This guide will help you to submit an error-free application for one of the most highly endowed innovation prizes in Germany.
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Innovation Award Thuringia
The Innovation Award Thuringia is one of the most highly endowed state innovation prizes in Germany.
Innovative successes and top performances need recognition, visibility and networks. As one of the most important business prizes in the Free State, the competition has been honouring outstanding Thuringian innovations since 1994.
The Innovation Award Thuringia is a prize for individuals and organizations from Thuringia. Eligible to participate are companies of all sizes, as well as individuals, research institutions, and universities with a registered office or place of business in Thuringia.
With total prize money of €100,000, the Innovation Award Thuringia is one of the highest-endowed state innovation awards in Germany. The award is presented in four categories, as well as a special prize and a personal award.
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Leading committee
The competition is held under the patronage of Thuringia’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Agriculture, and Rural Areas, Colette Boos-John.
The Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Science Thuringia is responsible for organizing and implementing the competition.
News and impulses
Innovation Award Thuringia – call for entries launched
The Innovation Award Thuringia enters the next round: The Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Agriculture and Rural Areas, the Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research Thuringia, TÜV Thüringen e. V. and…
Thuringia’s Minister of Economic Affairs meets the state’s most innovative companies
This evening, the nominees for the Innovation Award Thuringia gathered in our foundation rooms in the Defensionskaserne Erfurt.
These are the nominees for the Thuringia Innovation Award
The nominees for the Thuringia Innovation Award 2024 have been announced. In its meeting on 10.9., the 15-member jury selected 12 innovative Thuringian innovations that can hope for prize money totalling 100,000 euros at the award ceremony on 4.12.2024 in Weimar.
Applications start for the Thuringia Innovation Award 2024
Innovative ideas from Thuringia can be submitted until 30 June.
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