Deadline: January 15, 2016 | Apply here
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Eligibility: Global Undergraduate and Graduate level students
Prize: €100,000
Location: Paris, France
Valeo is a global automobile equipment and tech company that engineers technologies and systems for the car of the future. Innovation is in Valeo’s DNA, and Valeo is currently breaking ground in self-driving car technologies and technologies that reduce CO2 emissions.
The Valeo Innovation Challenge is back! Do you have an idea for an innovation that could transform the car of the future? Enter your creative idea for a better car and get an opportunity to make automotive history – and a chance to win €100,000!
The Valeo Innovation Challenge 2016 is an international contest that invites students from around the world to innovate to make the car of 2030 and the way it’s used more intelligent, greener, more intuitive and more fun!
Teams of two to five people can submit their ideas on the Valeo Innovation Challenge 2016 website. Finalists will be flown to Paris, France for the official awards ceremony in October 2016. And for this edition, for the first time, Valeo will award two first-place prizes!
Valeo Innovation Challenge 2016 highlights:
• Valeo will provide €5,000 to 24 semi-finalist teams to design a prototype
• Valeo will bring the 8 finalist teams to Paris for the awards ceremony in October 2016
• The top team in the category “Best Innovation” will win €100,000
• The top team in the category “Best Idea for a New Way to Use Cars” will win €100,000
• The second-place teams in both categories will each take home €10,000
A first prize of €100,000 will be awarded on completion of the contest in each of the following categories:
•The innovation prize for the best technological innovation
•The idea prize for new ways of using the car
The second prize for each in these two categories is €10,000. The deadline for submitting entries is 15 January 2016 at 12 noon, French time.
See the Valeo Innovation Challenge 2016 Rules here.
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