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: 14
Prize Money Available: $41,138,200

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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.

DESITA AWARD 2020 - GELATO & PIZZA EXPERIENCE

Deadline: 2020-12-17
Total Award: Total Award EUR 7000
Open to: Anyone*

Desita and Desall are glad to announce the launch of the new edition of the DESITA AWARD – GELATO & PIZZA EXPERIENCE, taking the international call for ideas to its 6th edition.

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.

Fashion Atelier (Toy design)

Deadline: 2021-01-21
Total Award: 5800$ (5000 EUR)
Open to: Anyone*

Clementoni and Desall invite you to design a new toy capable of creating fashion accessories or other decorative elements in an automated way.

Laundry Tool Design

Deadline: 2021-02-03
Total Award: EUR 4500 (USD ca 5340)
Open to: Anyone*

RB and Desall invite you to find a tool for collecting and removing the dirt from the water used to hand wash clothes in countries with water scarcity and poor water quality.

Bath 'n' Fun by Primi Sogni

Deadline: 2021-02-16
Total Award: €4000
Open to: Anyone*

Primi Sogni and Desall invite you to design a new foldable baby bath/changing unit.

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: 14 Prize Money Available: $41,138,200