EU Prize for Women Innovators 2019 (€ 100,000)

The European Commission has launched the sixth edition of the EU Women Innovators Prize. Deadline for applications is January 16, 2019. The prize is meant to reward women who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The EC will award up to three EU Prizes for Women Innovators and a Rising Innovator Award for young woman innovators aged 35 years or under.

The prizes are as follows:

• Three prizes of € 100,000;
• Rising Innovators € 50,000. 

Women are underrepresented in terms of creating innovative enterprises. This is an untapped potential for Europe, which needs to optimise all available resources to remain competitive and find solutions to societal challenges. This award scheme recognises the role of women in bringing about game-changing innovations to market honouring the outstanding achievements of women running innovative companies. The 'EU Prize for Women Innovators' will be awarded to women innovators who have created the largest impact on the innovation ecosystem by transforming ideas into new and advanced products and/or services for the benefit and wealth of the European citizens. The contestant must be the founder or co-founder of an existing and active company which was registered before 1 January 2018. 

It is expected that this action will continue in 2020.