Google is making available $20 million in funding, via its charitable arm Google.org, through the Google Impact Challenge to charities and non-profits to help create access, awareness and solutions for people with disabilities.

It has launched a call for ideas about how technology can expand opportunity and independence for people with disabilities. Submission requirements must be big and transformative, technology based at heart, must have the potential to scale and have strong and nimble teams behind them.

The deadline for applications is 30^th September 2015 and successful applicants can expect funding of up to $1 million.

It has highlighted examples of the sorts of idea it is seeking – 3D printed prosthetics for children from Enable,, devices to overcome problems with eating due to tremors, from Liftware and inexpensive mobile solutions for screening for hearing loss from World Wide Hearing.

It has also asked people with disabilities to suggest improvements they would like to see.

“Historically, people living with disabilities have relied on technologies that were often bulky, expensive, and limited to assisting with one or two specific tasks. But that’s beginning to change. Thanks to groups like Enable and World Wide Hearing, and with tools like Liftware, we’re starting to see the potential for technologies that can profoundly and affordably impact millions. But we’ll all get there sooner if we make it a team effort—which is why we’re launching Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities today. Together, we can create a better world, faster,” said Jacquelline Fuller, director of Google.org in a blog post about the funding.

Project advisors to Google on the Impact Challenge are Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University and Catalina Devandas Aguilar, UN special rapporteur on the rights of people with disabilities.