S+T+ARTS Prize Competition 2026 (€20,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: March 4, 2026

Applications are invited for the S+T+ARTS Prize Competition 2026. The S+T+ARTS yearly competitors is again to award essentially the most pioneering collaborations and leads to the sector of creativity and innovation on the crossings of science and know-how with the humanities. Since 2016, greater than 350 initiatives out of 18.900 submissions from 124 completely different nations have been honored and a complete of €400,000 in prize cash has been distributed within the STARTS Prize competitors.

Two Grand Prizes are supplied to honor progressive initiatives on the intersection of science, know-how and the humanities. The emphasis of each prizes lies on the inventive appropriation and employment of applied sciences in addition to the seek for distinctive constellations of collaboration from the STARTS fields.

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

Prizes

• The grand prizes every have a €20,000 prize cash.
• Winners might be prominently featured on the Ars Electronica Festival and different occasions of the consortium companions INOVA+, French Tech Grand Provence, Media Solutions Center Baden-Württemberg, HLRS High Performance Computer Center Stuttgart, Salzburg Festival, Sonar, T6Ecosystems, and Kustodie at TUD Dresden University of Technology.

Eligibility

• Open to artists/inventive professionals or the researchers/corporations concerned from all through the world; STARTS isn’t restricted to residents of EU-member states.
• They are searching for groundbreaking collaborations and initiatives pushed by each know-how and the humanities. Purely inventive or technologically pushed initiatives aren’t the main focus of this competitors.
• All types of inventive works and practices with a robust hyperlink to innovation in know-how, enterprise and/or society; moreover, STARTS isn’t restricted to a selected style resembling media artwork and digital artwork.
• All sorts of technological and scientific analysis and growth that has been impressed by artwork or includes artists as catalysts of novel pondering.
• The jury is wanting ahead to receiving submissions from a broad number of fields and disciplines. Among others, initiatives from the areas of recent media purposes, human pc interplay, machine studying, biotechnology, artwork & science, inexperienced applied sciences, materials analysis, good cities and citizen empowerment, robotics, quantum know-how and plenty of extra are very welcome to apply.

Criteria

• Quality of the inventive analysis and its potential affect on know-how.
• Quality and success of the collaboration between artwork and know-how.
• Quality and depth of the connection to innovation, schooling, social inclusion or sustainability.
• Quality and implementation of the European Dimension of the submitted mission.
• General standards resembling aesthetics, originality, convincing idea, innovation and the method and high quality of the presentation.

Application

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For extra data, go to STARTS Prize Competition.