The 19th Quality Innovation Award has successfully concluded, celebrating outstanding innovations from across the globe. This year, a remarkable total of 565 innovations from 6 countries participated in the competition, with the top 24 being recognized with prestigious Awards or Prizes. The host for the traditional Award Ceremony has not been confirmed yet. We will confirm it soon and share the update with everyone.

 

As in previous years, the winners of each category underwent a rigorous evaluation process based on a strict methodology. Key criteria included novelty value, usability, learning, customer orientation and effectiveness. The winners were selected through a meticulous voting process conducted by the participating national Quality Associations.

 

After identifying the 8 category winners, the international jury selected the annual Innovation of Innovations from among these top innovations. This year, the Innovation of Innovations prize goes to DMIND–Thailand’s Clinically Trained National AI Platform for Depression Detection and Digital Mental-Health Care, developed by Faculty of Medicine and Center of Excellence in Digital and AI for Mental Health, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, from Thailand.

 

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners for their extraordinary achievements!

 

For more information, please visit our website at www.qiaward.com or contact us directly:

 

China Association for Quality

Ms. Jing (Twinkle) Tong

+86 10 6607 2213

qia@caq.org.cn

 

Full list of awards:

 

Innovation of Innovations

Faculty of Medicine and Center of Excellence in Digital and AI for Mental Health, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University / Thailand

DMIND – Thailand’s Clinically Trained National AI Platform for Depression Detection and Digital Mental-Health Care 

DMIND (Detection and Monitoring Intelligence Network for Depression) is Thailand’s first AI-based national platform for depression detection, triage, and proactive follow-up integrated with Mor Prom and hotline 1323

 

Potential innovations

Award Winner: Beijing Institute of Near-space Vehicle’s Systems Engineering / China

"Mu Yao" Intelligent Design Platform for Aircraft

Inspired by the ancient Chinese wooden kite, this project applies AI to aerodynamic shape design in aerospace to break traditional design constraints, improve design efficiency, and enable new innovation possibilities. By combining deep learning with aerodynamic optimization, it develops a compact (dimension-reduced) representation of complex 3D shapes, extracts key geometric features from cross-sectional images, and enables flexible control and redesign of any aircraft segment—shortening iteration cycles and overcoming limits of conventional modeling methods.

 

Prize Winner: Ingurumena Advanced Technologies = imatek / Spain

Battery Box: Safe, modular and intelligent system for charging and controlling electric batteries with IoT and active fire suppression

Battery Box allows charging, protecting and monitoring electric batteries in urban and industrial fleets with IoT sensors and automatic fire extinguishing, ensuring safety, traceability and continuous control.

 

Prize Winner: Chiang Mai University / Thailand

CMU Green Road: Carbon-Negative Pavement from Biochar and Recycled Plastic

Transforms harmful agricultural and plastic waste into a superior, carbon-negative road. A 6,350 sq.m. pilot locked away 101.2 tCO2eq, solving pollution while exceeding all engineering standards.

 

Circular economy and carbon neutrality innovations

Award Winner: Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Center – University of the Basque Country / Spain

Sustainable Machining with Recycled CO₂ for ECO₂ Machining (Economy + Ecology)

BeCold® replaces conventional cutting fluids with recycled CO₂ and vegetable oil, achieving cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable machining, with global impact and easy industrial integration.

 

Prize Winner: Resand Oy / Finland

Enabling major sustainability improvements by closing the sand cirulation in foundy process

The core of the innovation is to treat used foundry sand and return it back to core and mold making. In addition to technical solution a special feature is the business model in which we are offering the sand as a service. The background for the innovation is the need for the foundry industry to renew itself to respond to the increase of costs due to depletion of natural resources and tightening/increasing regulation.

 

Prize Winner: Chiang Mai University / Thailand

Bio-Circular Innovation Using Black Soldier Fly for Waste Valorization and Carbon Neutrality

A sustainable circular system utilizing Black Soldier Fly larvae to convert organic waste into high-value protein feed and biofertilizer, reducing carbon emissions and promoting green livelihoods.

 

Health care sector innovations

Award Winner: Donostialdea Integrated Health Organization (IHO)- Basque Health Service (Osakidetza) / Spain

Advanced therapies: innovation towards personalized and efficacious treatments 

Set up of the Advanced Therapies Unit (ATU) of Donostialdea IHO, integrating healthcare and research activities and providing efficacious therapeutic solutions to the Basque population

 

Prize Winner: Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group / China

Establish an intelligent lifecycle management system for pharmaceutical products

Focus on the "whole process" management of drug production, taking the "batch" of products as the main axis of traceability, implement the principle of "full-process control" by the holder, build a whole-process information management platform for products, and achieve one-click data management for all links before and after the product's market entry. Ensure that the data query time for drug production, testing, storage and transportation is less than 20 minutes.

 

Prize Winner: Chiang Mai University / Thailand

Proactive Management for Collaborative Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Care in Upper Northern Part of Thailand

A proactive management system integrating multidisciplinary teams across eight provinces in northern Thailand to ensure continuous, patient-centered, and equitable cleft and craniofacial care.

 

Education sector innovations

Award Winner: Politeknika Txorierri / Spain

Training to Transform: Educational Innovation for Digital and Sustainable TVET in Africa 

SUSTAIN-IT empowers African TVET through teacher training, IoT-based environmental projects and Challenge-Based Learning, driving sustainability and digitalisation in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Namibia.

 

Prize Winner: Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University / Thailand

Online learning platform “MDCU MedUMORE” Pioneering the future of Medical Education

To transform medical education by developing an Innovative learning platform that encourages understanding, develops abilities, and advances healthcare.

 

Prize Winner: Guizhou Light Industry Polytechnic University / China

Data-Driven Integration of “Diagnosis-Improvement + Supervision + Certification” Practice in Classroom Teaching Quality Evaluation

Classrooms are central to talent development and a key focus of education evaluation reform. Reforming classroom teaching evaluation helps improve teaching quality and efficiency, support students’ all-round growth, and promote teachers’ professional development. It is also an important driver of long-term quality governance in higher vocational colleges. To advance this reform, the school uses digital technology to innovate the classroom teaching evaluation indicator system. It extends the diagnostic-and-improvement mechanism into daily classroom teaching, adopts a combined quantitative and qualitative evaluation approach, and integrates “diagnostic improvement, supervision, and certification” into a classroom certification evaluation system. An integrated teaching evaluation management platform has also been built to enable data-driven classroom evaluation.

 

Public sector innovations

Award Winner: Faculty of Medicine and Center of Excellence in Digital and AI for Mental Health , Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University / Thailand

DMIND – Thailand’s Clinically Trained National AI Platform for Depression Detection and Digital Mental-Health Care 

DMIND (Detection and Monitoring Intelligence Network for Depression) is Thailand’s first AI-based national platform for depression detection, triage, and proactive follow-up integrated with Mor Prom and hotline 1323.

 

Prize Winner: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. / China

Geely Intelligent Diagnostic System（GIDS）

One of the first intelligent diagnostics platform spanning R&D, manufacturing, supply,and sales; it fuses AI with bigdata pipelines into a diagnosticguidance model that delivers precise crossbrand fault isolation and intelligent remedy recommendations.

 

Prize Winner: IKERKUDE S.L. (Auziker) / Spain

Innovation in dog training: real scent, effective results, safe and versatile use.

At Auziker, we combine science and direct contact with dog handlers. We design devices with the actual substance to be detected, ensuring safety for both the dog and the handler, and maximum training effectiveness.

 

Business innovations (micro & startup companies)

Award Winner: CARE APPLICATIONS SLU / Spain

Dyeing with an inert and controlled atmosphere for sustainable dyeing in Jets and Autoclaves

Modular and customized system that optimizes the textile dyeing process by generating an oxygen-free atmosphere, reducing chemical use by up to 85% and improving quality and reproducibility.

 

Prize Winner: Chiang Mai University / Thailand

Hair Rise– Bio-Circular Innovation Transforming Thai Rice By-Products into Global Beauty Value

Hair Rise transforms edible Thai plants into science-backed bioactives for anti-hair-loss and hair-growth with drug-like efficacy, advancing sustainable beauty and farmer well-being.

 

Prize Winner: Losonczi Innovation Ltd. / Hungary

Smart Grip Guard – A smart seating detection system for CNC fixtures

An Industry 4.0-ready, multi-point wireless system utilizing direct pressure measurement to verify proper workpiece seating before CNC machining can commence.

 

Business innovations (small and medium sized enterprises)

Award Winner: China Railway Shanhaiguan Bridge Group Co., Ltd. / China

Development of steel technology management system for mega-bridges

We have independently developed a specialized steel technology management system for mega-bridge construction, revolutionizing workflows by eliminating manual operations and reducing error risks. This system achieves seamless integration across design-construction coordination, component-steel synchronization, graphic-data alignment, and CAD-electronic spreadsheet interoperability, providing robust data support for comprehensive bridge lifecycle management. While ensuring product quality, it simultaneously delivers cost optimization and operational efficiency enhancement.

 

Prize Winner: Laboratorios Ojer Pharma, S.L. / Spain

GTP Bioadhesive sustained-release gels for use in human and veterinary dermatology

Transparent, film-forming bioadhesive gels that act as sustained-release matrices, improving safety, efficacy and adherence in human and veterinary dermatology.

 

Prize Winner: PTT LNG Company Limited / Thailand

Sustainable Agriculture from LNG Cold Energy

Utilizing LNG regasification cold energy to develop automated greenhouses for temperate crops, reducing carbon emissions, creating economic value, and promoting sustainable agriculture in Thailand.

 

Business innovations (large companies)

Award Winner: DRAGADOS S.A. / Spain

SOGUN: Geometric Control System for the Shotcrete Robot

SOGUN scans the surface of a tunnel in construction, compares with the project design and beams the needed shotcrete thickness information on the tunnel walls, improving the current shotcrete process.

 

Prize Winner: TechJet Aerfoils Ltd / Israel

AI-Based Graphite Application System for Compressor blades Airfoil Connectors

A smart automated system using AI and 3D printing to apply graphite precisely on airfoil connectors, improving coating accuracy, process control, and reducing material waste and rework.

 

Prize Winner: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. / China

Innovative Applications of AI and Machine Learning in Electronic Assembly Material Development

Materials development often relies on expert experience, which can’t keep up with fast product iterations. This project partnered with suppliers and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to pilot AI/ML-assisted formulation development for thermally adhesive electronic materials. By building an experimental-data-driven material database and using ML recommendation plus Bayesian-optimized experiment design, the project reduced R&D effort by 40% and improved powder formulation cost benefits by 33.5%. Huawei also deployed the AI-enabled digital R&D solution to 60+ material suppliers, published related research, and co-drafted an industry group standard—helping shift electronic materials R&D from experience-based to prediction-driven.