Commissioner Moedas, responsible for Research, Science and Innovation will this evening award the 2016 EU Prize for Women Innovators.
The award ceremony will take place following a Citizens' Dialogue event in Brussels on the importance of more women in business and research. The three winners, who will receive cash prizes of up to €100,000, have been selected from a pool of nine finalists consisting of scientists turned successful entrepreneurs, all having benefited from EU research and innovation funding at some point in their careers. Commissioner Moedas said: "Europe needs to support more successful women innovators like these: people who combine scientific excellence with a head for business; people who turn their research into employment opportunities and their ideas into positive impacts for our society and our economy."
The innovations pioneered by the finalists span the whole range from mathematical algorithms used for medical predictions to software used to manage emergency situations on the International Space Station, while also including city-wide networks of connected vehicles used for wifi-hotspots and big data collection. The event will take place in Brussels at 17:30. It will be streamed live and can be followed on twitter via the hashtag #EUWIN2016.
For more information, please see the invitation to the award ceremony.
