Requests for Applications: Arquus Innovation Challenge 2025

Deadline Date: February 12, 2025

  Donor Name: Arquus

 Grant Size: Not Available

https://www.agorize.com/en/challenges/arquus-2025

Arquus is organizing, with the assistance of AGORIZE, a challenge to invite different Teams, composed of one or more participants, to produce innovative concepts for tactical and logistical vehicles, armored or not, which make it possible to better address the problems encountered in current and future combat theaters, formalized by different deliverables (such as documents, files, texts, presentations, videos, etc.).

Every day Arquus works to design, develop and produce vehicles and associated systems that meet a primary objective: to transport and protect land armed forces to enable them to carry out their mission.

In a context marked by the rapid evolution of the characteristics and challenges of the theater of operations, as well as by the continuous emergence of new technologies, it is imperative to innovate to offer a range of vehicles and systems that always better meet the objective of safe transportation of troops and accomplishment of their mission.

As such, they are convinced that your talent and creativity are key to helping them innovate: take part in the challenge and help them invent the land defense systems of tomorrow in terms of functionality, architecture, design & system integration.

Missions & Categories

• Safely transporting land forces and carrying out the mission assigned to them: this is the vocation of Arquus vehicles and associated systems.
• Reconnaissance, on-board combat, troop transport, anti-aircraft warfare: these are the typical missions to be carried out by Arquus vehicles.
• These missions are nevertheless part of a rapidly changing context, both in terms of characteristics, threats and challenges in the theatre of operations, and the rapid emergence of new technologies.
• In particular, the theatre of operations sees the emergence of new battle spaces:
  • Underground with the increasing deployment of trenches and tunnels
  • Aerial with the proliferation of drones: faced with this new threat, it is necessary to set up effective anti-drone systems with the aim of detecting and then neutralizing them.
  • Digital, with in particular the rise of the cyber threat as well as electronic warfare. One of the emerging challenges is also to ensure digital continuity: how to ensure the link between the commander and disembarked troops? How to take advantage of digitalization and IT or RF communication resources to ensure collaboration between the vehicle and the embarked or disembarked troops?

Benefits

• All finalists will receive an Arquus participation and commitment diploma as well as many goodies. And the 3 winning teams will leave with…
  • 1st Prize
    • Each team member will win the following prizes: a touch pad and a gift card worth seventy-five (75) euros.
  • 2nd Prize
    • Each team member will win the following prizes: a smart watch and a gift card worth fifty (50) euros.
  • 3rd Prize
    • Each team member will win the following prizes: a pair of AirPods and a gift card worth twenty (20) euros.

Eligibility Criteria

• By registering for the Challenge and accepting these Rules, the Participant acknowledges:
  • Be a natural person aged eighteen (18) years or older,
  • Have full legal capacity to accept such Regulations,
  • Currently be a student enrolled in a French higher education establishment, and
  • Not be a staff member or a direct descendant or ascendant of a staff member of the Organizing Company and/or Agorize.
• The Organizing Company is authorized to ask the Participant, from the time of registration, and up to three (3) months following the end of the Challenge and in particular, where applicable, before any award of a prize, to send it any element justifying its eligibility to participate in the Challenge (and in particular, but not limited to, a copy of an identity document, a student card). The Participant undertakes to send any appropriate supporting element as soon as possible, and at the latest within five (5) working days following the issue of the request by the Organizing Company.
• Any Participant who is a national of a country in which participation in the Challenge would be prohibited or limited by the law or regulations in force is prohibited from registering to participate.

Team Rules and Participation Limits

• When registering to participate in the Challenge, each Participant joins a team it being specified that:
  • a Team cannot be made up of more than five (5) Participants,
  • A Participant may choose to participate individually, in which case he or she will form a Team.
• It is specified that a Participant can only integrate two Teams maximum for the Challenge, without being able to integrate two Teams of which he would be the only Participant.

For more information, visit Agorize.