Hannover-CeBIT,
16.03.2007
British, Swedish
and Austrian entrepreneurs win the EU's ICT
prize
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A
communications solution that offers businesses
access to fixed-line phone services anytime,
anywhere, an automatic scanner that digitises
books in minutes and a software translation
system that avoids the need for reprogramming
are the Grand Prize winner |
"Information
and communications technology opens up a world
of new possibilities – new ways of working
and new ways of living," said Information
Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding
as she awarded the prizes in Hannover. "Innovations
such as these are essential if Europe is to stay
ahead in the global game. These prizes recognise
European industries continuing capacity to develop
and deploy state of the art ICT products."
For the first time the European ICT Prize awards
ceremony took place at CeBIT, the world's largest
ICT trade fair in Hannover, Germany. The three
Grand Prize Winners (of equal merit) each receiving
an award of €200,000 are:
Telepo's Business Communication Solution: for extending advanced voice and messaging for
the mobile workforce by integrating mobile and
fixed-line communications. Telepo, based in Stockholm
Sweden, has offices in Finland and Australia.
Transitive Corporation's QuickTransit: for
software translation without source code or
binary code changes. Transitive, founded in
2000, has its headquarters
in Los Gatos, California and a research and development team in Manchester,
UK.
Treventus Mechatronics' ScanRobot™: for lowering costs and increasing
speed for digital library creation through automatic distortion-free book scanning.
Treventus, founded in 2006, is a spin-off of the Vienna University of Technology
and is based in Austria.
Background:
The European ICT Prize, the EU's own"Grand Prize" for
innovation in information and communication technologies,
is funded by the
European Commission’s Framework Programme
for Research. Since 1995 this
has been organised every year by the Commission
together with the European Council of Applied
Sciences, Technologies and Engineering (Euro-CASE).
The judges are independent experts who recommend
the winners and grand prize winners to the Commission.
The Executive Jury was chaired this year by Professor
Wolfgang Wahlster of Germany.
Twenty European ICT Prize Winners 2007 by country:
Germany: 7
France: 4
Austria: 3
Sweden: 2
Finland: 1
Israel: 1
Norway: 1
United Kingdom: 1
See full details of the finalists and their projects
at: www.ict-prize.org
The
European Information and Communication Technologies
Prize is organised by Euro-CASE* with the support
and sponsorship of the European Commission.
More information:
Euro-CASE, Tel: +33 1 53 59 53 40, mail@ict-prize.org
*Euro-CASE is a European non-profit organisation
of national academies of Engineering, Technologies
and Applied Sciences from 20 European countries.
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