European Prize for Women Innovators explained

European Prize for Women Innovators (formerly European Woman Innovator of the Year) is a prize awarded by the European Union.

Laureates

2022

Women Innovators

• Rocío Arroyo, Spain
• Ciara Clancy, Ireland
• Ninna Granucci, France

Rising Innovators

• Niamh Donnelly, Ireland
• Iva Gumnishka, Bulgaria
• Mehak Mumtaz, Portugal^[1]

2021

• Merel Boers, Netherlands
• Mathilde Jakobsen, Denmark
• Daphne Haim Langford, Israel
• youth prize: Ailbhe Keane and Isabel Keane, Ireland
• Special mention prize for their achievements:
  • In the main category: Asude Altıntaş, Turkey
  • In the Rising Innovator category: Livia Ng, UK

2020

• Madiha Derouazi, Switzerland
• Maria Fatima Lucas, Portugal
• Arancha Martinez, Spain
• youth prize: Josefien Groot, Netherlands
• Special mention prize for their achievements:
  • In the main category: Cécile Real (France)
  • In the Rising Innovator category:
    • Ailbhe Keane (Ireland)
    • Rebecca Saive (Germany),

2019

• Irina Borodina, Lithuania
• Martine Caroff, France
• Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, Israel
• youth prize: Michela Puddu, Italy

2018

• 1st: Gabriella Colucci, Italy
• 2nd: Alicia Asín Pérez, Spain
• 3rd: Walburga Fröhlich, Austria
• youth prize: Karen Dolva, Norway

2017

• 1st: Michela Magas, Croatia/ UK
• 2nd: Petra Wadström, Sweden
• 3rd: Claudia Gärtner, Germany
• youth prize: Kristina Tsvetanova, Bulgaria.^[2]

2016

• 1st: Susana Sargento, Portugal
• 2nd:Sirpa Jalkanen, Finland
• 3rd: Sarah Bourke, Ireland^[3]

2014

• 1st: Saskia Biskup, Germany
• 2nd: Laura van 't Veer Netherlands
• 3rd: Ana Maiques^[4]

2011

• 1st: Gitte Neubauer, Germany
• 2nd: Fabienne Hermitte, France
• 3rd: Ilaria Rosso, Italy

Notes and References

1. Web site: EU Prize for Women Innovators 2022: the winners . eic.ec.europa.eu . European Innovation Council . 12 October 2023 . en.
2. Web site: fr . Prix européen des femmes innovatrices 2017: la Commission récompense quatre brillantes femmes entrepreneurs. 8 March 2017 . Europa.eu . 18 February 2018.
3. Web site: 2016 Contest . ec.europa.eu . https://web.archive.org/web/20170919142646/http://ec.europa.eu/research/prizes/women-innovators/index.cfm?pg=2016 . 19 September 2017 . dead.
4. Web site: fr . Prix "Femmes innovatrices" 2014: la Commission récompense des lauréates originaires d'Allemagne, des Pays-Bas et d'Espagne. europa.eu . 7 March 2014. 18 February 2018.