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Mobile Games Innovation Challenge
Nokia
Directed to companies and professionals dedicated to the development of videogames in order for them to propose new innovative creations for their mobile platform N-Gage
Prize funding of € 70,000 Until 20 august 2008. Winners will announced 29th october 2008
Google Lunar X PRIZE Google Lunar X Prize
International competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth
Winner $30 million. Second team $5million Ending date not specified
Nespresso Nespresso Design contest for accessories for coffe, capsules, coffe machines, etc. 26.000 euros, having your design featured in the 2008 Milan Salone del Mobile, special articles, etc. Ending date not specified
Starbucksidea Starbucks
You know better than anyone else what you want from Starbucks. So tell us. What's your Starbucks Idea? Revolutionary or simple—we want to hear it. Share your ideas, tell us what you think of other people's ideas and join the discussion
Improving Starbucks and see your idea working Ending date not specified
Ron Havana Club
Soy tu Guru
Havana Club Create a "Guru" and try to get as many followers as you can in order to win a great party. There are also many games to win points Great party for two hundred people organised by Havana Club. Mp3 and t-shirts will be given to finalist Until 18 july 2008

International “Water and Film” Event

RIEC-IWFE

 

Films about “Water, People and Sustainable Development
In Istambul in March 2009, an International Jury of experts will designate the best films ,clips, documentaries… related to water.

$3.000 Less than 90 seconds» Competition

$5.000 Other categories

$2.000 Special prizes

Entries will be accepted until 1 September 2008.

INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL

Directed to all independent developers wanting them to show the last innovations on the different categories and encourage the experimentalism

$50,000 in prizes, including awards for Innovation, Excellence in Design, and the coveted $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize.

Submissions will be accepted until November 2008 and finalists will be announced by 5 January 2009.

FT Climate Change Challenge


The aim of this competition is to track down the most innovative solutions to the problems caused by climate change and help them attract the funding they need to make a real impact.

$75,000 prize money

The deadline is 30th January 2009.

SIMagine 2009

SIMagine research engineers and start-up entrepreneurs to develop tomorrows’ wireless applications using SIM cards based on Java Card™ technology.

Total prizes woth over €60.000.

Deadline October 10,2008

Nikon Photo Contest International

Provides an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich photographic culture professionals and amateurs alike.

Nikon imaging products.

Deadline from September 1 to November 30,2008.

Open Architecture Challenge

Brings public attention to inequities in the built environment affecting the health, prosperity and well being of under-served
communities. In 2009 the Open Architecture Challenge will focus on the issue of portable classrooms.

Funding to construct a prototype of the portable school you design.

Registration Deadline: January 2009

Submission Deadline: May 2009

The Saatchi&Saatchi Awards
For World Changing Ideas

All kind of persons may participate in this contest of ideas, from professors to professionals, and also students; the role of the participant is not decisive, but the idea each one is able to generate 100.000 usd Half of the prize is awarded to the winner in cash, while the other half is paid in consultancy services for the development of the ideas. Ending date not specified
The netflix prize The netflix prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences. $1,000,000 Ending date October 2, 2011
Stiller Center Prize This prize is awarded anually to a person or group who have a terrific idea based on science that they are comitted to commercializing. The prize provides cash, laboratories and other resources. Up to $100.000 including a $20.000 cash award. Ending date not specified
Braun Prize 2009 This internationally recognised design competition is open to young industrial designers who are still studying or who have graduated within the last two years. The total prize money amounts to EUR 36,000. The other finalists will each receive a prize of EUR 5,000.
Ending date January 31,2009

Extraordinary Every Day Travel Contest 2008

 

Open to fashion designers, architects, designers and creative people in general, of all ages and nationalities.The competition wants you to design extraordinary objects, elements and accessories that can be used, transported and utilized during those everyday activities which take place on a journey.

Prize not specified

Deadline for entries and delivery of works31 October 2008, 6pm

Award ceremony Paris, January 2009

Create the Future Design Contest

Presented by NASA Tech Briefs and SolidWorks


In its seventh year, the contest celebrates entrants' abilities to explore new ways to design the, as yet, unimagined. Contest entrants have six categories to choose. A panel of expert judges will evaluate entries based on innovation, marketability, manufacturability, and cost effectiveness.

Prize: $20,000, other great prizes.

Submissions: Oct. 17, 2008