Prize competitions

Awards cash prizes and global exposure to digital-health startups pitching at Germany's MEDICA trade fair.

Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.

Pays up to $50,000 to solvers who invent a plastic-free, compostable cold-cup material.

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

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Funds a £6.25 million challenge prize for innovations that improve snakebite outcomes worldwide.

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Pays India's top biotech concept entries ₹1 lakh each month, with grants to build them.

Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.

Splits a €20,000 prize among three Portuguese startups, plus a spot in the global final.

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Awards a $3.1 million prize purse across four phases to help U.S. nonprofits and Tribes build the research capacity to lead maternal health research in maternity care deserts.

Awards EUR 50,000 to one scientist recognised for advancing clinical development of products for poverty-related diseases in Africa.

Awards EUR 20,000 to a woman scientist recognised for global-health research and mentorship in sub-Saharan Africa.

Awards EUR 50,000 to a research team recognised for South-North global-health partnerships on poverty-related diseases.

Awards EUR 15,000 to a male mid-career scientist based in the EU or an associated country for global-health leadership.

Awards EUR 15,000 to a male mid-career scientist based in sub-Saharan Africa for global-health leadership.

Awards EUR 15,000 to a woman mid-career scientist based in the EU or an associated country for global-health leadership.

Awards EUR 15,000 to a woman mid-career scientist based in sub-Saharan Africa for global-health leadership.

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Awards SaaS startups a minimum $50,000 in non-dilutive funding plus three months of hands-on support in Arizona.

Awards up to €5,000 and investor access to deep-tech startups that make its finals.

Pays up to $800,000 in cash prizes to water-innovation solvers worldwide.

Offers ₹9,00,000 in PhD sponsorships, internships and cash rewards to chemistry and coatings researchers.

Pays student teams in India up to ₹20,00,000 to build working energy and sustainability prototypes at a national hackathon.