A roundup of active grant and prize programs open for submissions this season, spanning climate tech, global health, social impact, and design innovation.
EQT Foundation Science Grants: Critical Minerals for the Green Transition
EQT Foundation is awarding catalytic, non-dilutive grants to researchers developing deeptech solutions that reduce or eliminate the use of critical and strategic raw minerals in key climate technologies — including batteries, electric motors, photovoltaics, and electrolyzers. Focus areas include rare-earth-free magnets, earth-abundant solar and grid materials, and circular substitution through recycling.
Learn more →Future Health Challenge: Building Anticipatory Health Systems through Population Sensing
This challenge seeks innovations that shift health systems from reactive to anticipatory care using technology-powered sensing. Areas of interest include population risk forecasting, AI-powered disease surveillance, low-tech community-based sensing in underserved settings, and decision-support tools that turn fragmented health data into actionable forecasts.
Learn more →DRK Foundation Funding for Early-Stage Social Impact Organizations
DRK Foundation provides up to $300,000 in grant or investment capital over three years to early-stage (post-pilot, pre-scale) social and environmental impact organizations. Alongside capital, grantees receive deep hands-on board support valued at up to $500,000. DRK focuses on scalable, systems-thinking organizations operating in Africa, Europe, India, and the United States.
Learn more →iF Social Impact Prize 2026
The iF Social Impact Prize supports established projects that contribute to society through design and align with one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 1–15). Projects are evaluated on problem-solving, ethical standards, design relevance, effort, and beneficial experience. Applying is free of charge, and the same project may be submitted a maximum of two times.
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