[May 2025]
Unlock transformative funding opportunities through globally recognized awards and prizes. These prestigious competitions offer substantial financial backing to help you scale your projects, gain international recognition, and make a lasting impact in your field.
Submissions open for Green Future Innovation Challenge
Deadline: 25 July 2025
The Green Future Innovation Challenge (GFIC), co-organized by Vertex Ventures China and Temasek Foundation, is a climate tech competition that seeks innovative technological solutions from across the globe to address key sustainability challenges…[more]
Call for Nominations: Junkosha Technology Innovator of the Year Award
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Nominations are now open for the Junkosha Technology Innovator of the Year Award, an international program dedicated to recognizing groundbreaking work in interventional medical procedures and Microwave/mmWave technologies…[more]
Forecasting the Future: A Modern Economics Challenge
Deadline: 1 August 2025
The Forecasting the Future: A Modern Economics Challenge—invites you to dive into the evolving global economy and predict how the next era of Modern Mercantilism will transform trade, policy, and power on the global stage…[more]
Submissions open for Milken-Motsepe Prize in AI and Manufacturing
Deadline: 31 July 2025
The prize calls on established companies in Africa revolutionizing manufacturing value chains in emerging markets by leveraging AI and other emerging technologies…[more]
The Kenneth C. Frazier Award for Maternal Health Equity
Deadline: 30-Jun-25
The MSD for Mothers is now inviting nominations for the annual Kenneth C. Frazier Award for Maternal Health Equity…[more]
Nominations open for the Holberg Prize for outstanding contributions to Research
Deadline: 15 June 2025
The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology…[more]
Nominations open for the Brain Prize by Lundbeck Foundation
Deadline: 1 September 2025
The Lundbeck Foundation is delighted to invite nominations for the Brain Prize that recognises and celebrates highly original and groundbreaking advances in any area of brain research, from basic neuroscience to applied clinical research…[more]
Nominations open for Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
Deadline: 1 August 2025
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is pleased to announce nominations for the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize to raise awareness of basic and applied biotechnology research…[more]
UNESCO-Uzbekistan Beruniy Prize for Scientific Research on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Deadline: 30-Jun-25
The UNESCO-Uzbekistan Beruniy Prize for Scientific Research on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to promote and honour excellence in the field of ethics of AI, multidisciplinary research and scientific cooperation…[more]
Call for Nominations: Mental Health Award
Deadline: 22 July 2025
The Wellcome Trust’s Mental Health Award is looking to fund projects that draw on the potential of longitudinal data to drive innovation in early identification of anxiety, depression and/or psychosis…[more]
Nominations open for Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards 2025
Deadline: 15-Jun-25
The Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards (SATAs) are the annual celebration of three sisters, as representatives of their congregations and networks, who have demonstrated exceptional courage, creativity, collaboration and achievement in the protection of their communities from human trafficking…[more]
Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists
Deadline: 15 July 2025
The Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and SciLifeLab, joined forces in creating the Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists to recognize excellence amongst young researchers from around the world…[more]
Call for Nominations: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Deadline: 27 June 2025
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation seeks nominations from the public that celebrate a wide variety of engineering innovations across all sectors of the profession, and a breadth of nominators from all corners of the globe…[more]
Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants 2025
Deadline: 22-Jun-25
The Michelson Prizes are awarded annually to support early-career investigators working to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases…[more]
Entries open for Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water
Deadline: 31 December 2025
Nominations are now open for the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, an international award focusing on water-related scientific innovation and judged by leading scientists from around the world…[more]
Submit your Expression of Interest for Cancer Grand Challenges
Deadline: 18 June 2025
Submissions open for the Cancer Grand Challenges, an initiative to support teams involving investigators from institutions across the globe and from different disciplines…[more]
Call for Nominations: Novonesis Biotechnology Prize
Deadline: 1 August 2025
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is pleased to announce the annual call for nominations for The Novonesis Biotechnology Prize…[more]
Nominations open for Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
Deadline: 30 June 2025
The BBVA Foundation is thrilled to invite nominations for its Frontiers of Knowledge Awards to honor fundamental disciplinary or interdisciplinary advances across a broad expanse of the knowledge map of the 21st century…[more]
Entries open for James Dyson Award for Problem Solvers
Deadline: 16 July 2025
The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers…[more]
Nominations open for International Awards in Life and Environmental Sciences
Deadline: 4 July 2025
The Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO are thrilled to invite you to nominate eminent women scientists for the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Awards…[more]
EMEA Impact Through Innovation Awards 2025
Deadline: 7-Jul-25
The EMEA Impact Through Innovation Awards program aims to seed-fund innovative solutions that address health, mental wellbeing or educational outcomes for children and young people…[more]
Sustainable Gender Equality Champions Prize 2025
Deadline: 18-Jun-25
Applications are now open for the Sustainable Gender Equality Champions Prize focused on organisations that can demonstrate a significant and sustained record of activity and a high level of achievement through the implementation of their Gender Equality Plan…[more]
Nominations open for Newcomer Gender Equality Champions Prize
Deadline: 18-Jun-25
The European Commission (EC) is accepting nominations for the Newcomer Gender Equality Champions Prize…[more]
Call for Entries: Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the Breakthrough Junior Challenge…[more]
Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP) 2025
Deadline: 18-Jun-2025
The Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project is a competitive grant programme under the umbrella of the Global Development Awards Competition, administered by GDN, funded under the Policy and Human Resources Development Fund (PHRD) trust fund managed by the World Bank, and generously supported by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan…[more]
Nominations open for Wellcome Discovery Awards 2025
Deadline: 29-Jul-25
Nominations are now open for the Wellcome Discovery Awards to provide funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing…[more]
Call for Applications: Zayed Sustainability Prize
Deadline: 23-Jun-2025
Applications are now open for the Zayed Sustainability Prize that recognises and rewards small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organisations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainable solutions…[more]
Zendesk Foundation’s Tech for Good Impact Awards 2025
Deadline: 15-Aug-25
The Zendesk Foundation is inviting nonprofit organizations to apply for the Tech for Good Impact Awards…[more]
Now Open: SA Tech Challenge 2025 (South Africa)
Deadline: 30 June 2025
The SA Tech Challenge is now open for applications to empower micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by providing a platform to showcase innovative solutions…[more]
Call for Nominations: Expo Innovation Award (Japan)
Deadline: 23-Jun-25
Applications are now open for the inaugural edition of the Expo Innovation Award, jointly launched by the Bureau International des Expositions and the Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (GISPRI) on the occasion of Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai…[more]
Nominations open for EIT Red Kalyna Award (Ukraine)
Deadline: 1 September 2025
The EIT Red Kalyna Award is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Community, dedicated to recognising exceptional Ukrainian women entrepreneurs, researchers and leaders who have developed innovative products and services or transformed their businesses through innovation…[more]
Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize in the United States
Deadline: 13-Jun-25
The Verizon and MIT Solve are excited to announce the Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize…[more]
