From October 29 to November 3, 2024, the XII Festival of Innovative Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2024: Innovations for Peace and Security of Ukraine” was held at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

This is the third festival held during the war. Today's situation has presented us with incredible challenges, made us realize new realities and develop strategic tasks for the post-war period of Ukraine's recovery and development.

Ukraine's post-war rebuilding should be based on the rapid and effective implementation of innovative technologies and developments in all areas of the country's economy, so this year's XII Sikorsky Challenge 2024 Festival of Innovative Projects was dedicated to these crucial areas of Ukraine's recovery.

The main events of the Festival included: 

• Forum “Innovations in the defense industry”
• International forum “International support for innovative transformation of Ukraine”
• Demonstration of interactive capabilities of the Sikorsky Challenge Immersive Virtual Exhibition for international partnership
• Thematic panel discussions
• Results and plans of the acceleration program “Sustainable City”
• Final of the Competition of innovation startup projects
• Global Greenchem Hackathon implemented under the Global Green Chemistry Innovation and Networking Program (GreenChem) of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization with financial support from the Global Environment Facility.

The Festival program was rich and interesting. The Forum and panel discussions were attended by government officials, members of the International Supervisory Board of the Sikorsky Challenge Ukraine Innovation Ecosystem, representatives of funds, accelerators, and investment companies. In addition, more than 340 guests took part in the events and discussions. But the main event of the Festival, as always, was this year Innovation Startup Competition-2024.

The competition received 140 applications from 20 cities in Ukraine, the USA, Spain and the Netherlands. The Expert Council of the Competition evaluated the applications and selected the finalists. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our experts!

As a result of the selection, 82 projects were shortlisted in 7 sections, of which 65 were presented at the Competition. The presentations were held in a mixed format (online and in person). The finalists' projects were evaluated by members of the International Jury, who determined the winners.

Section 1: Aviation, space, defense and security

1st place - Project 130 Drone with a “Letigoroshko” strike system

Winners in the nominations: 

• Export potential of products - project №130 Drone“Letygoroshko” with the strike system
• Prospects, investment attractiveness - project №118 K-PILOT 
• Practical readiness for serial production - project №67 Ground-based remote-controlled drone “Elektronoshi” 
• Technological readiness of the prototype - project №22 Robotic guidance system for attack drones of the “SHAHED” type

 Section 2. Energy sustainability and security

1st place - project №110 3B

Winners in the nominations: 

• Project idea - project №116 KPI Energy Monitor 
• Technologic feasibility - project №17 Green Hydrogen Energy Cluster. Green methanol. 
• Solving the problems of potential customers - project №75 Solar panel recycling technology 
• Business model - project №110 3B

 Section 3. Environmental safety, “green chemistry”

1st place - Project №40 Modular system of remote demining “IMPACTOR”

Winners in the nominations: 

• Project idea - project №122 Mechanical method of cleaning the surface of water areas from oil products 
• Technologic feasibility - Project №19 Nanostructured sitals for radioactive waste immobilization 
• Solving problems of potential customers - project №40 Modular system of remote demining “IMPACTOR” 
• Business model - project No. 46 Magnetic separation 

Section 4. Biomedical engineering and human health

1st place - project №80 CLTI diagnosis

Winners in the nominations: 

• Project idea - project №61- Computer-integrated ultrasound biomedical complex 
• Technologic feasibility - project №92 Anima 
• Solving problems of potential customers - project №80 CLTI diagnosis 
• Business model - project №82 Insulin without queues

Section 5: Digital country, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity

1st place - project №65 Anna Malia

Winners in the nominations: 

• Project idea - project №64 Sec-TA 
• Technologic feasibility - project №65 Anna Malia 
• Solving problems of potential customers - project №22 VISIONAV 
• Business model - project №59 BrightBrille

Section 6.  Infrastructure, industrial high-tech

1st place - project №88 Electrochemical 3D printing

Winners in the nominations: 

• Project idea - project №21 Chameleon Combatant 
• Technologic feasibility - project №88 Electrochemical 3D printing 
• Solving problems of potential customers - project №117 Di-agnistics 
• Business model - project №37 Smart Parking Navigator

Section 7 Agrotech and food security

1st place - Project №10 Equipment for pre-sowing treatment of seedlings Parostok 

Winners in the nominations: 

• Project idea - project №51 WarScan 
• Technologic feasibility - project №10 Equipment for pre-sowing treatment Parostok 
• Solving the problems of potential customers - project №7 Radio-controlled machine for field soil preparation 
• Business model - project №57 AGROFlow blockchain platform 

 

The Leonid Kuchma Presidential Foundation “Ukraine”, which has been a partner of the Sikorsky Challenge Ukraine Innovation Ecosystem for many years, recognized and financially supported the following projects: 

• Project №80 CLTI diagnostics 
• Project №22 Robotic guidance system for Shahed-type strike drones 
• Project №67 Ground-based remote-controlled drone “Electronoshi” 
• Project №131 “Ortex” 
• Project No. 38 Noise-proof communication line with post-quantum encryption 

The long-term partner of the Sikorsky Challenge Festival, JSC Meridian n.a. S.P. Korolov recognized the best in the nominations and provided financial support for the following projects:

• Best innovative idea - Project №130 “Letygoroshko” 
• Best technological solution - Project №20 “Medical office” 
• Best social mission - Project №67 “Elektronoshi”

We thank everyone involved in our Festival - participants, experts, Ukrainian and foreign Jury members, partners and sponsors, representatives of the Sikorsky Challenge Innovation Ecosystem, government officials and volunteers.

By joining our efforts, we managed to hold a really interesting, important, and useful event - to get acquainted with the innovative developments of our contestants, discuss their development plan, select the best ones, identify ways to cooperate with promising projects, and formulate plans for the future.

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 You can get acquainted with the projects that were submitted to the startup competition in 2017-2024

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