IdeaConnection: Idea, Innovation and Invention Challenges and Contests

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.

Road Delineator Maintenance in the I-77 Express Lanes

Deadline: 2020-04-06
Total Award: $15,000
Open to: Everyone*

Road Delineator Maintenance in the I-77 Express Lanes. Can you come up with an efficient solution to improve the cleaning and replacement process of road delineators in highways?

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Increasing the Coal Tar Flow Rate in Burners without Affecting the Refractories

Deadline: 2020-04-06
Total Award: INR 9,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you help the seeker increase the flow rate of Coal tar in the burners of their Induration machines?

Producing Glass Wool and Insulating Building Materials from Wind Turbine Blades

Deadline: 2020-04-07
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a unique plan to create insulating material out of old wind turbine blades?

Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-07
Total Award: $15,000,000 CAD
Open to: Companies, Institutions, Labs*

Do you have an idea for new carbon fibre products and processes, created from oil sands bitumen?

Preventing Liquor Store Thefts and Robberies

Deadline: 2020-04-09
Total Award: $250,000 CAD
Open to: Everyone*

Can you devise a solution that can help reduce thefts and robberies in liquor stores, but with minimal impact on revenue loss and client experience?

Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

Deadline: 2020-04-10
Total Award: $17,500
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design an agile, productive, and autonomous industrial robot?

Telco: What's next? Future products and services in the connected world

Deadline: 2020-04-12
Total Award: €3,000
Open to: Everyone*

Together with you, we want to identify new business ideas and areas in which it can leverage our strengths in telecommunications and IT, but also concepts from other industries.

VR for Change Alcove Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-13
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you develop a module that promotes healthy aging and/or intergenerational connection?

Plastics Challenge - Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic Packaging

Deadline: 2020-04-14
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking the development of innovative alternative reusable or recyclable products and/or product systems that can replace one or more "challenging" plastic packaging product(s) that contribute to plastic waste and pollution.

Plastics Challenge - E-Waste

Deadline: 2020-04-14
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking a solution that will enable recycling of e-waste plastics and metals in Canada while respecting domestic and international requirements and obligations.

Plastics Challenge - Textiles and Microfibers

Deadline: 2020-04-14
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Can you find an innovative solution to the challenge of plastic waste from textiles and microfibers in Canada?

Mechanized Dressing System for Underground Coal Mine

Deadline: 2020-04-14
Total Award: INR 10,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a solution to eliminate manual dressing in underground coal mines and improve safety conditions for workers?.

Eco-Friendly Waste Converter

Deadline: 2020-04-16
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking a simple and eco-friendly way to lower emissions and reduce impact on the environment while managing refuse at GAC sites in Canada and abroad.

Outdoor Air Purifier

Deadline: 2020-04-16
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking a solution that will aid in the purification of air in areas around GAC buildings where there is excessive smoke and exhaust exposure.

Plastics Challenge - Diverting End of Life Vehicle Plastics from Landfills

Deadline: 2020-04-16
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking environmentally acceptable and cost-effective technologies that will enable the diversion of End of Life Vehicles (ELVs) plastics from landfills and their conversion into valuable materials and/or molecules.

Separation of Sodalite from Alkali-leached Coal

Deadline: 2020-04-16
Total Award: INR 8,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design a single-stage leaching process in order to attain complete ash removal from coal?

International Policy Ideas Challenge 2020

Deadline: 2020-04-17
Total Award: $30,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian Graduate Students*

Seeking to to identify concrete, innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges faced by Canada.

BASF Partner Up Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-19
Total Award: €30,000
Open to: Business entities*

Do you think your startup has a product or a service that can bring a new approach to the personal care or cosmetic market?

Energy Producing Window Coverings

Deadline: 2020-04-21
Total Award: $100,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking a window covering that, as well as reducing glare, will contribute to greater energy efficiency and convert solar energy to usable electrical energy.

Plastics Challenge - Recycled Plastic Ceiling Tiles

Deadline: 2020-04-21
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking a solution that will contribute to the circular economy by recycling plastic into ceiling tiles and that meet a high safety standard with no chemical emissions.

Future Oven Design

Deadline: 2020-04-21
Total Award: € 4,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you design the eco-friendly domestic oven of the future?

Innovations in Materials Science for a Transformative Menstrual Health and Hygiene Product

Deadline: 2020-04-22
Total Award: $100,000
Open to: Everyone*

Seeking innovation in materials science and transformative product development to better meet the needs of menstrual hygiene in low income countries.

Improving Access to and Use of Safe and Appropriate Cesarean Section

Deadline: 2020-04-22
Total Award: $100,000
Open to: Everyone*

Seeking proposals increasing access to cesarean section, increasing safety in the procedure and reducing rates of non-medically indicated cesarean section.

Accelerating Discovery for Non-Hormonal Contraceptives

Deadline: 2020-04-22
Total Award: $2,000,000
Open to: Companies, Organizations, Institutions*

Can you develop a safe and effective non-hormonal contraceptive?

Lithium Battery Man Portable Hazard Containment Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-23
Total Award: $750,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Seeking ideas and best practices for a technology development for a method that suitably mitigates inherent hazards with transporting small quantities of lithium batteries.

The Alternate Format Business Technology Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-23
Total Award: $150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian entities*

Seeking a solution that will result in innovation and efficiency in the production of, and access to, a wide variety of physical and digital alternate format materials.

Turning Pixels into Data: Imaging for Accessibility

Deadline: 2020-04-23
Total Award: S150,000 CAD
Open to: Canadian Entities*

Seeking to develop innovative capture solutions to improve accessibility of digitized documents and increase production capabilities.

2020 Radical Innovation Award

Deadline: 2020-04-23
Total Award: $18,000
Open to: Everyone*

Do you have a novel hospitality innovation that could greatly improve guest experience and forter industry growth?

Fish Protection Prize

Deadline: 2020-04-24
Total Award: $700,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Do you have an idea on how to help protect wild fish from human infrastructure that could harm them?

$100,000 for Start a SUD Startup Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-24
Total Award: $100,000
Open to: Individuals or Entities*

Are you a startup with an aim to support understanding and treatment of substance use disorders?

Identifying Protective Gene Combinations

Deadline: 2020-04-28
Total Award: $15,000
Open to: Everyone*

Looking to identify gene combinations that may provide protection from obesity and associated metabolic disorders.

Water Resource Recovery Prize

Deadline: 2020-04-28
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Do you have a passion and commitment to help provide safe drinking water to the world?

First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-30
Total Award: $552,000
Open to: Everyone*

Could your Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) win a competition for the “Last Drone Standing”?

NCATS Rare Diseases are Not Rare! 2020 Challenge

Deadline: 2020-04-30
Total Award: $5,000
Open to: Team Captain must be US citizen*

Seeking innovative ways to communicate with others and educate people about rare diseases through social media or art.

Apps 4 Digital Peace

Deadline: 2020-04-30
Total Award: $300,000
Open to: 16-32 year olds*

Develop original technology-based solutions, such as mobile applications, to both help limit the use of the internet as a domain of conflict, and to increase the stability of our online environment.

Innovative Designs for Accessibility

Deadline: 2020-04-30
Total Award: $7,500 CAD
Open to: Post secondary students*

Do you have a life-changing accessibility solution for people with disabilities?

Automatic Chemical Dosing in CF Tank

Deadline: 2020-05-05
Total Award: 3,00,000 INR
Open to: Everyone*

Can you devise a solution for automatic dosing of chemicals in CF tank for flocculation and clarification?

Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge

Deadline: 2020-05-12
Total Award: $100,000
Open to: Everyone*

Participate in a global creative ideas competition to improve outdoor thermal comfort in public spaces by mitigating the impact of the Urban Heat Island Effect in the city.

Individuals Taking Energy Action in Manufacturing

Deadline: 2020-05-15
Total Award: $75,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Have you implemented your energy savings idea into your business practice? Do you think your idea could stimulate innovation at other manufacturing facilities?

ASCE Innovation Contest

Deadline: 2020-05-17
Total Award: $5,000
Open to: High School Diploma*

What are your ideas to transform the way we approach, build and design infrastructure?

RA2 DREAM Challenge

Deadline: 2020-05-21
Total Award: $50,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you develop an algorithm to assess arthritis damage through radiographs?

Development of a Gradation System for Measuring Surface Shine of Galvanized Iron Wires

Deadline: 2020-05-22
Total Award: 3,00,000 INR
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for solutions to categorize GI wires according to its surface shine.

Enhancing Corrosion Resistance of Barbed Wire Bundles

Deadline: 2020-05-22
Total Award: 2,00,000 INR
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for an economical method of enhancing the corrosion life of barbed wires.

Real-time Detection of Lubrication Failure or Abnormalities in Carbide Drawing Dies

Deadline: 2020-05-22
Total Award: 4,00,000 INR
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for solutions that can monitor the condition of carbide dies in the wire drawing line and raise early alarms in case of abnormalities.

Recycling of Used Lubricant Powder

Deadline: 2020-05-22
Total Award: 5,00,000 INR
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for alternate uses of the used lubricant powder generated from wire drawing machines.

Measurement of Coating Thickness of Galvanized Iron Wires and Wire Products

Deadline: 2020-05-24
Total Award: 3,00,000 INR
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for low-cost handheld devices to accurately measure the zinc coating thickness of GI wires.

Network Detection of Adversarial Campaigns using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Deadline: 2020-05-29
Total Award: $500,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Seeking to automate the Security Operations Center using artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect advanced persistent threat campaign activity.

Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover

Deadline: 2020-05-29
Total Award: $30,000
Open to: Everyone*

Design an innovative obstacle avoidance sensor for NASA's mechanical clockwork rollover, enabling it to explore the daunting surface of Venus.

The Lottery Challenge

Deadline: 2020-06-01
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you raise awareness and impact social good by implementing positive changes to lotteries?

Non-Invasive Diagnostics for Global Health

Deadline: 2020-06-02
Total Award: $1,000,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Seeking concepts and prototypes of non-invasive, multiplexed diagnostic technologies for sickle cell disease, malaria and anemia, diseases with high global and public health impact.

Modular Food Furniture

Deadline: 2020-06-11
Total Award: €4,000
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for a concept for an innovative product dedicated to the catering industry.

Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge

Deadline: 2020-06-11
Total Award: € 200,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you develop a technology or tool that can help people living with spinal cord injury by estimating the impact of rehabilitation activities?

Good Jobs and Inclusive Entrepreneurship

Deadline: 2020-06-18
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

How can marginalized populations access and create good jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves?

Maternal and Newborn Health

Deadline: 2020-06-18
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

How can every woman, new mother, and newborn access the care they need to survive and thrive?

Learning for Girls and Women

Deadline: 2020-06-18
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

How can marginalized girls and young women access quality learning opportunities to succeed?

Sustainable Food Systems

Deadline: 2020-06-18
Total Award: $10,000
Open to: Everyone*

How can we produce and consume low-carbon, resilient, and nutritious food?

Low Impact Mining Challenge

Deadline: 2020-06-29
Total Award: $25,000
Open to: Everyone*

Seeking ideas for new mining approaches to reduce the footprint on the area mined and avoid the need for traditionally costly infrastructure

Inline Measurement of Process Parameters During Bronze Coating

Deadline: 2020-06-30
Total Award: INR 8,00,000
Open to: Everyone*

We are looking for a solution to autonomously monitor and adjust the process parameters during the bronze coating of bead wires.

The Gawler Challenge

Deadline: 2020-07-31
Total Award: $250,000
Open to: Everyone*

Can you find South Australia’s next big mineral deposit?

Dacor National Design Contest

Deadline: 2020-07-31
Total Award: $200,000
Open to: US and Canadian designers*

Innovative student and professional designers are invited to submit their unique ideas that conceptualise new ways kitchens can be designed.

Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research

Deadline: 2020-08-28
Total Award: $250,000
Open to: US citizens and entities*

Use your big data analysis capabilities to help 6.5 million American adults living with heart failure.

Early Warning for Epidemics

Deadline: 2020-09-01
Total Award: €5,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

The winner of this challenge will create a cost effective early warning system prototype that can forecast and monitor infectious illnesses and pathogens in the human population.

Nature Contest

Deadline: 2020-09-15
Total Award: $1,200
Open to: Everyone*

Nature Contest is the greatest contest of ideas inspired from nature. Individual participants can participate in three different ways. They can a. Visualize a design concept for nature gadget, b. Write down a revolutionary nature policy or c. Share portfolio of their previous work.

Innovation Contests and CHALLENGES

World's biggest and most popular list of Live Challenges Number of Live Challenges: 76 Prize Money Available: $61,111,701

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

Road Delineator Maintenance in the I-77 Express Lanes

Increasing the Coal Tar Flow Rate in Burners without Affecting the Refractories

Producing Glass Wool and Insulating Building Materials from Wind Turbine Blades

Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge

Preventing Liquor Store Thefts and Robberies

Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

Telco: What's next? Future products and services in the connected world

VR for Change Alcove Challenge

Plastics Challenge - Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic Packaging

Plastics Challenge - E-Waste

Plastics Challenge - Textiles and Microfibers

Mechanized Dressing System for Underground Coal Mine

Eco-Friendly Waste Converter

Outdoor Air Purifier

Plastics Challenge - Diverting End of Life Vehicle Plastics from Landfills

Separation of Sodalite from Alkali-leached Coal

International Policy Ideas Challenge 2020

BASF Partner Up Challenge

Energy Producing Window Coverings

Plastics Challenge - Recycled Plastic Ceiling Tiles

Future Oven Design

Innovations in Materials Science for a Transformative Menstrual Health and Hygiene Product

Improving Access to and Use of Safe and Appropriate Cesarean Section

Accelerating Discovery for Non-Hormonal Contraceptives

Lithium Battery Man Portable Hazard Containment Challenge

The Alternate Format Business Technology Challenge

Turning Pixels into Data: Imaging for Accessibility

2020 Radical Innovation Award

Fish Protection Prize

$100,000 for Start a SUD Startup Challenge

Identifying Protective Gene Combinations

Water Resource Recovery Prize

First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge

NCATS Rare Diseases are Not Rare! 2020 Challenge

Apps 4 Digital Peace

Innovative Designs for Accessibility

Automatic Chemical Dosing in CF Tank

Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge

Individuals Taking Energy Action in Manufacturing

ASCE Innovation Contest

RA2 DREAM Challenge

Development of a Gradation System for Measuring Surface Shine of Galvanized Iron Wires

Enhancing Corrosion Resistance of Barbed Wire Bundles

Real-time Detection of Lubrication Failure or Abnormalities in Carbide Drawing Dies

Recycling of Used Lubricant Powder

Measurement of Coating Thickness of Galvanized Iron Wires and Wire Products

Network Detection of Adversarial Campaigns using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover

The Lottery Challenge

Non-Invasive Diagnostics for Global Health

Modular Food Furniture

Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge

Good Jobs and Inclusive Entrepreneurship

Maternal and Newborn Health

Learning for Girls and Women

Sustainable Food Systems

Low Impact Mining Challenge

Inline Measurement of Process Parameters During Bronze Coating

The Gawler Challenge

Dacor National Design Contest

Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research

Early Warning for Epidemics

Nature Contest

Priority Health Innovation Challenge

Developing Predictive Biomarkers of SUDEP

CHARIoT Challenge - Advancing First Responder Communications

Digital Solutions to Support Care Transitions Challenge

Alzheimer's Germ Quest

Fuel from the Sun: Artificial Photosynthesis

Food Generation

Low-Cost Space Launch

EcoTox TARGET Challenge

DARPA Subterranean Challenge

CO2 Conversion

Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life Prize

Innovation Contests and

CHALLENGES

World's biggest and most popular list of Live Challenges
Number of Live Challenges: 76
Prize Money Available: $61,111,701