Prize competitions
Explore prize competitions and innovation challenges. This directory lists cash prizes, challenge programs and awards for solving a defined problem, from government agencies, foundations, corporates and challenge platforms, with the deadline, prize purse and entry rules on every listing.
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Building Envelope Innovation Prize - Secondary Glazing Systems
🇺🇸DOE BTO · United States
Pays cash prizes across three phases to teams that build cost-effective secondary glazing inserts upgrading commercial windows without a full replacement.
Buildner's Unbuilt Award 2026
Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational
Awards €100,000 total to architects and designers for unbuilt building concepts.
Caregiver AI Challenge Phase 1 — Track 1
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Funds United States teams designing AI tools that support caregivers through ACL's Caregiver AI Challenge.
Caregiver AI Challenge Phase 1 — Track 2
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Funds United States teams designing AI tools that strengthen the direct-care workforce through ACL's Caregiver AI Challenge.
CASSINI Challenges 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays EU space startups €100,000 each to turn Galileo, Copernicus or GOVSATCOM data into products.
CASSINI Challenges Prize Contest 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays a fixed €100,000 prize to each of 12 winning EU space-tech applicants.
Catalyst 2024
🇺🇸CTIA Foundation · United States
Pays early-stage social entrepreneurs building mobile-first solutions that address challenges facing American communities.
Challenge! K-Startup
🇰🇷KISED · South Korea
Supports early Korean startup teams through a competitive challenge route for commercialization and market entry readiness.
Climate Curve Prize: Methane
Climate Curve · United States
Awards $25,000 each to eight winners tackling methane emissions from food and waste systems.
Climate Tech Trailblazer Prize
🇨🇦Climate Solutions · Canada
Awards Canadian climate-tech startups $200,000 in non-dilutive prize funding without taking equity.
ClimateLaunchpad
Climate-KIC · Netherlands
Supports early-stage climate ventures through global competition, coaching, and investment readiness across all sectors.
ClimateLaunchpad 2022
Climate-KIC · European Union
Runs a global cleantech business-idea competition through national and regional finals, awarding up to €10,000 to the Global Grand Final winner.
Commercialization Competition
🇺🇸FuzeHub · United States
Awards up to $150,000 in cash paid out via a SAFE or convertible note to New York State manufacturing and technology companies that pitch how they'll take an existing prototype to market.
Community Champions for Disability Health Challenge: Phase 1
🇺🇸NICHD · United States
Awards $25,000 to community non-profits proposing ways to cut health disparities for disabled people.
Complement-ARIE Challenge
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Pays up to $50,000 each to 20 teams building human-based alternatives to animal testing.
Complement-ARIE NAMs Reduction to Practice Challenge
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Awards up to $7,000,000 in cash prizes to teams building lab-based alternatives to animal testing.
Complement-ARIE NAMs Reduction to Practice Challenge
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Pays teams up to $7 million in total cash prizes to build human-based lab methods that can complement or replace animal testing in biomedical research.
Connecting the Community for Maternal Health
🇺🇸NICHD · United States
Pays U.S. non-academic nonprofits up to $300,000 to build research capacity and run their own maternal health research project.
Connecting the Community for Maternal Health 2.0 (CCMH 2.0)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
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.
Construction Startup Competition
CEMEX Ventures · Mexico
Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox
DND Canada · Canada
Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.
Creating the World Competition
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Administers Hangzhou's Creating the World competition for overseas returnees and foreign nationals launching technology ventures.
Cross-Cultural Conversations on Climate Leadership EOI
Climate-KIC · Netherlands
Supports climate leadership travel and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs across regions.
D.E.S.I.G.N. for BioE3 Challenge
🇮🇳DBT · India
Pays India's top biotech concept entries ₹1 lakh each month, with grants to build them.