Rules and regulations EU Prize for Women Innovators

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind ground-breaking innovations. The prize awards women from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, whose disruptive innovations are driving positive change for people and planet.

AIMED AT

The award is open to:

• Women (this award celebrates women in all their diversity).
• Established in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe associated country
• Who have founded an innovative company registered 2 years before the year of the call for proposals

Those applying for the "emerging innovators" category must be 35 years old or younger. There is no age limit to apply for the Women Innovators category.

CATEGORIES:

• The Women Innovators prize: awarded to the most talented women innovators from across the EU and Associated Countries. The winner is awarded EUR 100 000, and two runners-up are awarded EUR 70 000 and EUR 50 000 respectively;
• The Rising Innovators prize, awarded to promising young innovators under the age of 35. The winner is awarded EUR 50 000, and two runners-up are awarded EUR 30 000 and EUR 20 000 respectively;
• The EIT Women Leadership Award, awarded to exceptional women leaders from the EIT Community. The winner is awarded EUR 50 000, and two runners-up are awarded EUR 30 000 and EUR 20 000 respectively.