award

DesignEuropa 2023 call is open till 10 March 2023.

The DesignEuropa Awards celebrate excellence in design and design management among holders of Registered Community Designs (RCDs). Organised every two years by the EUIPO, the awards are divided into three categories:

• The Industry Award
• The Small and Emerging Companies Award
• The Lifetime Achievement Award

Applications for the Industry Award and the Small and Emerging Company Award

The EPO has named 13 outstanding inventors or teams as finalists of the 2022 European Inventor Award. The prize celebrates their genius and creativity, and recognises their contributions to a brighter and more prosperous world. With eight women named finalists and multiple inventions in green technologies, the 2022 Award also reflects progress and positive societal change. The winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony on 21 June.

The European Innovation Council (EIC) launched the ninth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations, to inspire more women to follow their footsteps.

Tõnis Reitalu, a sixth-grader at Lümanda Basic School, was awarded the WIPO Schoolchildren’s Prize as well as the Estonian Patent Office’s Special Prize. The name of her work was “Smart mailbox”.