The EU Prize for Women Innovators will be awarded to three women entrepreneurs, who were at some point during their careers beneficiaries of funding for projects under the RTD Framework Programme (FP) or the Competitive and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). It is time to have your accomplishments recognised and maybe win one of the first EU Prizes for Women Innovators.

The following prizes are to be won:

1st prize: €100 000

2nd prize: €50 000

3rd prize: €25 000

First step: The European Commission Innovation Union will ask for your personal details. Second step: you will be asked to upload a scanned version of the business register of the company you (co-) founded as well as a scanned version of any official papers demonstrating that you received or are receiving FP or CIP funding. Please make sure that you have these documents at hand before you start the submission. As a last step, is to present your achievements to the EC Innovation Union.

The application process is designed to be as simple as possible, other information can be seen here.

Should you need further clarification, please call the help line directly on: 0032 483 506 825 or e-mail at: rtd-women-innovators@ec.europa.eu.

The contest rules are available here.

The deadline for submission of applications is 20 September 2011 at 17.00. The award ceremony will take place on 5 December 2011 at the Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission in Brussels.

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