Contests

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  Contest Funding: Big $ prizes will vary per contest

  Eligible Recipients: Everyone! Except government employees and Crown corporations

  Solution Readiness: Level: 6-7

Contests are a competitive means of finding innovative solutions and awarding prizes to the best solutions derived from the innovation community. Each contest focuses on one of the defence and security challenges identified by the program. Each contest is held independently; the number of winners, as well as the type and/or value of the prizes, will vary.

This year, we launched our first Contest, and it is still progressing!

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  The above pie charts shows the percentage of Round 1 Winners

  • Portable water management accounted for 22%
  • Solid and liquid waste management accounted for 20%
  • Energy generation and management accounted for 50%

Pop Up City

The “Pop up City” Contest is a multi-phased contest for innovators to propose and develop reliable, energy efficient, integrated and scalable energy, water and waste management systems for Relocatable Temporary Camps.

Round 1:

• 111 applications were received.
• 42 Round 1 winners each received a $10,000 prize and were invited to participate in Round 2 which included presenting their innovative waste, water, or energy management solution at an integration partnering event in March 2020.

Round 2:

Contestants have the opportunity to partner up to propose an integrated energy, water and waste management system. Up to 10 integrated proposals will be selected and each semi-finalist team will receive an additional $50,000 in prize money and a spot in Round 3.

Round 3:

Semi-finalist teams from Round 2 will get to showcase their technical savvy and presentation skills at a pitch event to be held in March 2021. Up to 3 finalist teams will be eligible for up to $1,500,000 for the development of their proposed prototype over an 18 month timeframe.

Round 4:

The final Round of Contest will test all the prototypes developed from the “Pop up City” finalist teams. A grand prize of $2,000,000 will be awarded in the Fall of 2022 to the prototype with the best overall performance!