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.
Showing 241-264 of 458 grants
DAC Commercial CDR Purchase Pilot Prize
🇺🇸FECM · United States
Pays teams up to $35 million in cash for delivering commercial-scale carbon removal credits.
DAC Pilot Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays U.S.-based teams up to $52.5 million in cash awards to design, build and operate first-of-a-kind direct air capture pilot plants.
DAC Pre-Commercial EPIC Prize
🇺🇸FECM · United States
Pays incubator organizations up to $750,000 to build support programs for DAC entrepreneurs.
DDWS Innovation Challenge 2025-26
🇮🇳DDWS · India
Pays up to INR 3 lakh for rural water-testing and sanitation innovations.
Deep Tech CEE Challenge 2026
🇵🇱Deep Tech Summit · Poland
Awards up to €5,000 and investor access to deep-tech startups that make its finals.
DeepTech Bharat Hackathon
🇮🇳DPIIT · India
Awards ₹1.25 lakh across 5 winning deep-tech ideas plus mentoring and incubation support.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.
Digital Innovation in Food Processing Award
WFF · Italy
Pays at least $7,500 to startups making food processing more sustainable and efficient.
Digitizing Utilities Prize
🇺🇸DOE OE · United States
Pays $75,000 per team to interdisciplinary developers solving U.S. utilities' data problems.
Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 3: Resilient Grid Innovation
🇺🇸DOE OE · United States
Pays interdisciplinary software and data teams up to $150,000 each to help U.S. electric utilities modernize their data systems and grid analytics.
DOE Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize — Phase 1: Design
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds teams designing cost-effective industrial energy storage concepts through a DOE prize competition for thermal and electric storage at industrial scale.
DPCC Innovation Challenge for Air Pollution Reduction
🇮🇳DPCC · India
Pays up to INR 50 lakh for tested air-pollution-reduction technology in Delhi.
Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 50,000 to one scientist recognised for advancing clinical development of products for poverty-related diseases in Africa.
Dream Biology Award
IOCB Prague · Czechia
Pays a €10,000 cash prize to an early-career biologist with a bold research vision.
Drone in a Box Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.
Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.
E-SCRAP Prize
🇺🇸AMMTO · United States
Pays U.S. entrepreneurs up to $800,000 per team, across three phases, to build cheaper ways of recovering critical materials from electronic scrap.
EIT Food Education Start-up Award
EIT Food · European Union
Pays up to 10 startups €4,000 each if they came out of an EIT Food Education programme.
EIT Jumpstarter (EIT Health)
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Supports pre acceleration programme with prizes and mentorship for early stage healthcare innovators across Europe.
EIT Manufacturing BoostUp! 2022
🇪🇺EIT Manufacturing · European Union
Awards €20,000 cash prizes to startups already piloted with big manufacturing corporates.
EIT Raw Materials Business Idea Competition
🇪🇺EIT RawMaterials · European Union
Awards up to €10,000 for winning raw-materials business ideas from individuals and startups.
EIT Women Leadership Award
🇪🇺EIT · European Union
Awards EUR50,000 to a top woman leader from the EIT Community, plus EUR30,000 and EUR20,000 to two runners-up.
Energy Storage Innovations Prize — Round 2
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Pays US energy-storage innovators up to $50,000 cash for niche-market storage solutions.