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Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge

Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge

Total Award: $750,000
Open to: Everyone*

This competition is seeking innovations to tackle social and environmental issues related to Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining that: Prevent, remediate, and restore the environment; Reform supply chains; Improve global data



Designing for Affordability

Designing for Affordability

Deadline: 2019-12-06
Total Award: $17,000
Open to: University or college students*

Can you design a product that can promote a long and healthy life for the 99%?



Management of the Machinery and Performance in a Construction Company

Management of the Machinery and Performance in a Construction Company

Deadline: 2019-12-10
Total Award: € 10,000
Open to: Everyone*

do you have an idea that facilitates construction machinery real-time monitorization?



Home of 2030 Innovation Challenge

Home of 2030 Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-13
Total Award: £10,000
Open to: Registered business or supplier in England*

Do you have a novel home building plan that is sustainable, inclusive and will change the way we live together in a community?



USAID Household Solar Workforce Development Challenge

USAID Household Solar Workforce Development Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-15
Total Award: $350,000
Open to: Entities in sub-Saharan Africa*

Do you have a really interesting third party employee training solution for off-grid solar home systems?



JBC Masonry Innovation Challenge

JBC Masonry Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-15
Total Award: $30,000
Open to: University students*

Do you have a unique masonry idea that changes the way design and construction delivery experience look like?



Car Cooling System Innovation Challenge

Car Cooling System Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-16
Total Award: € 10,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you an HVAC expert? Do you have an idea for a comfortable and low energy consumption and cost-efficient system?



Interior Car Lights Challenge

Interior Car Lights Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-16
Total Award: € 10,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a complete interior car lighting system with all possible functions, including control and operating technology?



The Hult Prize

The Hult Prize

Deadline: 2019-12-17
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: University or college students*

Are you a Social Entrepreneur with a big idea that would positively impact the planet?



User Interface Competition

User Interface Competition

Deadline: 2019-12-18
Total Award: € 4,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you a UX designer? Can you create a graphic interface and user experience with regards to warehouse systems?



SAP's Data Anonymization Challenge

SAP's Data Anonymization Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-19
Total Award: $60,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you a Machine Learning Expert with an interesting idea on how to protect personally identifying information in data sets?



SAP's Data Anonymization Challenge

SAP's Data Anonymization Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-19
Total Award: $60,000
Open to: Everyone*

This challenge seeks Data Scientists who can recognize personally identifying information within semi-structured data and then anonymize it.



National Bank Innovation Competition

National Bank Innovation Competition

Deadline: 2019-12-20
Total Award: $100,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian citizens and entities*

Wealth Management Industry Entrepreneurs with disruptive ideas in money management are encouraged to submit their solutions!



The Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2

The Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2

Deadline: 2019-12-20
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: Some countries excluded*

Can you develop a software for space? NASA is looking for ways to allow a virtual team of robotic systems to autonomously complete tasks envisioned for a lunar in-situ resource utilization mission.



Battery Operated Air Conditioning System for Vehicles in Mines

Battery Operated Air Conditioning System for Vehicles in Mines

Deadline: 2019-12-23
Total Award: INR 5,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a fuel-efficient method of keeping an mine excavator operator cool in summer heat without keeping the engine running?



MNRE Startup Grand Challenge

MNRE Startup Grand Challenge

Deadline: 2019-12-31
Total Award: Rs 22,00,000
Open to: Startups and innovators*

Do you have an innovative new solution that involves renewable energy?
Bring your ideas here!



Cultural Innovation International Prize: Internet

Cultural Innovation International Prize: Internet

Deadline: 2019-12-31
Total Award: €20,000
Open to: Everyone 18+*

This contest is to award innovative projects about the internet that propose actions in areas such as accessibility, security, privacy, ecological impact, ethics, or any other topic that empowers internet users and an improved network.



Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid Challenge

Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-01
Total Award: € 5,000,000
Open to: Legal Entities*

Can you develop a world changing, technologically advanced solution that enables the delivery of humanitarian aid?



Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid

Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid

Deadline: 2020-01-01
Total Award: €5,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Is being frugal your forte? If so this challenge is for you! The European Commission is looking for ways to deliver humanitarian aid based low cost applications of advanced technologies.



Automated Detection and Quantitation of Bone Marrow Cells

Automated Detection and Quantitation of Bone Marrow Cells

Deadline: 2020-01-03
Total Award: $25,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design an automated tool for the detection and quantitation of hematopoietic cells in scanned bone marrow tissue images for oncology reports?



Better With Less Design Challenge

Better With Less Design Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-05
Total Award: € 10,000
Open to: Designers*

Can you design a brand-aware, environmentally friendly package for a popular consumer product?



Digital Printing in Natural Fabrics

Digital Printing in Natural Fabrics

Deadline: 2020-01-06
Total Award: € 15,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you know of a novel digital printing method for natural fabrics?



The Diamond Challenge

The Diamond Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-08
Total Award: $100,000
Open to: High School Students*

This challenge aims to reward budding young entrepreneurs with great small business ideas.



Diversity in Innovation QuickFire Challenge

Diversity in Innovation QuickFire Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-09
Total Award: $250,000
Open to: US citizens and residents (some restrictions)*

Do you have a visionary idea in human healthcare that could change the way we help each other?



Improving Thermal Stability of Proteins

Improving Thermal Stability of Proteins

Deadline: 2020-01-11
Total Award: $30,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a method to prevent protein denaturing in animal feed during high heat processes?



Smart Airport Student Competition

Smart Airport Student Competition

Deadline: 2020-01-13
Total Award: $25,000
Open to: US college or university students*

Do you have an interesting idea on how to apply smart technology to enhancing and improving airline travel?



Rust Busters Challenge

Rust Busters Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-16
Total Award: $350,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you able to discover a novel and environmentally sound method to reduce corrosion and therefore extend the life of water infrastructure?



Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge

Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-17
Total Award: $350,000
Open to: Students*

Do you have a breakthrough technology solution that can be used to solve the world’s most important social and environmental problems?



Inspection and Condition Monitoring of Insulated Chiller Water Pipe Lines

Inspection and Condition Monitoring of Insulated Chiller Water Pipe Lines

Deadline: 2020-01-17
Total Award: INR 8,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a safe and efficient method to check the condition of chiller water pipelines?



Surface Inspection of Steel Sheets

Surface Inspection of Steel Sheets

Deadline: 2020-01-17
Total Award: INR 10,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you know of an online system that could be used for surface inspection of steel sheets for roughness, hardness and shape measurements?



Life Enhancement of Cooling Circuit Non-Return Valve in Slag Granulation Plant

Life Enhancement of Cooling Circuit Non-Return Valve in Slag Granulation Plant

Deadline: 2020-01-17
Total Award: INR 10,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you identify a Non Return Valve or a substitute that can improve working life of a cooling circuit in slag granulation plant?



Edge Inspection of Steel Sheets

Edge Inspection of Steel Sheets

Deadline: 2020-01-17
Total Award: INR 3,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have an idea to replace manual edge inspection for coil at the pickling line?



Novel Methods For Deep Hole Drilling

Novel Methods For Deep Hole Drilling

Deadline: 2020-01-17
Total Award: INR 3,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have an interesting idea to replace the current method for Deep hole drilling process and Assembly?



2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge

2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-21
Total Award: $8,500
Open to: Everyone*

How can we use data-driven strategies to maximize the amount of food we gain from crops by breeding plants with the strongest, highest-yielding genetics?



Wearable Robotics Innovation Challenge

Wearable Robotics Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2020-01-24
Total Award: $5,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a concept for a new wearable robotic that you would like to pitch?



Food System Vision Prize

Food System Vision Prize

Deadline: 2020-01-31
Total Award: $2,000,000
Open to: Legal entities*

Seeking to empower communities world wide to develop solutions and become activists in their own food future.



Children's QuickFire Challenge

Children's QuickFire Challenge

Deadline: 2020-02-07
Total Award: 150,000
Open to: Pediatric and influenza innovators*

Visionaries within the fields of pediatric oncology, pediatric surgery and influenza are invited to submit innovative ideas.



Ocean Observing Prize

Ocean Observing Prize

Deadline: 2020-02-12
Total Award: $3,125,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Are you an expert in renewable energy with a revolutionary idea on how to radically shift our capability to collect oceanographic data?



Inclusive Talent Pipeline for American Businesses

Inclusive Talent Pipeline for American Businesses

Deadline: 2020-02-14
Total Award: $380,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Do you have an inclusive business plan that helps to highlight the unique assets that employees disabilities offer?



Indy Autonomous Challenge

Indy Autonomous Challenge

Deadline: 2020-02-28
Total Award: $1,300,000
Open to: Universities and colleges*

The race is on! Can you program an autonomous race car that can beat them all?



UAE FoodTech Challenge

UAE FoodTech Challenge

Deadline: 2020-02-28
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you a food value chain expert with a breakthrough, efficient and sustainable idea?



Innovation Awards Roulier 2020

Innovation Awards Roulier 2020

Deadline: 2020-02-29
Total Award: $150,000
Open to: Universities and research institutes*

Do you have a research project that addresses ways to greatly improve Plant Nutrition or Animal Nutrition?



3-D Retina Organoid Challenge

3-D Retina Organoid Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-02
Total Award: $400,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Can you create a prototype that far surpasses currently available retina organoids?



Clean Tech Competition

Clean Tech Competition

Deadline: 2020-03-13
Total Award: $28,000
Open to: Students 13-15 yrs old*

Do you know of a pre-college teen with a breakthrough idea in sustainable energy sources that apply to individual use/impact?



The Extreme Tech Challenge

The Extreme Tech Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-30
Total Award: $10,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you an Entrepreneur with a world-changing idea that helps to solve one of the greatest challenges facing humankind?



Multi-Drug Resistance

Multi-Drug Resistance

Deadline: 2020-03-31
Total Award: €1,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Imagine a world where we no longer have to worry about antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. The challenge is to find a series of new agents able to do this with the help of a one hour diagnostic tool.



Innovative Designs for Accessibility

Innovative Designs for Accessibility

Deadline: 2020-04-30
Total Award: $7,500 CAD
Open to: Post secondary students*

Do you have a life-changing accessibility solution for people with disabilities?



Dacor National Design Contest

Dacor National Design Contest

Deadline: 2020-07-31
Total Award: $200,000
Open to: US and Canadian designers*

Innovative student and professional designers are invited to submit their unique ideas that conceptualise new ways kitchens can be designed.



Early Warning for Epidemics

Early Warning for Epidemics

Deadline: 2020-09-01
Total Award: €5,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

The winner of this challenge will create a cost effective early warning system prototype that can forecast and monitor infectious illnesses and pathogens in the human population.



Priority Health Innovation Challenge

Priority Health Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2020-09-30
Total Award: $400,000
Open to: Canadians*

Do you have a breakthrough innovation to improve access to mental health and addictions services, or home and community care for Canadians?



Developing Predictive Biomarkers of SUDEP

Developing Predictive Biomarkers of SUDEP

Deadline: 2020-10-10
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy affects hundreds of thousands of people living with seizures. This challenge is requesting neurologists to develop specific biomarkers of SUDEP, focusing on the seizures that affect cardiac function.



Alzheimer's Germ Quest

Alzheimer's Germ Quest

Deadline: 2020-12-31
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: Research Scientists*

Billions have been spent on Alzheimer's research, but what if the cause was as simple as a germ? If you're a research scientist and think it's possible the cause of Alzheimer's could be a simple germ this is a great challenge for you.



Fuel from the Sun: Artificial Photosynthesis

Fuel from the Sun: Artificial Photosynthesis

Deadline: 2021-01-01
Total Award: €5,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Synthetic Fuel could be the way of the future! This contest asks you to build a functional prototype that offers just that - an artificial photosynthesis based system able to produce an alternative synthetic fuel.



Food Generation

Food Generation

Deadline: 2021-03-31
Total Award: €1,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

We're lucky to have so many food choices today, but the time for this luxury is soon going to run out. The world's future population will just be too large to continue eating like this and Merck wants to find the solution.



Low-Cost Space Launch

Low-Cost Space Launch

Deadline: 2021-06-01
Total Award: €10,000,000
Open to: Everyone in an EU Member State*

Using a holistic approach and going further than existing solutions, find a creative and affordable solution which can be easily implemented for launching light satellites into low earth orbit (LEO)



DARPA Subterranean Challenge

DARPA Subterranean Challenge

Deadline: 2021-09-20
Total Award: $5,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you an underground systems expert with a novel idea for a technology to map subsurface networks in unpredictable conditions, in either a physical or Virtual way?



CO2 Conversion

CO2 Conversion

Deadline: 2022-03-31
Total Award: €1,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

What would be able to make a fuel from renewable energy, water and atmospheric carbon dioxide? If you have an amazing innovation in mind here is your place to shine.



Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life Prize

Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life Prize

Deadline: 2026-11-17
Total Award: $5,000,000
Open to: Everyone legally allowed to participate*

Genetic code experts and evolutionists are invited to help solve the mystery of the Origin of Life. If we can figure out the forces that create and propel life, a revolution in Artificial Intelligence is possible.




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