Deadline: 3 November 2016
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.
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 0.1 million
- The second prize EUR 0,05 million
- The third prize EUR 0,03 million
- The 4th prize is EUR 0,02 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- The contestant must be a woman.
- The contestant must be a woman born as of 1986.
- The contestant must be an ordinary resident in an EU Member State or a country associated to Horizon 2020.
- The contestant must be the founder or co-founder of an existing and active company which was registered before 1 January 2015.
- The annual turnover of the company was at least EUR 0.10 million in 2014 or 2015.
- 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.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017.