements in well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses will have the opportunity to work alongside partners including the celebrity chef <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamieoliver.com\/#vdxxJF7FPV81LOd0.97\">Jamie Oliver<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toshiba.co.uk\">Toshiba<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axappphealthcare.co.uk\">AXA PPP Healthcare<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saga.co.uk\">Saga<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bupa.co.uk\">Bupa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"challenges\">Challenges<\/h2>\n<p>The quantified self is the acquisition of self-knowledge through self-tracking with technology. This competition seeks projects across the theme challenges of nutrition, older people, younger people, mental health and data capture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>nutrition: to empower children, adults and families to eat healthily &#8211; in partnership with Jamie Oliver<\/li>\n<li>younger people: to get teenagers to take ownership of their own data for self-improvement &#8211; with Toshiba<\/li>\n<li>older people: to use self-tracking or sensing technology &#8211; by Saga<\/li>\n<li>mental health: to use self-monitoring to improve mental well-being in the workplace &#8211; with AXA PPP Healthcare<\/li>\n<li>data: to find innovative ways of recording data for well-being applications &#8211; with Bupa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open and the deadline for applications is noon on 27 October 2015<\/li>\n<li>the competition is open to businesses in the UK or EU<\/li>\n<li>up to \u00a335,000 is available to develop the successful project under each challenge<\/li>\n<li>businesses have the opportunity to trial their ideas with industry partners while keeping their intellectual property<\/li>\n<li>briefing events will be held in London on September 21 2015 and in Cambridge on September 22 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/quantified-self\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can win up to \u00a335,000 for innovative projects that look into improving well-being through self-tracking, monitoring and sensing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}