Our Professor Ron Johnston Humanitarian Innovation Awards encourage and rewards students by challenging them to engineer cutting-edge solutions that positively impact people around the world.
With growing humanitarian needs and limited funding, innovative solutions are vital to assist the most vulnerable groups in new and efficient ways.
Our annual Professor Ron Johnston Humanitarian Innovation Awards is a means of doing just that, by encouraging and rewarding university students to create cutting-edge solutions that could save lives and make a positive impact on people around the world!
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Our Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon is an annual event designed for undergraduate university students to work in cross-discipline teams to create technology-driven solutions for the most pressing humanitarian challenges.
The Hackathon is a weekend-long hybrid program open to all university students in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Catch up on our Hackathon information webinar to learn more about the 2026 program:
Hackathon Innovation Winner (Medal and $5,000)
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Hackathon Innovation Runner Up Prize ($3,000)
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Hackathon Innovation 3rd Prize ($1,000)
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Special Commendation
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"Team 9A Nucleus"
"Team 14C The IT Crowd"
"Team 13B Pacific Green Machine"
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"Winter is not Coming"
"Greys Humanity"
"Fortitude"
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Our Humanitarian Innovation Pitch is an annual national prize recognising postgraduate by coursework and higher degree by research (HDR) university students for conducting research that can be applied to address pressing issues facing underserved or marginalised communities.
The Pitch is designed to raise the profile of Postgraduate and HDR student research that has made or has the potential to make contributions to addressing humanitarian or development challenges.
In particular, the Pitch seeks to encourage students to think about how governments, institutions, non-governmental organisations, and communities might apply their research.
Entrants must put forward a submission in which they connect their postgraduate coursework or HDR degree research to a real problem in a humanitarian or development context (post-disaster, protracted crisis, development assistance or otherwise). Basic or applied research will be considered, but there must be a connection made to practical solutions for communities.
The research must make a clear connection to one or more of the .
Participants should look to select a focus area which:
The judges will place emphasis on the Pitch video. The applicant may elect any form of content within the Pitch. This includes slides, animation, or other graphics. Applicants are advised to ensure that their Pitch is clear and definitive, and describes the problem and research within the nominated time limits. Videos must not exceed 5 minutes in duration.
Submissions must be concise and demonstrate the contributions of the research to both theory and practice. Evaluation critera will be the degree to which the research:
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Phyllis Wairimu Ngugi (Bond University): ""
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Professor Ron Johnston, the former Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Innovation (ACIIC), has worked for more than 30 years to pioneer a better understanding of the ways that science and technology contribute to economic and social development, the characteristics of the global knowledge economy, and the processes and culture of innovation.
His special skill is based on the breadth of his knowledge across technologies and his ability to integrate them into a socioeconomic and environmental context.
These annual awards are named in honor of him, to recognise his outstanding contributions as Director of ACIIC for some 20+ years.
