Challenges — A call for pioneers with world-changing ideas.

OUR GOAL: To find visionary solutions to tackle the grand challenges of our time.
THE PRINCIPLE: An ambitious goal - and a call for the best solution.

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Challenge formats

OUR CALLS FOR PIONEERS WITH WORLDCHANGING IDEAS
SPRIND challenges are called into being wherever there is an urgent need for action in relation to societal issues. They define a clear objective that can be solved in a wide variety of ways.
Funke – Even faster, just as uncomplicated.
SPRIND Funke is an innovation competition for pioneers with world-changing ideas - but even faster. Funke teams have the opportunity to demonstrate their breakthrough technology quickly.

Challenges

Year

challenge

Composite Learning

Open for submissions

The focus is on developing solutions that enable efficient model training on heterogeneous Hardware, from high-performance GPUs to CPUs of different types and manufacturers.

DEEPFAKE DETECTION AND PREVENTION

1st stage of the FUNKE

The prototype to be developed must demonstrate how deepfakes images can be reliably detected and authenticated. It can be AI-supported and should be able to continuously adapt to new deepfake techniques.

EUDI WALLET Prototypes

2nd stage of the funke

Pioneering solutions are needed to shape digital identity in Germany. The aim of the Funke is to develop and test technical solutions for future German EUDI wallets in the form of prototypes.

Fully Autonomous Flight

2nd stage of the funke

The aim is to develop a system that can master various challenging obstacles and tasks completely autonomously. Other autonomous systems, e.g. on the ground, can be used as support.

Tissue Engineering

1st stage of the funke

In the Challenge the feasibility of a novel approach to tissue engineering for first-in-human transplantation is to be demonstrated.

Circular Biomanufacturing

2nd stage of the Challenge

The teams are challenged to develop an end-to-end prototype that processes various carbonaceous waste streams into new products as a continuous bioproduction process.

New Computing Concepts

Challenge completed

The goal of the Challenge is to develop fundamentally new computing concepts in theory and gradually transfer them into practice. The approaches must achieve high leverage in application.