Big Ideas @ Berkeley encourages students with innovative ideas to browse the following list of innovation competitions offered by the University and off-campus organizations.
This competition award prize money to the proposals that propose the most innovative ideas to tackle barriers to well being for underserved communities.
This competition award prize money to the proposals that propose the most innovative ideas to tackle barriers to well being for underserved communities.
Comprised of three self-contained competitions, this challenge encourages innovators to come up with unique solutions, products and ideas in a number of different categories.
Intel Innovators platform on Facebook provides opportunity to win $100,000 in seed funding. Ideas are game-changing businesses or concepts powered by technology. Submissions begin November 7, 2011. The program starts again at the beginning of each month.
Sustainable Vision grants fund educational programs in which technologies are created and commercialized to benefit people living in poverty. Grantees have access to funding and rigorous venture development support. Award amounts: $10,000 to $50,000
This competition challenges participants to use one or more freely available World Bank datasets to create software applications (for any platform) that help raise awareness or create progress towards one or more of the Millenium Development Goals.
In an effort to save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated lives, this competition invites participants to submit plans for an ultra-low-footprint 420sf apartment.
Practitioners and students in the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, product design and graphic design are invited to submit their design ideas to this competition.
This competition seeks to address the lack of sanitation coverage in rural India (and elsewhere) by innovating to create possible 'designs' to fit diverse environmental and social-economic conditions, water needs and local availability of materials. The innovation can take the form of a novel design and/or novel choice of materials used and/or a new process and/or any other component.
The Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution, has launched a prize competition to identify new and innovative thinking about policies to create jobs in the United States and enhance productivity.
An initiative seeking innovations from VA employees, academia, and the private sector that could enhance the efficacy of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
The goal of the LAUNCH: Energy Challenge is to identify 10 “game changing” innovations that have the potential to transform current energy systems, and help support a more sustainable future. Innovations selected will receive networking and mentoring support from influential business and government leaders.
Ashoka Changemakers, with the support of Google, is seeking innovations in "Citizen Media," to help boost media access and participation around the world.
Ashoka’s Changemakers and Boehringer Ingelheim are seeking innovative solutions worldwide that sustainably increase individual, family, and community well-being.
A competition that features business plans with the greatest potential for a positive impact on society through the commercialization of new and truly innovative technologies.
Foster School of Business, University of Washington
GSEC invites students around the world – across disciplines and levels of study to – to submit innovative business solutions to poverty in developing countries. Compete for $30,000 in monetary prizes, including global health and ICT prizes!
The Unreasonable Institute is a mentorship-driven program that arms for-profit enterprises creating solutions to the world's biggest social and environmental problems with the mentorship, capital, and networks they need to do so.
Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement
This summit at Northwestern University allows student teams from across the country to come together with community development projects or social entrepreneurship ventures they wish to expand upon. The summit is April 8-15, 2012 and consists of team workshops, networking and mentors.
The Wastewater Prize is Imagine H2O's latest competition geared towards inspiring innovation in water efficiency technologies and techniques. This contest is specifically asking for proposals that involve recycling wastewater.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, William and Flora Hewitt Foundation
Awards $25,000 to the best business plan that leverages openly licensed content to change the paradigm around the production, delivery, sharing, and experience of learning.
The Contest seeks to educate students in the process of creating and evaluating new business ventures. There are two tracks of this competition, the business venture track and the social venture track. Each team must include at least one student from Harvard.
