Are you one of the world’s visionaries shaping tomorrow’s solutions?
The 2024 Curtinnovation Awards recognise and celebrate individuals and teams connected to Curtin through research, study, work or partnership who are developing innovations that will have a positive impact on society.
All ideas are welcome. Previous winners of the Curtinnovation Awards include an electrolyser process to produce green hydrogen from untreated water; an AI chatbot that prompts users to better manage their life and emotions; and a device that saves children with chronic ear infections from surgery.
Finalists will receive wider recognition of their work plus and a significant cash prize, plus be considered for further commercialisation support and the chance to promote their work to high-value business leaders at our annual Curtinnovation Awards luncheon on Friday 30 August 2024.
Current students and staff, Curtin Alumni or industry partners, and graduates of our Curtin Entrepreneurship programs, Curtin Accelerate and Curtin Ignition, are encouraged to apply.
Applications are now open until Friday 3 May 2024.
2024 Award Categories
Register for our Information Seminar
11:00am Wednesday 17 April 2024
Enjoy a light lunch whilst gaining valuable insights on how to strengthen your application for the 2024 Curtinnovation Awards. Option to attend this event in person or online.
Key Dates
Tuesday 5 March 2024 – Applications Open
Friday 3 May 2024 – Applications Close
Monday 20 May 2024 – Finalists Announced
Friday 30 August 2024 – Winners Announced
Frequently Asked Questions
2023 Awards Recipients
Curtin University is pleased to announce the 10 award recipients for the 2023 Curtinnovation Awards, representing a diverse range of industries and sectors and scale of business development, announced at the annual ceremony on Friday 20 October where business leaders, investors, and key stakeholders received the opportunity to meet the finalists and learn more about their exciting innovations.
We also congratulate the 2023 finalists who made it through to the penultimate stage before final selection:
- SpeedSig: a new way to understand how athletes run
- A novel treatment for Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)
- The XIoT Tag: a livestock health & wellbeing monitoring device
- A decontamination process to remove toxic elements from mining-influenced water
- Democratic Climate Bonds: a novel financial instrument that combines climate bonds and deliberative democracy to facilitate climate action
- A valuation method for Asian options
- A decision support tool for the optimisation of drill and blast designs
- System-Wide Foundation for Improvement (SFWI): A program to build positive school cultures
- A pelletisation technology to decarbonise iron and steel making