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Prizes

VivaTech innovation awards and partner challenges

Status

Usually opens in January and February and March and April

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
Not published

Award packages vary by partner-sponsored challenge. Many are in-kind (exhibition space, corporate pilots) rather than cash.

Funder

Viva Technology

private · national

Deadline: One call a year — Partner challenges and awards open in the winter and spring ahead of the June VivaTech event in Paris

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · SIREN and SIRET numbers, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://challenges.vivatechnology.com/en/challenges

"Programs closed for registration (61) ... Next Startupper Award: Applications open March 9, 2026 ... Applications close April 3, 2026"

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: challenges.vivatechnology.com

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