Innovation Contests and

CHALLENGES

List of online Innovation and Invention Challenges, Grand Challenges, Contests, and Competitions from around the world, all with Cash Awards and Prizes.

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Number of Live Challenges: 22
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Plastics Challenge - In-situ Sensing Technology for Monitoring Microplastics in the Marine Environment

Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking an innovative in situ (on-site) sensing technology for identification and quantification of microplastics in water.

AWS Hackdays Online 2020

Deadline: 2020-07-19
Total Award: USD 20,000 cash
Open to: Startups, entrepreneurs, working professionals, students*

This year, builders have the opportunity to shape the future of South-East Asia’s digitalization by bringing new solutions around today’s industry challenges: Sustainability, Learning & Development, Automation, and Security.

2020 Call for Code Global Challenge

Deadline: 2020-07-31
Total Award: $270,000
Open to: Everyone*

Seeking solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and climate change.

The Gawler Challenge

Deadline: 2020-07-31
Total Award: $250,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you find South Australia’s next big mineral deposit?

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.

Saule Technologies Awards 2020

Deadline: 2020-08-22
Total Award: $37k
Open to: everyone*

Saule Technologies is a high-tech company that develops innovative solar cells based on perovskite materials. We would like to invite to the first edition of Saule Technologies Awards 2020 everyone who wants to can contribute to change the future of our planet.

Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research

Deadline: 2020-08-28
Total Award: $250,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Use your big data analysis capabilities to help 6.5 million American adults living with heart failure.

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.

Transmitter Modular Challenge

Deadline: 2020-09-09
Total Award: EUR 5000
Open to: Anyone*

New product design contest on Desall.com: AUTEC and Desall invite you to design a new concept of portable modular transmitting unit.

Nature Contest

Deadline: 2020-09-15
Total Award: $1,200
Open to: Everyone*

Nature Contest is the greatest contest of ideas inspired from nature. Individual participants can participate in three different ways. They can a. Visualize a design concept for nature gadget, b. Write down a revolutionary nature policy or c. Share portfolio of their previous work.

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

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.

CHARIoT Challenge - Advancing First Responder Communications

Deadline: 2020-11-18
Total Award: $1,100,000
Open to: Everyone*

Build augmented reality interfaces for first responders or develop smart city data streams to simulate disaster scenarios.

Digital Solutions to Support Care Transitions Challenge

Deadline: 2020-11-20
Total Award: $175,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Can you help develop interoperable health information technology solutions that engage patients and family caregivers during care transitions from in-patient hospital care to home?

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

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

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

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)

EcoTox TARGET Challenge

Deadline: 2021-06-15
Total Award: $300,000
Open to: Companies, Institutions, NGOs*

Can you develop high quality, low-cost tools that assess global gene expression in common aquatic toxicity test organisms?

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

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

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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Innovation Contests and CHALLENGES

World's biggest and most popular list of Live Challenges Number of Live Challenges: 22 Prize Money Available: $39,916,150