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 289-312 of 460 grants
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.
Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2
🇺🇸DOE OE · United States
Pays up to $50,000 to energy-storage innovators solving unconventional grid use cases.
EPIC Innovation Clusters Award
🇺🇸DOE OTC · United States
Helps research teams and institutions for EPIC Innovation Clusters Award in energy systems and climate technology.
EPIC Round 3
🇺🇸DOE OTC · United States
Pays U.S. energy incubators and accelerators cash prizes and multi-year cooperative agreements for building strong support programs for energy startups.
ERC Public Engagement with Research Award
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.
ESD Okayama Award 2026
Okayama City · Japan
Awards $3,000 to one or two Education for Sustainable Development projects that any organization worldwide has run for at least three years.
European Health Catapult Competition
EIT Health · European Union
Awards a €135,000 package of prizes and training to Medtech, Biotech and Digital health startups.
European Innovation Procurement Awards
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Awards public and private buyers up to EUR 75,000 for procurement practices and strategies that drive innovation uptake across the EU.
European Prize for Humanitarian Innovation (InnovAid)
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Awarded EUR 250,000 to the humanitarian organisation, social enterprise or company with the most effective technology for delivering aid to vulnerable people.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Rising Innovators category
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women under 35 who have founded breakthrough European innovation companies.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Innovators category
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 220,000 prize to women founders of breakthrough European innovations, with no age limit.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Leadership category (EIT)
🇪🇺EIT · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women founders with a direct link to the EIT Community who lead breakthrough European innovations.
European Social Innovation Competition
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Awards up to EUR 75,000 to early-stage social-innovation projects that tackle a different societal challenge each year.
Feeder of the Future Prize
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Pays US grid innovators up to $8,000 for next-generation electric feeder designs.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led food-security startups at least $7,500, plus a shot at $500,000 more.
Fish Protection Prize
🇺🇸DOE WPTO · United States
Awards up to $700,000 in cash and vouchers for fish-exclusion technology at water diversions.
Framing the Future: Industrial Technologies Photo Contest
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Pays cash prizes for photos documenting U.S. industrial decarbonization technology and people.
Future Health Challenge: Building Anticipatory Health Systems through Population Sensing
Future Health · United Arab Emirates
Awards up to $300,000 in prize funding to for-profit, non-profit or hybrid teams building technology-enabled population-sensing solutions that shift health systems from reactive care toward predictive, anticipatory models.