" Ars Electronica | S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 "
Ars Electronica | S+T+ARTS Prize 2025
Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts
S+T+ARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the S+T+ARTS Prize awards the most pioneering collaborations and results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. The S+T+ARTS Prize of the European Commission is launched by Ars Electronica and the consortium partners INOVA+, French Tech Grand Provence, Media Solutions Center Baden-Württemberg, HLRS High Performance Computer Center Stuttgart, Salzburg Festival, Sonar, T6Ecosystems and Kustodie at TUD Dresden University of Technology. Since 2016, more than 200 projects out of 14.291 submissions from 96 different countries have been honored and a total of €320,000 in prize money has been distributed in the S+T+ARTS Prize competition.
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Two prizes, each with €20,000 prize money, are offered to honor innovative projects at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. In addition the prizewinners will be supported in presenting their work at the 2025 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration: honors innovative collaboration between industry or technology and the artistic (and creative) sectors that open up new avenues for innovation
Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration: honors artistic research and works whose adoption by the arts has great potential to influence or change the use, application, or perception of technology
APPLICATION DEADLINE
March 5, 2025
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
ELIGIBILITY
Who can enter?
Artists/creative professionals or the researchers/companies involved from throughout the world; S+T+ARTS is not limited to citizens of EU-member states.
APPLICATION DETAILS
What can be submitted?
- Groundbreaking collaborations and projects driven by both technology and the arts. Purely artistic or technologically driven projects are not the focus of this competition.
- All forms of artistic works and practices with a strong link to innovation in technology, business and/or society; furthermore, S+T+ARTS is not restricted to a particular genre such as media art and digital art.
- All types of technological and scientific research and development that has been inspired by art or involves artists as catalysts of novel thinking.
- The jury is looking forward to receiving submissions from a broad variety of fields and disciplines. Among others, projects from the areas of new media applications, human computer interaction, machine learning, biotechnology, art & science, green technologies, material research, smart cities and citizen empowerment, robotics, quantum technology and many more are very welcome to apply.
- For inspiration, have a look at our broad range of winners, honorary mentions and nominations of the past years.
DEADLINE
2025-03-05
TYPE OF SUPPORT
Public funding
FUNDING COUNTRIES
All EU Countries