Explore our challenge prizes
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This could be your opportunity to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
Challenge Works supports smart ideas and ingenious solutions, wherever they come from. We believe inventors can come from any background or sector, so we work to break down barriers, support long-term success and nurture innovation talent every step of the way.
We have worked with thousands of innovator teams and dozens of funders to find solutions to problems, draw attention to societal issues, and bring about real change.
Read on to find out more about our current and past portfolio of challenge prizes.
Explore our challenge prizes
Food Open Data Challenge
Using open data to help people eat more healthily and sustainably
Heritage and Culture Open Data Challenge
Using open data to engage more people in heritage and culture
Housing Open Data Challenge
Using open data to help people get the best out of renting.
Energy and Environment Open Data Challenge
Using open data to help communities be more energy efficient.
Education Open Data Challenge
Using open data to help parents make informed choices about their children’s education
Rapid Recovery Challenge – Job Stream
The Rapid Recovery Challenge Job Stream aimed to find, inspire and accelerate innovations relating to jobs that will support one million people across the UK.
Afri-Plastics Challenge: Accelerating Growth
Seeking scalable and sustainable solutions to prevent plastic waste from entering the marine environment.
Rapid Recovery Challenge – Finance Stream
The financial recovery stream focused on helping low-paid workers or those in insecure work, who were struggling financially to access much needed finances through a variety of means.
Water Breakthrough Challenge 2
Driving wide-scale transformational change in the water sector.
Smart Data for Consumers Prize
A £5m prize for digital products that use smart data to achieve significant reductions in loyalty penalties paid by vulnerable consumers.
Space Energy Prize idea
The Space Energy Prize seeks to identify a safe, scalable and reliable transmission of energy between two orbiting satellites launched from a UK spaceport.
Green Travel Infrastructure Prize
A £10m prize for the first team to demonstrate a reliable solution that can charge and run an electric bus fleet of at least 50 vehicles across a city for a month.
Challenge prizes
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