Deadline: November 30, 2015 | Apply here
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Eligibility: The Ericsson Innovation Awards 2016 is an open competition for students all around the world.
Grand prize: EUR 25,000
Award ceremony/final event location: Stockholm, Sweden
The Ericsson Innovation Awards are a global competition that gives students the opportunity to develop innovative ICT ideas in collaboration with Ericsson experts. The theme for EIA 2016 is the future of city life. The competition is therefore focused on ideas that use ICT to improve the quality of urban life and to ensure that tomorrow’s cities are creative, connected and sustainable places to live and work.
Technology fundamentally transforms the ways we organize our lives, businesses, societies and life in general. In the EIA 2016 we challenge you to come with innovations that will impact the future of cities. Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas, and by 2050, about 70 percent of the world’s population is expected to reside in urban areas. This explosive growth and the rapid uptake of broadband are taking place at a time of serious economic, environmental and social challenges.
The challenge for Ericsson Innovation Awards 2016 : The future of city life
What possibilities emerge when more and more people connect? How can we create opportunities for creating better life for billions living in cities? How can we transform our cities using new technologies? What is your next big idea? Read more on what to develop and submit on the following link.
Prizes and benefits:
- First prize: EUR 25,000
- Second prize: EUR 15,000
- Third prize: EUR 1,000
- Fourth prize: EUR 1,000
- All finalists and semi-finalists will be given the opportunity to be interviewed for a possible internship or position at Ericsson
EIA 2016 is open to teams of two to four students. After registration closes on November 30, 2015, ten semi-finalists will be announced on December 18, 2015. Nine of the semi-finalists will be selected by an Ericsson jury, with the remaining place assigned by a public vote. The ten teams will each work with two selected Ericsson experts to develop a minimum viable product (MVP). Four teams will be chosen by the jury to participate in the EIA 2016 grand final in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Read the Terms & Conditions
Please reach out to ericsson.innovation.awards@ericsson.com if you experience any issues with the registration.
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