Submission deadline 9 January 2019 – European Geothermal Innovation Award
EGEC - Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award Website
Alexander Richter
8 Jan 2019
The deadline for submission to the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2019 is coming up. Submit your project, company or innovation for consideration by January 9, 2019.
The submission deadline for the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2019 is January 9, 2019.
The annual European award for innovation in the geothermal field has been renamed in memory of Ruggero Bertani, who passed away in June 2018 at the age of 62. The award is now designated the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award. A world’s leading expert on geothermal power production, Ruggero Bertani was President of EGEC since 2016.
Endorsed nominations and the award winner are recognised for their outstanding work and impact on a growing and dynamic industry. The award recognises originality, innovation, reliability, reduction of emissions and improvements in energy output, an opportunity for industry peers to acknowledge excellence, and for the most exciting ideas to be widely publicised.
Applications for the award 2019 are now open and can be submitted until 9th January 2019. Applications will be assessed on grounds of originality, innovation, reliability, reduction of emissions, and improvements in energy output.
The winner is announced during the award ceremony at GeoTHERM expo & congress.
The Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award is an initiative from EGEC Geothermal in collaboration with Messe Offenburg, organisers of the GeoTHERM expo & congress.
For any additional information, contact the EGEC secretariat at egia@egec.org.
Eligibility of the entries
The competition is calling for projects, processes, products and initiatives from European companies, entities, or organisations across all value chain and geothermal applications, provided that they are located or have operations within Europe.
The entry can cover a new concept or the development of an existing process or product to provide an innovative and sustainable approach, developed or released within the previous year. Benefits, improvements and reliability of the innovation should be clearly stated in the entry form.
If research projects, to be qualified as innovation, nominees should have technology readiness level (TRL), as defined by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme, of 7 or higher.
Participants can submit one innovation per entity per year. Unsuccessful applications will be eligible for nomination at future awards.
No entry fee is required.
Application process
In the first stage, the jury will review all entries received by the deadline. From these entries five innovations will be selected and announced as “endorsed nominees” ahead of the upcoming GeoTHERM Expo & Congress.
In the second stage, the jury selects the company to be awarded from the five “endorsed nominees”. This decision will be kept secret until the award ceremony during the opening session of GeoTHERM.
Only the name of innovation and the submitting organisation will be shared in the public domain in case of being shortlisted. No other information provided will be publicly disclosed.
Timeline
- 26th November 2018: Nominations open
- 9th January 2019: Closing date for nominations
- 27th January 2019: Five shortlisted candidates announced as ‘endorsed nominations’
- 14th February 2019 : Winner announced during the award ceremony at GeoTHERM
Jury:
- Miklos Antics, EGEC President, GPC IP, France
- Adele Manzella, CNR-IGG, Italy
- Sandra Kircher, Head of Trade Fairs, GeoTHERM Expo&Congress, Germany
- Javier Urchueguia, Chairman Geothermal Panel RHC ETIP, UPV, Spain
- Bruno Leray, Storengy – Group ENGIE, ETIP-DG Vice-President, France
Source: EGEC
