Localization & Grant Awards
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The Mada Innovation Award is a first of its kind award that is aimed to reward innovative solution that promotes accessibility and enhances the lives of users with disabilities.
Direct Grant Awards
This stream is designed for creating opportunities for new innovative entities who already have a “Proven Concept” for their AT product or service to establish themselves in the market. Applicants selected for this stream will be provided with a grant through MADA Innovation Program to develop the proposed product/service concept to cater towards the local and Arab market.
Localization
Localizing is conducted mainly to support Arabic inclusive solutions for PwDs and all. This stream is targeted towards international established entities who already have an existing product/service relevant to ICT Accessibility and Assistive Technology that are looking into Arabic localization of their product.
Emeging Innovation Grant
The ‘Mada Hackathon’, is a uniquely designed competition from Challenge to Prototype in 48 Hours that focuses on individuals and teams of designers, teachers, academics, students, software developers and the best-in-class innovators to develop an Accessible Open Educational Resources in Arabic language based on the Mada open-access resources: Tawasol Symbols, Unified Arabic Braille, Buhamad Sign Language Interpreter Avatar.
Vision, Mission & Our Goals
What makes Mada Innovation Award (2025) unique?
Funding by “Daam” Fund
Encouraging and developing innovative solutions based on AI technologies
Providing a comprehensive mentoring team to support the shortlisted innovators
Three new award categories
Award Categories
You can participate in the award through one of the following three categories:
Rising Innovations Category
Award value: QAR 101,000 to 150,000
Advanced, large-scale AI-based solutions characterized by high innovation and measurable impact.
One Winner
Promising Innovations Category
Award value: QAR 71,000 to 100,000
Aimed at accelerating innovations in their mid-stages and transforming them into practical real-world applications. Two Winners
Emerging Innovations Category
Award value: QAR 50,000 to 70,000
Funding dedicated to supporting new innovation trends in digital accessibility and assistive technology during their early stages.
Two Winners
Application Criteria
- The contestant, team or the company fills in all the details on the competition website at this link: https://award.mada.org.qa/submission/
- The contestant, team or the company will add all the details in the application form available on the competition site, taking care to provide all the required information.
- The contestant, team or the company receives electronic notification of the receipt of his participation.
- All applicants will be informed of the status of their applications. Only the top 20 finalists will be invited to proceed to the next stage, where they will have access to the jury’s comments and recommendations to address any gaps in their submissions. Resubmission is allowed, provided that deadlines are not exceeded.
Contact us
Telephone: 0097444594060
Email: innovation@mada.org.qa