Innovation Award

The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards is the competition for research based innovative ideas and impactful innovations. The event is organised by IXA for researchers and students in Amsterdam. Take your research based idea outside of your university and into the world! The next edition of the AmSIA will open in the beginning of the 2025 with the final event in June.

Photography by Caren Huygelen: AmSIA winners, recipients and jury members in 2023

Open to all research-based ideas
The Innovation Award is open to ideas from all research disciplines: from natural sciences and engineering, to the red and green life sciences, to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Three prizes of each € 10.000 will be awarded to the best idea within the categories of: Society, Health, and Environment & Climate. The categories are based on the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Benefit of personal feedback
Each edition of the AmSIA, participants get professional feedback on both their idea/application and its possible feasibility. Prospective participants can take part in a guided workshop that helps them to improve their application. Selected finalists will get a promotional video and pitch training. They will share their innovation with the public during the awards finale and via media coverage.

For whom
The competition is open to researchers, PhD’s, staff and students from all Amsterdam universities, universities of applied sciences, university medical centers and research insitutes. It is open to ideas from all research disciplines and areas.

Find inspiration within the diversity of topics and research areas
The Amsterdam Science & Innovation award is an inclusive competition. Find inspiring examples amongst past winners and former editions of AmSIA.

Questions?
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at: info@ixa.nl.