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This award seeks to recognize multidisciplinary project teams undertaking exemplary transectoral collaboration addressing a complex societally relevant issue. These research teams work collaboratively with actively engaged participants from different sectors — academia, business and industry, government laboratories and agencies, and organizations in civil society. Exemplary transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral projects must integrate the following characteristics:


Dual motivations or integrated purposes that seek new knowledge and address a critical societal challenge. 
Shared leadership by academic researchers and researchers representing wider society, working in a collaborative and equitable partnership. 
Sustained urgency and intensely focused on addressing a societal program while recognizing that fundamental understanding requires sustained effort.