Open call: STARTS Prize – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts

STARTS Prize 2023 Submission Now Open 
Open call: 11 January 2023
Deadline: 3 March 2023
S+T+ARTS

The STARTS Prize 2023 of the European Commission is calling. on artists, scientists, technologists, institutions, labs and companies to submit their best projects starting today. The call for entry is open to groundbreaking works at the intersection of science, technology and the arts that can contribute to innovation. The call is open until March 3, 2023.

 

Image: Holly+, Holly Herndon, Mathew Dryhurst, Herndon Dryhurst Studio (US).
Grand Prize - Artistic Exploration at the STARTS Prize 2022. Photo: Andrés Mañón.

The Prize competition is part of S+T+ARTS (Science, Technology and the Arts) an initiative funded by the European Commission since 2016. STARTS focuses on projects that strive to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe is facing or will be facing in the near future. STARTS is driven by the conviction that, combined with an artistic viewpoint, science and technology open valuable perspectives for research and business in the field of ICT innovation, through a holistic and human-centred approach. From 2016 to 2022, this remarkable initiative funded 151 residencies with 4.5 Mio € and honored 208 STARTS Prize projects. 14,291 submissions from 96 different countries have applied to the STARTS Prize competition from 2016 to 2022.

Two prizes will be awarded, each endowed with €20,000 euros. The “Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration” will be awarded to projects that combine industry or technology and the arts, with the goal of opening new paths for innovation. The “Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration” will honor artistic research and works that have the potential to influence or change the way technology is used, applied or perceived. In addition, twenty eight more projects will receive a Nomination or an Honorary Mention. The winning projects, which will be announced in June, will be then featured at Ars Electronica Festival in September 2023 and other events of the consortium partners BOZAR, Waag Futurelab, INOVA+, T6 Ecosystems, French Tech Grande Provence and Frankfurt Bookfair.

Please see here the full rules and regulations for the application.

Winners in recent editions of the Prize:

Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration 2022

Holly+, Holly Herndon, Mathew Dryhurst, Herndon Dryhurst Studio (US) 

Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration 2022

Antarctic Resolution, Giulia Foscari (IT) & UNLESS

Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration 2021

Oceans in Transformation, Territorial Agency – John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (INT)

Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration 2021

Remix el Barrio, Food Waste, Biomaterial, Makers, Anastasia Pistofidou, Marion Real and The Remixers at Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC (INT)

Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration 2020

EDEN – Ethics – Durability – Ecology – Nature, Olga Kisseleva (FR)

Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration 2020

Design by Decay, Decay by Design, Andrea Ling (CA)

Further information is available in the press release and on the S+T+ART Prize site.

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