The ‘Future Internet Award’, supported and organised by the ceFIMS project (www.cefims.eu) provides an opportunity for European national and regional Future Internet initiatives to promote their work. Initiatives can take the form of innovative products and services that will shape the Future Internet. The Award is presented every six months to the initiative judged to have the greatest potential to advance the Future Internet and whose results provide an exemplar for innovate products/services.

Member States and individual projects are invited to submit entries by describing in the attached application form the innovation in their work.

Criteria

Entries will be adjudicated on the basis of the following criteria:

������ Implementations in place

������ Involvement and contacts with industry & SMEs

������ Innovate use of technologies

������ Inclusion of local entities, citizens, communities

������ Universal usability and access

������ Contribution towards reducing the Digital Divide

������ Societal impacts

������ Environmentally friendly

������ Excellence in themed areas and/or cross-domain

������ Cross-regional and/or cross-national

Entries are invited from projects and initiatives that have recently delivered final results, as well as those which are currently running.

Adjudication

The Award’s Judging Panel comprises representatives from research, industry and public agencies. Further information may be sought before a final decision is made. The Award will be given to the best Future Internet initiative in the opinion of the judges. Further details at: www.cefims.eu/fiaward/