Our Challenge Prizes

The Good Start Challenge is a global challenge to accelerate innovation to promote the wellbeing of parents of children aged 0-6 years

We are seeking ideas for the UK’s next space innovation challenge prize. Ideas that are technically tough, exciting, and unusual – problems with no obvious solution that could attract brilliant, diverse minds from any sector.

Tackling health inequalities: the Mayor’s big ideas challenge is a £1 million challenge funded by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to accelerate innovative solutions, products, or services to overcome health inequalities among communities in the region.

The Smart Data Challenge Prize is a £600,000 challenge prize funded by the Department for Business & Trade, designed to identify and develop Smart Data use cases across the economy.

The Longitude Prize on ALS will open up data and utilise AI to identify and validate targets for transformative drug discovery.

The second Manchester Prize will be awarded to the most innovative and impactful AI solution enabling the UK to accelerate progress towards a net zero energy system.