Winners of the 2025 Sports Innovation Award
The Sports and Parasports Show’s Sports Innovation Awards competition recognizes innovative solutions or collaborations with local authorities.
They recognize innovative products, equipment, materials, technologies, or services first marketed in the 12 months preceding the 2025 edition of the Show; and innovative products, equipment, materials, technologies, or services developed in collaboration with a local authority and marketed in the 12 months preceding the 2025 edition of the Show.
1 PRIZE, 4 CATEGORIES, 5 WINNERS
Here they are, the results of the 2024 Sports Innovation Award! After deliberation by the jury composed of expert personalities, representatives of the institutional partners of the Sports and Parasports Exhibition and the official partner of the Awards ceremony, The Sports Actors Club, the 5 winners are now known!
Category: Development of sports and active practices
Winner:
PLAYGONES
Le Spot, Joinville-le-Pont
Le Spot transforms a space beneath the A4 highway into a vibrant place combining sport, art, and nature.
This project addresses the dual challenge of rehabilitating urban interstices and promoting free access to sports for all audiences. Its added value lies in a unique transdisciplinary approach, where the City partners with Playgones (active design, sports equipment) and NotoriousBrand (artistic direction and international street art) to create a reproducible model of active and inclusive public space.
Category: Modernization of sports facilities in favor of ecological transition
Winner:
BOPA
BOPA T11
BOPA is revolutionizing the management of tennis and padel balls.
Its innovative machine allows clubs to re-pressurize up to 220 balls simultaneously, with 11 independent pressure levels. Thanks to its proprietary software, it adjusts the re-pressurization according to the type of ball — training, competition, padel…
Its secure and ergonomic design ensures simple and risk-free use: the tubes are handled outside of pressure. The result: consistently high-performing balls, a tripled lifespan, and a reduced environmental impact.
Winner:
NATURAL GRASS
Aquaflow
Aquaflow lawns are, to date, the most environmentally friendly, enabling both water savings of between 50 and 100%, the elimination of any wastewater discharge into public water networks, and progress toward zero‑pesticide management by removing the risk of turf disease.
Category: Acceleration and deployment of inclusive practices
Winner:
KMOOVE Interactive Wall
Kmoove was born from the story of Karim Mounassib, a former dyslexic student passionate about people.
He created a technology that brings people together through movement: an interactive wall without Wi-Fi or connected devices, designed for learning, moving, and cooperating. In collaboration with Epson France and Autisme Île-de-France, Kmoove has developed scientifically validated games focused on well-being and school bullying.
A French innovation — inclusive and human.
Category: Management of sports structures and development of professions and skills
Winner:
NATURAL GRASS
Shared Use of a Stadium in Rouen
Implementation of a next-generation hybrid turf, combining the flexibility of living grass (98% natural turf) with the strength of synthetic fibers (2%). The project also includes the integration of David Moutin, Turf Expert at Natural Grass, directly within the municipal teams, ensuring agronomic performance and the transfer of expertise.
