Innovation challenges
Put a prize pool behind a problem and watch who answers.
Companies, foundations and institutions sponsor themed challenges. Inovio designs, promotes, moderates and reports on them — entry is always free for inventors.
Current challenges
No active challenges yet.
Sponsorship packages
Sponsors pay Inovio to organise, promote and safeguard the challenge. Prize money goes to the inventors.
Sponsored Challenge
from €25,000
- Challenge design & eligibility rules
- Dedicated challenge page
- Promotion across Inovio discovery surfaces
- Submission handling & safeguarding review
- Shortlist pack for your judging panel
Flagship Challenge
from €75,000
- Everything in Sponsored Challenge
- Multi-region campaign & editorial coverage
- Homepage & Future 100 placement
- Mentor programme for finalists
- Awards moment & post-challenge impact report
Programme Partnership
Custom
- Multi-year challenge series
- Sector-wide innovation reporting
- University & institution co-branding
- Talent pipeline into your R&D teams
- Custom data and reporting agreement
Sponsored visibility, honestly labelled
Organisations can buy placements. Nobody can buy relevance.
- Sponsored placements are always visibly labelled “Sponsored”.
- Sponsorship never changes search relevance, ranking order or the Future 100.
- Sponsored slots are separate units — they never replace or displace an organic result.
- Verification badges can never be bought, upgraded or influenced by spend.
- Sponsored content is reviewed against the same safeguarding rules as any listing.
- Projects by creators under 18 cannot be sponsored by third parties without verified guardian consent.
Challenges award prizes, grants and support — never securities, equity or investment. Entry is free and inventors retain all rights in their work.