Technology Academy Finland

Technology Academy Finland (TAF) awards the global one-million-euro Millennium Technology Prize and runs associated events and initiatives.

The Millennium Technology Prize is the preeminent €1 million award focused on technological innovations for a better life. The winning innovations are scientifically rigorous, globally accessible, and uniquely significant in their field.

TAF’s agenda:

• Voicing public debate on the significance of technology and promoting innovations for a better life
• Providing a neutral collaboration forum for business, academia and governmental organizations
• Encouraging young people to study and choose a career in technology

One of TAF’s strengths is the tripartite cooperation between industry, governmental organizations and the scientific community and its extensive network in all these sectors. The three sectors are also represented in the TAF Board and in the different committees.

TAF started operating under the name of the Finnish Technology Award Foundation in 2003. In 2005, the name changed to the Millennium Prize Foundation. The name was changed to the Technology Academy Finland in 2008.

TAF’s mission:

Technology Academy Finland (TAF) governs and develops the Millennium Technology Prize, increases public awareness of the Prize and ensures its high academic standard. TAF provides an international meeting ground for corporate life, academia and policymakers, and improves Finland’s position in the global community.

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.

STORY

The Millennium Technology Prize is the pre-eminent €1 million award focused on technological innovations for a better life.

The world around us never stands still. We have to make sure that the world keeps on moving. We must look forward, find new innovations and push for research that makes new technologies possible. We need technology that helps us stop climate change and harming the environment. We need innovations that are sustainable and accessible for everyone.

We just need to act now.

The Millennium Technology Prize is Finland’s tribute to innovations that promote the well-being of humankind and society. Technology Academy Finland (TAF) is the home of the Prize and the President of the Republic of Finland is the patron of it. The global one-million-euro prize was first awarded in 2004. The Prize indicates the crucial role technology and science play in solving the great challenges of the world. Adequate food, energy and materials, a clean environment, and combatting serious diseases are all issues we must not take for granted.

All present and future winners of the Millennium Technology Prize have had the courage and curiosity to explore the world from new perspectives. They are pioneers, people who make scientific knowledge bloom in the form of revolutionary innovations and new technologies, the ones who develop technologies to respond to the greatest challenges of our time, such as climate change.

Technological innovations serve the common good, build bridges across cultural boundaries, and create a better, cleaner and more sustainable world in which everyone has room to live.

The world needs innovations. Innovations for a better life.

MISSION AND VISION

The mission of the Millennium Technology Prize is to celebrate the world’s greatest technological innovations that are crucial in solving global challenges.

Our vision is that the Millennium Technology Prize is the most prestigious technology prize in the world.

• The Prize is awarded for technological innovations

CONTACT US

Office

Technology Academy Finland
Firdonkatu 2 T 63
00520 Helsinki, FINLAND
info@millenniumprize.org