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.
World's biggest and most popular list of Live Challenges
Number of Live Challenges: 75
Prize Money Available: $70,377,339
Data Centre Discovery Tool with Options Analysis
Deadline: 2019-10-24Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian Corporations*
This challenge is looking for a streamlined approach for collecting and analyzing information from multiple data centres in an effort to consolidate infrastructure and strategies for data centre migrations.
2019 PAVE Student Design Competition
Deadline: 2019-11-07Award: $17,500
Open to: College Undergraduate Students*
This year’s challenge Bank of America invites you to create the ideal university on-campus free standing pop-up banking experience for students during the beginning stages of their financial journey.
Energy Sector Technology Innovation Challenge
Deadline: 2019-11-15Award: $500,000
Open to: Some countries excluded*
Do you have an idea that solves energy sector development efficiency challenges in the areas of Heating and cooling technologies, Renewable Energy-Based Microgrids, or AI for Energy Demand Management?
Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge 2
Deadline: 2019-11-15Award: $250,000
Open to: Everyone*
This challenge is seeking innovative solutions from forecasting enthusiasts, data scientists, computer programmers, and/or economists that take on prediction of geopolitical events with deadlines and locations.
The 3rd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo
Deadline: 2019-11-15Award: ¥2,000,000
Open to: Everyone*
This contest calls for new applications, such as smartphone apps, Web services and ideas using open data of public transportation and open data from other sources. The goal is to make Tokyo easier to navigate before the 2020 Olympics.
10th Annual International Open Innovation Contest
Deadline: 2019-11-20Award: $100,000
Open to: Entrepreneurs, startups, students*
NTT DATA’s 10th annual international Open Innovation Contest invites startup businesses around the globe to submit ideas for new technologies that can make the world a better place.
The Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2
Deadline: 2019-12-20Award: $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.
Cultural Innovation International Prize: Internet
Deadline: 2019-12-31Award: €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.
Developing Predictive Biomarkers of SUDEP
Deadline: 2020-10-10Award: $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
Deadline: 2020-12-31Award: $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: 2021-01-01Award: €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.
Low-Cost Space Launch
Deadline: 2021-06-01Award: €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)
Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life Prize
Deadline: 2026-11-17Award: $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.
* Details may apply. See contest website to confirm eligibility.