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: 17
Prize Money Available: $43,806,700

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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.

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.

DiamArt Luxury Design

Deadline: 2020-10-13
Total Award: 1st Award Eur 4000, Each additional award Eur 2000
Open to: Anyone*

DiamArt and Desall invite you to design a new product or a new collection for the luxury world, conceived to be embellished by the innovative micro diamonds material DiamArt.

voestalpine - combining metals

Deadline: 2020-10-28
Total Award: € 6,900
Open to: Everyone*

voestalpine has developed two different technologies to optimize product properties of steel. In principle, both technologies pursue the same goal: Creating new product properties of steel by combining different materials into one. Now, the goal is to discover various application fields.

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?

Disruptive Plastic Packaging Challenge

Deadline: 2020-11-25
Total Award: 5800$ (5000 EUR)
Open to: Anyone*

Desall, in collaboration with a leading company in the PET plastic packaging industry, invites you to propose innovative concepts for a new generation of recyclable packages.

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.

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

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: 17 Prize Money Available: $43,806,700