DrivenData Open Competitions
DrivenData (competitions sponsored by mission-driven organisations and agencies)
A standing venue where social-sector sponsors post machine learning and data science challenges with cash purses. Entrants compete on a held-out benchmark; there is no proposal, budget or institutional paperwork.
- Indicative award
- $20k–$50k (varies by call)Purses are set per competition by the sponsor. Those listed as open at the time of checking ranged from $20,000 (Mozilla Data Collective speech recognition) to $50,000 (National Tutoring Observatory), plus a EUR 25,000 medical imaging challenge. There is no standing amount.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.New competitions post continuously and each carries its own closing date; competitions listed as open at the time of checking closed in late August and mid-September 2026. Check the listing rather than a fixed cycle.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to individual data scientists and research teams worldwide, including students and doctoral researchers; entry is by account registration and a submitted model, not by institutional application. Prize eligibility can be restricted by sponsor-specific rules and export controls, so each competition's own rules page governs. Sponsors, not DrivenData, set the purse.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- machine learning · predictive modeling · speech recognition · education data · health imaging
- Apply at
- https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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