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Applications for the European Seal of e-Excellence for 2011 are now open to recognize ICT and digital media companies worldwide which have an excellent track record in the marketing of innovation. The European Seal of e-Excellence is widely known for promoting digital companies which have:
• Innovative products and services
• Excellent marketing practices to promote them

How to Apply
Interested companies may apply online until 31 December 2010 at the Seal website.

Awarded Annually Since 2003
The Seal has been awarded annually since 2003 by the European Multimedia Forum (EMF) and its Partner Associations at an Award Ceremony at CeBIT, the European trade show for the ICT industry. Winners of the Seal of e-Excellence are entitled to:
• Publicly display the “Seal of e-Excellence” logo in their own marketing programmes
• Free membership in the European Multimedia Forum
• Receive preferential rates for all e-Accelerator services
• Other advantages in kind from various Seal Partners and Sponsors

For more information please visit http://www.seal-of-excellence.org/

Another month is passed by and it’s again time to look for new ideas and funds! In May there are still a lot of calls which are claiming for brilliant, innovative projects in Europe. We have choosen the most interesting for you:  if you are an ICT expert or a young entrepreneur there are some opportunities waiting for you!

Beyond calls, funds and awards in our Project Development Newsletter you can find, as usual, a selection of conferences happening around Europe which deal with European Grants, ICT as well as with many other topics.

If  you want to have a quick overview of all these opportunities, download our May newsletter now! It’s free and useful: Newsletter May 2010

And in case you have some questions or suggestions, you can contact us anytime

Attended by some 100 researchers, businesses and investors, the 9th Heidelberg Innovation Forum concluded with an awards ceremony for the most compelling business ideas. Winner of the best business idea award from the Baden-Württemberg: Connected –bwcon – initiative was H2Hybrid, which was submitted by Dominik Lembke and his team from the Bavarian Elite Academy.

The bwcon award for best international business idea went to Dr. Dileep Agnihotri for his energy storage solution based on double-layer capacitors with a high energy density, which are less bulky and costly than current versions.

To support the winners in their efforts to bring their products to market, their prize is personal business coaching as part of bwcon’s “Coach & Connect+” programme. The aim of this programme is to provide targeted, industry-specific advice and assistance to new and expanding high-tech companies and founders throughout the various start-up phases – from establishing the company to expansion.

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The Winners of the European Seal of e-Excellence 2010 were announced today at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. The award honours leading European ICT and digital media companies with an excellent track record in innovative marketing of digital products and services.
Annually the European Multimedia Forum (EMF) awards the European Seal of e-Excellence to promote companies in the digital field helping the winners promote themselves in the global market place.

Margaretha Mazura, EMF Secretary-General, declared: “We are proud to be able to award again 32 winners from 13 different countries.” Dr. Mazura emphasized that “These companies are distinguished with the European Seal of e-Excellence first and foremost because of their marketing focus and because they, as a consequence, are natural job creators. More than ever, emphasis on a marketing-driven approach is one of the prerequisites for a successful and competitive ICT industry in Europe, today and in the future.”

And the winners are:
  Indie Group – BE
  Agency9 AB – SE
  Greentube I.E.S. AG – AT
  MATERNA GmbH – DE
  digital publishing AG – DE
  Core-Competence GmbH – DE
  Virtualware – ES
  Instruxion – BE
  Prezi.com – HU

Platinum Seal of e-Excellence

Gold Seal of e-Excellence

  excentos GmbH – DE
  Creativ IT – ES
  Reading Room – UK
  SEOlytics GmbH – DE
  MTA SZTAKI – HU
  Norse Solutions AS – NO
  CyberWatcher – NO
  Inxmail GmbH – DE

Silver Seal of e-Excellence

  eRevMax Inc. – UK
  wunderloop media services GmbH – DE
  posterXXL AG – DE
  TWT Interactive GmbH – DE
  Gizerbitek S.L. – ES
  TOPEX – RO
  euroSolutions GmbH – DE
  jaron GmbH – DE
  optivo – DE
  GRAAL. S.A – GR
  Telnic Limited – UK
  24/7 Real Media – US
  Werft22 – CH
  Typotex Ltd. Electronic Publishing House – HU
  RichCast – BE

MFG Baden-Württemberg was partner for this year’s Seal of e-Excellence and congratulates all winners!

If you have enjoyed our first newsletter with all the most important tipps on conferences, events and call for proposal in Europe, you can for sure not miss our second one! In two minutes you can have a quick but exhaustive overview of all the funding opportunities, awards and chance of networking happening all around Europe, without wasting time looking for them on many different websites.

So grab this opportunity and download our March newsletter now! It’s free and useful: Newsletter_Mar_2010

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It’s not so easy to be constantly up to date regarding conferences, events and calls for proposal in Europe. If many websites provide information on these topics, it’s quite harder to have a short overview on what is going on in the European Union month by month. By now, you can get all this information simply reading our monthly project development newsletter. A short, easy guide for people, SMEs and institutions looking for funding opportunities and important occasions for networking and knowlegde exchange.

The February newsletter is out now. You can download it for free here:

Newsletter_Feb_2010

Applications for the European Seal of e-Excellence 2010 are now open to award ICT and digital media companies worldwide. The European Seal of e-Excellence is known for promoting ICT digital companies with an excellent track record in the marketing of innovation, i.e.:
- innovative products and services
- excellent marketing practices to promote them.

How to apply
The period to apply for the European Seal of e-Excellence is officially open till 31st of December 2009. Interested companies may now apply online through the Seal of e-Excellence website.

A jury composed of representatives of the Partner Associations selects the winners on the basis of an open application process. The Seal Award Ceremony will take place at CeBIT, the European trade show for the ICT industry on 2nd of March 2010.

What to win
By focusing on the marketing aspects of digital products and services, the European Seal of e-Excellence helps winners promote themselves in the global market place. Winners are entitled to:
- publicly display the “Seal of e-Excellence” logo in their own marketing programmes
- free membership in the European Multimedia Forum
- receive preferential rates for all e-Accelerator services
- other advantages in kind from various Seal Partners and Sponsors.

The European Seal of e-Excelence has been awarded annually since 2003. It is organised by the partners of the European Multimedia Forum (EMF) and Digital Tender and supported by a network of digital media associations from Europe.

MFG Annual Report's cover

The Annual Report of MFG Baden-Württemberg has been assigned the Platinum Award by the international competition “2009 spotlight Awards: print, video & web communications competition“ launched from the League of American Communication Professionals. The MFG has been awarded with the highest prize with a score of 99/100,  beating the competition of one thousand other applicants.  The jury was particulary impressed by the overall visual design and narrative of the Annual Report as well as by the creativity and the clarity of the message, which have got the highest possible score. Here you can see the results: http://www.lacp.com/2009spotlight/8081.HTM