Who's Europe Best Tech Entrepreneur? And Those of Tomorrow?

The European Commission, Deloitte, European Young Innovators Forum and HUB Institute, have launched the second edition of the Europioneers Awards, a competition to reward the best European Web Entrepreneurs and their successful initiatives, as part of the EC StartUp Europe activities framework for web entrepreneurship. This Award is a unique opportunity to obtain European visibility and a strong legitimacy in the digital business ecosystem. Interested companies should apply now! 

The European Commission, Deloitte, European Young Innovators Forum and HUB Institute, have launched the second edition of the Europioneers Awards, a competition to reward the best European Web Entrepreneurs and their successful initiatives, as part of the EC StartUp Europe activities framework for web entrepreneurship. This Award is a unique opportunity to obtain European visibility and a strong legitimacy in the digital business ecosystem. Interested companies should apply now! 

    

    

The 2013 winners were Alexander Ljung & Eric Wahlforss of Soundcloud, European Entrepreneurs of the year, and Jon Reynolds of SwiftKey as Young Entrepreneur of the year. This year the EC has added two categories:  high-Growth web entrepreneur and Female Web Entrepreneur Awards.

The 2014 awards categories are: 

Web entrepreneurs can apply here : http://www.europioneers.eu/apply/

And Follow @europioneers

Selection Agenda: 

May 6th : Launching the contest & the web site @ The Next Berlin - Berlin

June 30th : Closing public application process

July 1st - September 19th : Public voting

September 24th : Short list announcement of  top 5 per category @ Unconvention - Brussels

September 24th - October 24th : Public voting

November 3^rd : Award Ceremony @ The Summit - Dublin

Winners will be elected 30% from the public and 70 % from the jury who will include digital personalities, successful web entrepreneurs, investors & business angels, industry leaders, institutional representatives.

About Europioneers  

Since 2013, the Europioneers competition has rewarded European Web Entrepreneurs. Over 1 200 nominations and 5600 votes involving 27 European countries have been registered for the first 2013 edition.  The objectives of the award are to identify and recognise successful European web initiatives to promote the role web entrepreneurs play in European society and to encourage and inspire potential entrepreneurs.

Contact:

HUB Institute - Natacha Heurtault - [email protected] - Tel: +33-6-12-23-58-60