STARTS Prize 2026 for young African innovators (€ 30.000 prize) – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline:  March 4, 2026, 23:59 CET

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 STARTS Prize. The STARTS yearly competitors is again to award probably the most pioneering collaborations and ends in the sphere of creativity and innovation on the crossings of science and expertise with the humanities. 

Win 20.000 Euros and current your work on the Ars Electronica Festival 2026

Two Grand Prizes, every with €20,000 prize cash, are provided to honor modern tasks on the intersection of science, expertise and the humanities. The emphasis of each prizes lies on the inventive appropriation and employment of applied sciences in addition to the search for distinctive constellations of collaboration from the STARTS fields.

• Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration honors modern collaboration between business or expertise and the creative (and inventive) sectors that open up new avenues for innovation.
• Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration honors creative analysis and works whose adoption by the humanities has nice potential to affect or change the use, application, or notion of expertise.

Requirements

• Artists/inventive professionals or the researchers/firms concerned from all through the world; STARTS shouldn’t be restricted to residents of EU-member states.

Application Timeline:

• The submission course of for the STARTS Prize 2026 began on January 7, 2026 and can finish on March 4, 2026.
• The jury convenes from April 16, 2026 to April 19, 2026. All STARTS Prize 2026 winners will likely be notified by mid-May 2026 on the newest.

Prize Presentation

• At the Ars Electronica Festival on 9-13 September 2026 in Linz, Austria, and at varied exhibitions and occasions of the consortium companions worldwide.

For More Information:

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