Innovation Contests and
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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: 7
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Plastics Challenge - In-situ Sensing Technology for Monitoring Microplastics in the Marine Environment

Plastics Challenge - In-situ Sensing Technology for Monitoring Microplastics in the Marine Environment

Deadline: 2021-05-26
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.



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)



EcoTox TARGET Challenge

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

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.



Reduce the use of Antibiotics

Reduce the use of Antibiotics

Deadline: 2022-09-29
Total Award: 8 000 000£
Open to: Businesses, Other, Researchers, Start-Ups, Students, Subject Matter Experts*

The challenge aims to create an inexpensive, easy-to-use point of care test kit for bacterial infections, which can provide reliable results.



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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