SPARK Challenge

About the SPARK Challenge

The SPARK Challenge is an internal programme designed to reward the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of SYSTRA Group employees. Anyone can submit innovative ideas, concepts or projects and become an intrapreneur. The winning projects are selected by an international jury and by all employees for the public prize.

SYSTRA relies on its employees to invent innovative solutions that create value for our clients and contribute to the development of sustainable mobility.

The Spark Challenge In 2024

3rd edition

374 ideas

18 countries

844 participants

At the heart of our strategy

Thanks to the SPARK Challenge, all our sites and subsidiaries are involved in building our innovation culture and strategy. We encourage and recognise the creative spirit of our employees and are convinced that they are at the heart of our Group’s potential for innovation.

The intrapreneurship programme also offers a unique training opportunity, enabling our employees to familiarise themselves with new methods and acquire essential entrepreneurial skills.

With the help of our intrapreneurs, we can offer our customers innovative products and services that are as close as possible to their needs.

An opportunity for everyone to develop their skills

Participating in the SPARK Challenge is also an opportunity for employees to develop a project from A to Z. Accompanied by coaches trained in agility and entrepreneurship methods, the intrapreneurs have an enriching experience to bring their projects and ideas to life to life.

The programme has enabled me to connect with two colleagues who are facing the same issues as I am. Thanks to the SPARK Challenge, we were able to collaborate on a cutting-edge project, while working from two different countries.
Benjamin TAN, Innovation Project Manager, SYSTRA

The SPARK Challenge enabled us to transform our engineering idea into a concrete product, while learning new working methods and exploring innovative technologies thanks to the intrapreneurship programme.
Andra-Cristina STANCULESCU, Project Manager, SYSTRA France

Thanks to the coaching, we were able to validate the idea and test it with users. The programme teams drew our attention to areas for improvement. Thanks to them, we now have a vision of how to make our idea a reality from a technical and financial point of view. 
Maya CHALLITA, Head of Building, BU SYSTRA D&B and International

SYSTRA is offering us the opportunity to acquire and refine entrepreneurial skills through this programme. The SPARK Challenge gives visibility to our ideas and commitment, which values you you and enables us to turn them into reality.
Gunjan THANKI, Digital Engineering Lead, SYSTRA India

SPARK Challenge, creating value

The SPARK Challenge is helping to expand technical knowledge and propose solutions to combat the environmental and climate crisis. Our programme has given rise to concrete solutions that are now being offered to our clients:

Cyclops, a solution for better transport planning, integrating active mobility and optimising cycle networks.

CYCLOPS is a platform that integrates active mobility data to help transport planners and decision makers optimise cycling networks.

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Sysmap, a simplified solution for creating sophisticated maps.

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SafebyBIM, a tool for identifying and managing safety risks to ensure safe design of infrastructures.

SAFEbyBIM is a solution that fully integrates technical risk management into our design process by exploiting BIM data and allowing real-time risk sharing to all collaborators.

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