Future Innovators Awards

Applications for the 2023 Future Innovators Awards are now open. Start your application today.

Are you a Year 12 student at a New South Wales high school with a creative business idea to improve your local community or city?

Apply to our Future Innovators Awards and your idea could secure you a $6,000 scholarship.

What are the Future Innovators Awards?

Exclusively available to Year 12 students studying at New South Wales high schools, the Future Innovators Awards aim to recognise the visionary influencers of the future. Submit your business idea with local impact for a chance to receive a cash voucher and award from the University of Sydney.

Future Innovators Awards winners who commence their studies at the University of Sydney Business School in 2023 will also be considered for a Sydney Scholars Award valued at $6,000.*

^{*Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a separate Sydney Scholars Award application to be considered for a wide range of other scholarships and/or an application for the Early Offer Year 12 (E12) Scheme for access to equity scholarships.}

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must:

• be a Year 12 student studying in Australia at a New South Wales high school at the time of application
• complete the online application form with the answers to the three application questions

Both domestic and international students are eligible if they meet the above criteria.

Frequently asked questions

Hear from a Future Innovators Award recipient

Varun Ravindran's "Why not?" attitude has taken him from high school Prefect and Peer Mentor to International Physics Olympiad participant, recipient of the Caltex Award for Best All Rounder and, most recently, Future Innovators Award winner.

"My Future Innovators Awards idea, FoodSend, was targeted at creating an in-app extension for major food delivery services like Uber Eats, Menulog and Deliveroo that allowed consumers to sponsor a meal of their choice to a disadvantaged household," Varun says.

Now a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Dalyell Scholars) student at the University of Sydney Business School, Varun is majoring in Finance and Economics and hopes to one day apply his creative and technical knowledge to the fields of business consultancy or financial advisory.