Award

The fourth Future Internet Award competition is now open. This Award recognises excellence in innovation among Future Internet projects and initiatives from across Europe. The winner will receive a specially engraved Waterford crystal vase, as well as the opportunity to promote their work to a Europe-wide audience of industry, academic and public agency bodies.

The two-page entry forms can be downloaded here with more information on the criteria and judging process available here. The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 6th April, 2012.

The winning entry will be announced at the closing ceremony of Aalborg’s Future Internet Week, 7-11 May, 2012.

Click here to see past winners of the Award

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The ‘Future Internet Award’, supported and organised by the ceFIMS Coordination Action, is an opportunity for European national and regional Future Internet initiatives to promote their work. Initiatives can take the form of innovative products and services that will shape the Future Internet. The award will be awarded every six months to the initiative that is adjudged to have the greatest potential to advance the Future Internet and which provides an exemplar for innovate products/services.

The winning FI initiative will be able to use the award for promotional purposes. The award will be a crystal glass vase with the inscription Future Internet Award and the location where the presentation was made.

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Criteria

Entries will be adjudicated on the basis of the following criteria:

Implementations in place
Involvement and contacts with industry & SMEs
Innovate use of technologies
Inclusion of local entities, citizens, communities
Universal usability and access
Contribution towards reducing the Digital Divide
Societal impacts
Environmentally friendly
Excellence in themed areas and/or cross-domain
Cross-regional and/or cross-national

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Adjudication

A Judging Panel comprising representatives from research, industry and public agencies expert in the FI domain will judge the entries, based on the information contained in the attached application form. Further information may be sought before a final decision is made. The Award will be given to the best FI initiative in the opinion of the judges.

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Past Award Winners

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