Awards

Eco-Route Ltd has developed a programme to encourage children to cycle or walk to school and to increase their levels of physical activity generally through an approach that involves the whole school. Carbon dioxide emissions are reduced directly through the substitution of motor transport with cycling and walking and indirectly through future healthcare savings.

Competition description

An SBRI competition launched in the East of England to look for ways that technology could be used to improve how children stay fit and healthy. Children are taking less exercise than they used to and there are rising rates of obesity amongst young people - increasing by 45% over the last 10 years.

A call for ideas that can make a difference to encouraging these children to take more exercise. Have you got a technology or product idea that could help? Your business may use technology that has previously had nothing to do with the healthcare sector, but could cross over into this area and demonstrate improvement.

The areas where we're looking for affordable technology to be applied are:

• Motivating children at risk of obesity to take more exercise
• Monitoring the amount of exercise that children are taking and encouraging them to be more active.