Pitch competition · United Kingdom
An annual international design engineering award for current students and recent graduates with an invention that solves a problem. National winners get £5,000; the international and sustainability winners get £30,000 each.
Closed Run by James Dyson Foundation
Verified 19 October 2026 · From the programme's own pages
Entries are made online in English and published in the project gallery. Entrants keep the rights to their intellectual property. National panels pick three finalists per country, Dyson engineers pick a top 20, and James Dyson picks the winners; there is no award ceremony.
2026 award: applications opened 11 March 2026 and closed 15 July 2026; the programme starts 4 November 2026.
Usual timing: 2027 dates not yet announced. In 2026 entries opened on 11 March and closed on 15 July, national winners were announced on 16 September and the international winners on 4 November.
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