WINNER FOR BEST PROJECT IDEA
Project: “Time to Let Women Decide” by Anahita Malek
Professor Malek’s idea, in a very innovative way, tackles the active participation of women and the integration of gender issues in tourism policies, using social networks as a strategic way to promote and support women's participation. It has been awarded because:
- it is well structured demonstrating accordance with the EU objectives and priorities which are integration and an economy based on equal gender treatment
- it has a wide partnership which will allow reaching a wide public;
- it contributes to give decisional and policy making power to the women which will have a positive impact on the territory;
- it creates a best practice in the gender equality and will be inspiring for future activities
WINNER FOR BEST ONGOING PROJECT
Project: “AQUAENVEC - Assessment and improvement of the urban water cycle eco-efficiency using LCA and LCC by Desirée Marin
The project Assessment and improvement of the urban water cycle eco-efficiency using LCA and LCC (AQUAENVEC) received the Award for the best ongoing project as the Jury evaluated that the water management issue is a core and cross-cutting issue of urban development and management:
- this project definitely helps private and public managers in dealing with this issue;
- its important feature is the strong partnership consortium and involvement of relevant stakeholders within the target groups;
- it is of great significance for society as a whole and its best practices and results should be transferred to other regions as well;
- it provides with a concrete decision making tool to be disseminated in all the European cities, with a methodology aiming to target different contexts and situations
WINNER FOR BEST CONCLUDED PROJECT
Project: “Help" by Jordi Rovira Simon
HELP is an innovative e-medication project with a concrete improvement of Parkinson’s treatments. Starting from a quite simple hypothesis and ideas, its conception and production provide an outstanding change in patients’ daily-life:
- it has managed to solve important difficulties with two breakthrough inventions: getting the correct dosage of medication and supporting patients to remember taking medications;
- it has been performed on schedule (time);
- it delivered the outcomes and the scope has been targeted (performance);
- it stayed within the budget and the resources (costs);
- the project has a in-depth innovation factor;
- It is expected to generate a large-scale measurable effect which will improve the life of many citizens which give to this project an overwhelming added value;
- the consortium is well balanced, involving remarkable stakeholders both from Research providers and Large Companies, showing a strong Research and Academia partnership approach
