Nemetschek Innovation Award 2026 (up to €200,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: August 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Nemetschek Innovation Award 2026. The Nemetschek Innovation Award is devoted to floor-breaking improvements in Artificial Intelligence for the Built World all through your entire lifecycle of constructed services.

It is funded by the Nemetschek Innovationsstiftung (NIS) (Nemetschek Innovation Foundation) and goals to acknowledge application-oriented improvements. The competitors process is managed and arranged by the Georg Nemetschek Institute at Technical University of Munich (TUM GNI). The submissions are assessed by a Special Award Panel consisting of worldwide referees who’re appointed by the President of TUM.

Candidates are invited to current software program purposes in pre-product stage for the evaluation, creation, building, operation, renovation and administration of buildings and civil infrastructures. Topics which can be notably eligible for consideration are primarily machine studying, clever interfaces, context-delicate uncertainty evaluation, data-enhanced determination making, and AI-supported course of automation.

Awards

• The first-place prize is €100,000
• The second-place prize is €60,000
• The third-place prize is €40,000

The first place is simply awarded for epoch-making improvements and isn’t essentially granted in every spherical of the Awards.

Eligibility

• Undergraduate college students, graduate college students and doctoral college students from universities worldwide can take part in the competitors.
• Participants have to be registered at a college or comparable establishment on the time of application (intention to submit deadline).
• The completion of a level, doctorate or PhD after admission to the competitors doesn’t have an effect on the correct to take part.
• It is inspired that groups of members apply – there is no such thing as a decrease or higher restrict on the group dimension. The group members have to share the prize cash amongst themselves – TUM GNI won’t choose on the share of people in the introduced answer.

Application

The “Declaration of Intention to Submit” have to be submitted by August 31, 2025 at 24:00 CEST in digital format through electronic mail to [email protected]. Delayed submissions won’t be thought of any additional.

The declaration should comprise the next paperwork (in PDF format): 

• Cover letter, signed by all group members
• Contact data, together with official electronic mail addresses of every group member at their college
• Proof of registration on the college, e.g. a duplicate of the registration certificates, for every group member
• CVs of all group members
• Maximum 5-web page sketch describing the deliberate submission 
  The description ought to spotlight the modern character of the deliberate submission. It ought to clearly specify its relation to Artificial Intelligence and to purposes for the Built World (structure, engineering, building, operation).
  The description can comprise textual content and figures. In also can embody references to supplementary materials, reminiscent of hyperlinks to publications, movies or code repositories. However, they won’t essentially be taken into consideration for deciding on eligibility.

For extra data, go to Nemetschek Innovation Award.