У межах діяльності Інноваційного Союзу Європейська Комісія запрошує жінок подавати заявки на отримання Премії Європейського Союзу для жінок інноваторів. Дедлайн - 3 листопада 2016 року (далі - англ.).

The European Commission-Innovation Union is seeking applicants for its EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017 with an aim to increase public awareness on innovation and to encourage women to exploit the commercial and business opportunities and become entrepreneurs.

Deadline: 3 November 2016

Women are more and more active in research, there are still too few women creating innovative enterprises. This represents an untapped potential for Europe which needs all resources to remain competitive and find solutions to societal challenges. The prizes will boost the public awareness of the, potential, importance and contribution of women researchers to entrepreneurship and will encourage entrepreneurial women to become innovators. This will help to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy.

Prize Information

• The first prize is EUR 100 000 
• The second prize EUR 50 000 
• The third prize EUR 30 000 
• The 4th prize is EUR 20 000.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Contestants for the “EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017” shall comply with the following eligibility criteria to participate:

1. The contestant must be a woman.
For Rising Innovator Award following applies: The contestant must be a woman born as of 1986.
2. The contestant must be an ordinary resident in an EU Member State or a country associated to Horizon 2020, including Ukraine
3. The contestant must be the founder or co-founder of an existing and active company which was registered before 1 January 2015.
4. The annual turnover of the company was at least EUR 0.10 million in 2014 or 2015.
5. Either the contestant as a natural person or the company founded/co-founded by the candidate have received or is receiving European or national funding for Research and Innovation or bank funding or alternative sources of financing such as private equity, venture capital, crowd funding through platforms or business angels.

AWARD CRITERIA:

All eligible applications will be evaluated by a High level jury: The prize will be awarded, after closure of the contest, to the contestant(s) who in the opinion of the jury best addresses the following cumulative criteria :

1. The originality and marketability of the developed product or service provided by the company of the contestant. Applications will be compared according to the number of patents/co-patents and trademarks.
2. The economic impact – The economic impact of a product or service of the company for Europe is measured by the number of countries (inside and outside the EU) where the product or service is sold, and by the size of the turnover achieved with this service or product in 2014 and 2015.
3. The societal impact – the societal impact of a product or service of the company for Europe. It will be measured by the number of jobs created and the potential of the service or product to help Europe address a grand societal challenges e.g. the ageing of the European population, global warming, clean water, renewable energy and resource efficiency.
4. The impact and leadership role of the contestant. Contestants must explain how their role in the company influenced the success of the company and contestants should outline their potential to empower other women to be leaders and entrepreneurs.

Interested applicants must apply online via given website.

Deadline: 3 November 2016, 17:00

Contest Rules 

Application Guide 

For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/1kEH32b