Innovation, international cooperation and the new global challenges are at the center of the Canada-Italy prize for innovation 2025. The Embassy of Canada in Italy opens the announcement aimed at researchers, experts and innovators interested in developing projects with Canadian partners
A strategic collaboration between Italy and Canada
In the context of a world in rapid transformation, theCanada Embassy in Rome He announces the opening of the Canada-Italy prize for 2025 innovation, now in its thirteenth edition. The initiative aims to give life to international collaborationsencouraging the development of concrete and innovative solutions in the key sectors of contemporaneity.
Four challenges for a sustainable and safe future
The 2025 edition focuses on four priority areas that reflect the current needs of the company and the planet:
- Energy safetymade even more urgent by global geopolitical instability.
- Artificial intelligence And Sport, with a look aimed at the Olympic and Paralympic games of Milan-Cortina 2026 and Fifa in Canada, to promote performance, safety and inclusion.
- Spatial technologyto explore new scientific opportunities and strengthen international cooperation.
- Management of migrationwith the aim of identifying effective, sustainable and human approaches to one of the most complex challenges of our times.
To whom the prize is addressed
The announcement is open to researchers, scientists, experts, professionals of the Italian creative industries, startups and innovators interested in developing projects together with Canadian colleagues.
The prize consists of a reimbursement of travel expenses in Canada up to 4 thousand euros, aimed at promoting the meeting between partners and the co-creation of research and innovation projects.
A bridge between two banks of the Atlantic
Over the years, the prize has played a decisive role in strengthening relations between Canada and Italy, contributing to the birth of high -level scientific and technological collaborations. An opportunity made even more interesting by the fact that, since 2024, Canada has been associated with the program Horizon Europe For pillar II projects, thus expanding the possibilities of strategic partnerships in the field of research.
Deadlines and more information
Applications must be sent by June 29, 2025. All the details and the complete announcement are available at the following links: Call in English e Call in French