Anges du génie 2025:
Meet the winners
The Anges du génie contest rewards high-potential student projects whose objectives are aligned with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. To round out its third edition, the Anges de génie held an awards ceremony on November 20, 2025.
18 finalist teams shared $41,000 in prizes
Anges du génie
6 prizes of $5,000
granted to the projects
that stand out the most
Coup de coeur
1 prize of $5,000
granted to a project selected
by FÉRIQUE Fund Management
Winners and finalists
Intelligent and Automated Systems category
SONIA AUV [Winner]
École de technologie supérieure
The SONIA AUV team at the École de technologie supérieure has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle capable of exploring and interacting in a complex environment. With its small size, the submarine can reach shallow areas otherwise accessible only to divers in order to study a variety of marine phenomena. SONIA AUV stands out for its ability to combine diverse types of expertise to create a device capable of accomplishing a wide range of underwater activities.
A Sustainable Supply Chain Network Using Industry 4.0 Technologies
École de technologie supérieure
This research project by the École de technologie supérieure proposes to improve egg production in Canada by leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies. The proposed solution reduces human handling, limiting the risks of error and waste while improving supply chain efficiency. The project stands out for its use of sophisticated innovations to make the industry more efficient and resilient.
VAUL
Université Laval
Université Laval’s VAUL project brings together students who design autonomous vehicles that can perform a variety of tasks with minimal human intervention, including a snowplow that could enable municipalities to clear their sidewalks more efficiently. VAUL stands out as an incubator for innovative automated mobility solutions.
Health and Food Technologies
PODI [Winner]
Polytechnique Montréal
The technical company HÉKA Polytechnique Montréal has developed the PODI project, an intelligent, ergonomic exoskeleton that helps firefighters reduce their fatigue and risk of injury. PODI is noteworthy for its ability to improve user safety meaningfully in a variety of areas.
Croque Campus
École de technologie supérieure
Croque Campus, developed by the École de technologie supérieure, proposes to establish a student-run hydroponic farm to produce fresh, local vegetables and offer them free of charge to the community. The project uses modular towers with closed tanks to reduce water consumption by 90% relative to traditional agriculture. The project stands out for its innovative nature and determination to alleviate food insecurity in the student community.
EcoEaT
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
EcoEaT, developed at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, is an application designed to optimize food use and reduce waste. The project is noteworthy for its use of technology to help consumers reduce food waste.
Materials, Equipment and Structures
Projet pérennité [Winner]
École de technologie supérieure
For more than 30 years, volunteers have been carrying out infrastructure work for communities in need around the world under the PRÉCI program at the École de technologie supérieure. The program’s new initiative, Projet pérennité, will evaluate completed projects to ensure the infrastructure stands the test of time. The project is stands out for its structured approach and emphasis on collaboration with local communities to ensure PRÉCI’s humanitarian projects meet current and future needs.
Canoë de béton
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
The members of the Club Canoë de béton at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi design and make a lightweight concrete canoe to take part in the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition. The project stands out with its integration of industrial residues from the forest industry. It’s an original solution that reduces the footprint of their materials.
Bridging the Gap to Opportunity
McGill University
McGill’s Bridging the Gap to Opportunity team designs and builds suspended footbridges in remote communities to ensure residents can cross rivers safely to access essential services during severe weather. The project is noteworthy for its on-site work and humanitarian mission.
Transportation and Mobility
Véloom [Winner and Coup de coeur award]
École de technologie supérieure
The Véloom team at the École de technologie supérieure is designing a revolutionary carbon-fibre velomobile, or bicycle car. Véloom’s design combines aerodynamics and lightness, offering safety, comfort and protection from the elements that a bike cannot. The project stands out for its ability to make bicycle transportation more accessible while responding to the sustainable mobility issues facing our societies.
Optimizing Electric Vehicle Charging at Off-grid Sites
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
This project, designed at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, aims to develop a benchmark solution to ensure sustainable electrification for outfitting operations and other isolated sites by focusing on models adapted to off-grid realities and integration of smart charging stations. The project is notable for its ability to reduce reliance on diesel and support the energy transition in remote areas.
Eclipse Solar Vehicle
École de technologie supérieure
For more than 30 years, the Eclipse team at the École de technologie supérieure has been designing ever more efficient solar vehicles to push the limits of solar energy. Eclipse stands out with its ability to innovate year after year, enabling the up-and-coming generation of engineers to develop renewable energy expertise.
Digital Applications
Vocality [Winner]
Polytechnique Montréal
The Vocality team at Polytechnique Montréal is developing a mobile app that gives a voice to people who have lost the ability to speak. Thanks to artificial intelligence, people with severe speech loss can reconnect with their loved ones and break out of their isolation. Vocality learns how each user talks and analyzes the context to predict their words, sentences and intonation, ensuring fluid conversations. This project stands out for its ingenious use of AI, remarkable user experience and long-term vision of a world where everyone can be heard.
Lodavo
McGill University
McGill University’s Lodavo Project is a digital platform designed to help young adults achieve financial independence by encouraging them to save. The app stands out with fun features and cash prizes that reinforce good savings habits.
ExSmoker App
Université du Québec en Outaouais
The ExSmoker App is a digital health aid developed at the Université du Québec en Outaouais to help people quit smoking. The project is notable for its use of artificial intelligence to personalize the process and make it enjoyable for users
Innovative or Eco-responsible Solutions
Seanetik [ Winner and Innovation award ]
Université de Sherbrooke
The Seanetik team at the Université de Sherbrooke has developed an agile, fast underwater hull-cleaning robot designed to remove biofouling without immobilizing boats. This solution stands out for its ability to reduce ships’ fuel consumption and prevent the spread of invasive species, thus promoting greener maritime transport.
MicroMea
Université Laval
The MicroMea project is developing a micromethanization technology that allows companies to transform their organic waste into biogas on their own property. MicroMea is noteworthy for a turnkey proposal giving companies that produce small volumes of residual materials the ability to recover their waste at low cost.
HyphTech
Université de Sherbrooke
HyphTech at the Université de Sherbrooke transforms mycelium, the root structure of a fungus, into next-generation eco-leather to offer a bio-based alternative to conventional leather. The project is notable for its ability to offer concrete ecological solutions to various industries, including fashion, furniture and automotive.