IdeaConnection: Idea, Innovation and Invention Challenges and Contests

Democracy Pioneers

Deadline: 2020-01-31
Total Award: £100,000
Open to: UK organizations*

Do you have an exciting and and creative idea on how to improve democracy and civic participation in the UK?

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.

Rapid Detection of Intermolecular Interactions

Deadline: 2020-02-03
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a new molecular interaction detection technique that does not require immobilization?

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.

Speak the Same Language in PsA

Deadline: 2020-02-09
Total Award: $32,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a novel method that greatly improves the diagnosis and pain treatment for psoriatic arthritis patients?

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

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?

Wise Drinking Challenge

Deadline: 2020-02-17
Total Award: € 50,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have an idea to utilize technology in a way that will help people to not over-indulge in alcohol?

Novel Methods for Propagating Viral Strains in Cell Culture

Deadline: 2020-02-17
Total Award: $30,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you develop a method to grow viral strains of African Swine Fever Virus in continuous cell culture models, in an effort to identify host factors?

Healthy Longevity

Deadline: 2020-02-20
Total Award: $5,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Are you working in an area of research that improves human health and well-being in old age?

Next Generation Cell Retention for High Cell Density Upstream Bioprocesses

Deadline: 2020-02-22
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you create a bioprocess to generate high cell density cultures that maintain high cell viability, while reducing sieving & fouling effects?

InfraChallenge

Deadline: 2020-02-24
Total Award: $50,000 AUD
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a radical new idea to introduce digital innovation for infrastructure?

Future Skills Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2020-02-28
Total Award: $25,000
Open to: Companies, Non-Profits*

What work skills do you think are vital to creating a better tomorrow?

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

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

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?

TD Insurance Make a Difference 2

Deadline: 2020-03-01
Total Award: $4,100 CAD
Open to: students 18+*

Can you come up with a unique way for TD to positively impact society, community and colleagues?

Accident Shield Innovation Competition 2020

Deadline: 2020-03-01
Total Award: 10,000 AED
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have an interesting world-changing idea that can save lives in accidents using innovation driven technology?

Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-01
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

Digital Workforce Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-02
Total Award: $100,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have an idea on how to equalize access and opportunities across all populations in the technology-enabled and digitally literate workforces of the future?

Rio Tinto Ore Upgrading Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-02
Total Award: $350,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a new method to increase titanium dioxide content in ilmenite ore?

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?

Lululemon Healthier Communities

Deadline: 2020-03-03
Total Award: $16,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you present an idea to improve mind and body in-store consumer experiences for lululemon shoppers?

Wet Optical Bonding

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

Can you come up with a way to resolve the issue of defects created in the manufacturing process of digital instrument panels for cars?

Ocean Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-05
Total Award: Up to $250,000
Open to: Governments, private entities, academic institutions*

Do you have a breakthrough idea that can transform the health of the ocean?

Next Generation Dispenser

Deadline: 2020-03-05
Total Award: € 5,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have an idea for an environmentally sustainable actuator for aerosol packaging?

First of Its Kind Competition

Deadline: 2020-03-11
Total Award: £9,400,000
Open to: Businesses in UK, EU, EEA*

Can you develop rail innovations for sustainability, customer experience, operations or maintenance?

Plastics Data Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-13
Total Award: $22,500
Open to: Everyone*

Are you a Data Scientist with a desire to develop a solution to be applied across plastic waste management and recycling value chains in South and Southeast Asia to help end ocean plastic pollution?

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?

Food Service Design

Deadline: 2020-03-20
Total Award: € 5,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a new, attractive and functional display and distribution furnishing system for the food service sector?

The Geneva Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-23
Total Award: 25,000 CHF
Open to: Graduate Students*

Can you design a realistic solution to any international development problem?

NFL Helmet Challenge

Deadline: 2020-03-23
Total Award: $2,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Help to reduce head injuries in the high impact sport of football by submitting your ideas for improved helmet designs.

2020 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition

Deadline: 2020-03-30
Total Award: $27,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a unique design or application for aluminum extrusion?

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

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.

Geothermal Design Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-03
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: US students*

Are you a student with a keen interest in geographic information system mapping? Can you create an interactive map to discover potential opportunities from a geothermal energy source?