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The European Prize for Women Innovators 2023-2024 competition is open for applications

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The European Prize for Women Innovators celebrates women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations, so that they may inspire other women and girls to follow in their footsteps.

In the 2023-2024 edition a new category has been added to the two existing categories, the EIT Women Leadership category. The first two categories, Women Innovators and Rising Innovators categories, will be funded and managed by the European Innovation Council and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Executive Agency (EISMEA) and the third category by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT).

  • Women Innovators category: three prizes of 100.000 euro, 70.000 euro and 50.000 euro are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications. All information on this category can be found in the call topic page F&T portal
  • Rising Innovators category (under the age of 35): three prizes of 50.000 euro, 30.000 euro and 20.000 euro are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications. Call topic page F&T portal 
  • EIT Women Leadership category: open to those with a direct link to the EIT Community or one of the existing Knowledge and Innovation Communities. The winner is awarded 50.000 euro, and two runners-up are awarded 30.000 euro and 20.000 euro. Call topic page F&T portal

The call for applications is currently open and will close on 27 September 2023 (17.00 CET).

More information can be found also on the EIC webpage on European Prize for Women Innovators and in the EITEIC news articles  

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