Deadline: 17 April 2025
The VinFuture Prize with its VinFuture Prize Nomination Program awards and honor outstanding inventors and researchers from universities, academies, research labs around the globe, as well as inventors in a professional research environment.
Types of Awards
- VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators from Developing Countries: Awarded only to researchers or innovators working in a developing country organization.
- VinFuture Special Prize for Women Innovators: Awarded only to women researchers or innovators, with no restriction on nationality, age, social status, or economic background of the nominees.
- VinFuture Special Prize for Nominators with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields: “Emerging field” is any field that is non-traditional and its researchers may come from different disciplines.
Prize Information
- And three additional Special Prizes of US$ 500,000 each with a focus on promoting diversity, equity, and new fields of study will also be awarded annually to:
- Innovator(s) from Developing Countries;
- Women Innovator(s);
- Innovator(s) with Outstanding Achievements in Emerging Fields.
Eligibility Criteria
- There should be clear evidence, or potential, for an end-product or service based on the solution, which has an everyday practical application;
- Solutions should have already benefited millions of people in the past 10 years for the Grand Prize, or have the potential to benefit millions of people in the next 10 years for the Special Prizes;
- Solutions should be aligned with one or more of the United Nation’s SDGs;
- Solutions must be scientifically proven (i.e., there should be clear evidence of passing relevant scientific trials, and in the case of research, it must be empirically proven or widely reviewed);
- Open to researchers or inventors who were involved in developing the underlying solutions, and not entrepreneurs or corporates who helped in commercialization/diffusion of the technology;
- End-products of the research should benefit people globally, including those from developing and less developed countries, as well as lower-income and disadvantaged communities;
- Open to individuals or teams of researchers/inventors;
- Preferences are considered for nominees in the active stages of their careers;
- Same individual/team can be nominated for one or more of the VinFuture Special Prizes if eligible;
- Research/Solution/Invention can be underpinned in any discipline of science, engineering, or technology, including potentially multi-disciplinary approaches.
For more information, visit VinFuture Prize.