Contests

Application Deadline: September 9th, 2019 Share a glimpse into your day-to-day life as a researcher with the MAXQDA community The fourth-annual MAXQDA Photo Contest is here! Hundreds of researchers from …

Application Deadline: September 20, 2019, 2pm PST. Developer Circles is kicking off the third annual Developer Circles Community Challenge. Our goal is to bring together developers from across the globe …

Application Deadline: Sunday 25th of August 2019 00:00 The African Union Commission, through the Department of Social Affairs, is developing a Continental Initiative aiming at eliminating Female Genital Mutilation in …

Application Deadline: Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:59 PM EST As the World Bank endeavors to become a global knowledge bank, there is a constant need to innovate and generate fresh …

Application Deadline: September 23rd, 2019 Too often, visuals in the cybersecurity space reflect surface level understanding influenced by sensationalist media. We see pictures of locks, white men in hoodies, or …

Application Deadline: Friday August 23rd, 2019. The 2019 Union Bank edTech Challenge is the third edition of the annual Innovation Challenge series and aims to discover, showcase and support innovative, …

Application Deadline: 30th of September 2019 The 5th annual online video competition “Atoms for Africa” is dedicated to finding solutions for sustainable economic and social development in Africa through the …

Application Deadline: 15th August 2019 The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), in collaboration with Futbol Club Barcelona, presents the 1st UNWTO Sports Tourism Start-up Competition. Target audience The purpose of this …

Application Deadline: October 15, 2019 Photography 4 Humanity is an international initiative that calls on photographers around the world to bring to life the power of human rights through their images. …

Application Deadline: September 13th 2019 Pitch@Palace Global is the global platform for Entrepreneurs from markets across the world to access Mentors and Advisers, Distribution Systems and Supply Chains, Connections and …

Application Deadline: Varying by Country This year, Reckitt Benckiser (RB) Global Challenge is getting bigger and better than ever before. The competition will intensify with top schools battling it out …

Application Deadline: August 2nd 2019 The 23rd session of the General Assembly will feature the 4th edition of the UNWTO Tourism Video Competition. The importance of multimedia for tourism communications …

Application Deadline: August 15th 2019 The Global Development Network (GDN) is hosting its 19th global development conference on the 23-25 October 2019, to facilitate the research-policy interface in pursuit of …

The Elsevier Foundation-ISC3 Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge seeks to stimulate innovative chemistry research that helps the environment and low-resource communities in emerging and developing countries. The Elsevier Foundation-ISC3 Green & …

Application Deadline: 27th September 2019.  Are you an innovator with a passion to help improve the efficient delivery of aid? Whether you are a design agency, engineering company or individual, the …

Application Deadline: July 31st 2019 THE ECONOMIST’s Open Future initiative was begun last year to make the case for political, economic and social freedoms at a time when these values …

Application Deadline: August 2nd 2019 The 20 best startups from Accra will be invited for a training delivered by our own Seedstars team as well as local & regional mentors! …

Application Deadline: August 31, 2019 If you are 18 and over, passionate about road safety, and carrying out great work to make Africa’s roads safer, we want to hear your …

Application Deadline: Monday, 2 September 2019 MbeleNaBiz seeks to create jobs and increase income for young men and women. The Government of Kenya recognises the need for job creation to …

Application Deadline: August 6th 2019 This is your chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Malaysia and be personally mentored by award-winning filmmaker Jenny Nichols. You could be capturing staggering …

Lockheed Martin and DRL are challenging teams to develop an AI-enabled framework, powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for AI at the edge, that can navigate a fully autonomous drone …

Application Deadline: June 27, 2019 KST World Water Challenge is an international contest for water solutions. As a follow up activity of the 7th World Water Forum in 2015, it …

Application Deadline : July 24, 2019 The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in partnership with the National Universities Commission (NUC) is pleased to announce the theme for the Nigerian Economic …

Leading development finance institutions (DFIs)including FinDev Canada, CDC Group(CDC)of the United Kingdom,Proparco of France and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) of the United States along with the Mastercard Foundation,announced …

Application Deadline: 31 July 2019. To commemorate these “triple anniversaries,” the inaugural UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival will be held in Florence 25 – 27 October 2019. The festival will showcase …

Application Deadline: Wednesday 31 July 2019. Do you want to open your own business, but don’t know where to start? Are you struggling to get your business off the ground? Do …

Application Deadline: July 28th 2019 The Global Youth Video Competition is co-organized by the GEF-UNDP Small Grants Programme, and the secretariats of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the …

Application Deadline: January 14, 2020 at 13.00 (GMT) The world’s leading awards for artists working in contemporary photography Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the internationally acclaimed Sony World Photography …

Application Deadline: September 13th 2019 The Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge is a worldwide renowned science & technology startup competition designed specifically to address the needs of deep tech entrepreneurs across several different …

Application Deadline: July 21st 2019 Convinced that collective intelligence and gamification are great tools for innovation, Automation Anywhere pioneered Bot Games. Bot Games gathers developers, project managers, business process enthusiasts, …

Application Deadline: August 30th 2019 New methods of mobility (electric cars, scooters, etc.) are emerging in our cities and our countryside alongside with the need to protect the environment while …

Application Deadline: June 30th 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge offers the opportunity for the bright minded companies to propose the best-in-class products and solutions within the Industrial Automation domain to international …

Application Deadline: December 31st 2019 UNHCR and Addis Ababa University’s Centre for Human Rights (CHR-AAU) invite African university students at the graduate (Masters or Doctoral)level to submit research essays on …

Application Deadline: July 28th 2019 From 24 May to 28 July 2019, young people from around the world can showcase their actions to combat climate change by submitting a video to the …

Application Deadline: May 31st 2019 There is a new wave of youth activism and it is going to change the world forever! UNFPA and AfriYAN Ghana believe in this new …

Application Deadline: 31ST JANUARY 2020 The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) is engaging young legal minds in generating innovative ideas on issues of law reform. As from 2019, the …

Application Deadline: 2nd September, 2019 (GMT 0) Samsung Engineering jointly with UN environment would like to launch “The 12th Eco-generation Environmental Essay Competition” inviting youth all over the world to …

Application Deadline: Friday, 6 September 2019, at 11:59 p.m., Vienna Time (CET) Students and professionals below the age of 35 can now submit entries to the IAEA’s 2020 International Essay …

Application Deadline: June 17, 2019 Shelter Tech Kenya, a first of its kind in Africa, is a six-month milestone-based accelerator program supporting early stage businesses and scale-ups in the affordable …