Call for proposals

“EU Prize for Women Innovators 2018" - H2020-SWFS-2016-2017-35

 

Objective and description

The European Commission launched the fifth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators which will be awarded to women entrepreneurs who successfully brought their outstanding innovations to market.

 

The European Commission plans to award up to three "EU Prize for Women Innovators" and one "Rising Innovator Award" following a European-wide contest.

 

The prizes are addressed to women who have founded or co-founded a company and who themselves or their company have benefitted from funding related to research and/or innovation. The prizes will not reward innovation proposed for the future, but outstanding achievements that have been already accomplished by the participant.

 

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.

 

Eligible applicants

Participants for the "EU Prize for Women Innovators 2018" have to comply with the following eligibility criteria to participate:

1.     The participant must be a woman. For Rising Innovator Award following applies: The participant must be a woman born as of 1 January 1987.

2.     The participant must be an ordinary resident in an EU Member State or a country associated to Horizon 2020.

3.     The participant must be the founder or co-founder of an existing and active company which was registered before 1 January 2016.

4.     The annual turnover of the company was at least EUR 100,000 in 2015 or 2016 (EUR 50,000 for the category Rising Innovator).

5.     Either the participant 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.

 

Budget

The first prize is EUR 100,000, the second prize EUR 50,000, the third prize EUR 30,000 and the Rising Innovator prize is EUR 20,000.

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission

Applications must be submitted 15 November 2017, 17:00 Brussels time, via the Participant Portal 'Submission Service', accessible via the call page.

 

The 12 best applications will be invited in January 2018 for a hearing with the jury. On the basis of the evaluation by the jury, the Commission will decide on the award of the prize. All participants will be informed in the 1st quarter of 2018 about the outcome of the contest.

 

Further information

Please find attached the call documents. Application PART A and PART B for the prize are available after entering the submission tool.

 

More information: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/h2020-swfs-2016-2017-35.html

 

 

Kind regards,

Rosemary

 

Rosemary STREVINIOTI

Head of Brussels Office
European Office of Cyprus
Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor
B-1000 Brussels
Tel./Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85
E-mail: strevinioti.rozamaria@ucy.ac.cy

 

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