ERCI Innovation Awards 2020 – Regulations

Article 1: Purpose

The ERCI Innovation Awards 2020 are intended to promote innovations implemented by enterprises to meet the needs of the railway sector in Europe (freight and passengers).

The Awards are organized by ERCI (European Railway Clusters Initiative), the European network of Innovative Railway Cluster.

Two categories of enterprises will be awarded: one SME and one Large Enterprise.

After the determination of the winners in the SME and Large Enterprise categories, the Jury will award one special prize “Coup de Coeur” among the remaining applicants.

Article 2: Rules to apply and criteria

2.1 Rules to apply and eligibility criteria

Applications must present innovation developed and close to be commercialized or already commercialized (TRL >6).

Candidates for the Awards must send by email their applications filled in English to the cluster of the country or region in which their entity is located according to the regulations in that specific region or country.

Candidates must send the application form (maximum 2 pages in word format and 5 slides in ppt format) as well as additional documents to illustrate the innovation presented to the jury (photos, certification reports…) with reminder of the entrant's identity and the name given to the equipment presented.

The individual member clusters of ERCI will determine a maximum of three (3) nominees for the ERCI Awards out of the applications according to their local rules.

The individual member clusters of ERCI must send the applications of their nominees to the organising cluster for the Awards, for 2020 this being “i-Trans” – France.  All applications must be sent by e-mail and are to be received by i-Trans no later than 12th June 2020, 24:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time). All applications must be directed to contact@i-trans.org.  

For further information, please contact gerencia@railgrup.net