Preparations for the IFAT Gala Night on Sunday, May 4th, are entering the next round. At this event, on the evening before the start of IFAT (May 5–9, 2014), the winners of the GreenTec Awards will be announced and presented with their prizes. Over 200 projects were entered for the award, which is Europe´s biggest environmental and business accolade, and the jury has now selected its favorites. The results of public online voting are also now available – this year roughly 100,000 votes were submitted from around the world.
Organizer and host delighted with the responseMarco Voigt, the initiator of the GreenTec Awards, is pleased that "together with our partners we have been able to mobilize so many people around the world – we have received votes from across Europe, and also from Russia and China." Eugen Egetenmeir, Managing Director of Messe München, the host of this year´s Gala Night, is delighted: "This high level of international interest shows that around the globe innovative environmental technologies are becoming ever more important. The projects submitted are also evidence of the dynamic, solutions-oriented approach this sector is taking towards problems."
Nominees from across the sectorThe spectrum of this year´s hopefuls is very broad: Among the nominees are names like Continental Reifen, Danfoss and Lichtblick in cooperation with Borussia Dortmund, international start-ups such as akvolution, Tado and Pectcof, research institutions, e.g. Fraunhofer IMS and the Technical University of Dresden, as well as young inventors with projects focusing on bee-keeping on balconies, organic drinking straws and veggie hotels. For a full list of the nominees, go to: http://www.greentec-awards.com/en/competition/nominees-2014.html.
Jury session in FebruaryThe jury met in a closed session on February 25, 2014, in the Hotel Regent Berlin to decide on this year´s winners. The 60-strong jury (http://www.greentec-awards.com/en/competition/jury.html) includes representatives from well-known association and societies, as well as entrepreneurs, VIPs and presenters. This year, for the first time, the entire selection process for the GreenTec Awards is being certified by the technical inspection authorities, TÜV Nord.
Commenting on his début on the panel of judges, Dr. Markus Beukenberg, Chief Technical Officer of Wilo SE, said: "What made a very positive impression on me were the lively, sometimes controversial discussions we had. My colleagues probed deeply in their search for agreement, they certainly did not take the job lightly, quite the opposite in fact. We really did struggle to reach a decision."
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IFAT IFAT, the world’s most important trade show for innovations and services in water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, takes place from May 5 to 9, 2014 in Munich. The last event attracted 2,939 exhibitors from 54 countries and 124,200 visitors from 182 countries.
About the GreenTec AwardsEurope´s biggest environmental and business accolade, the GreenTec Awards, will be presented for the seventh time, on May, 4, 2014, in the ICM – International Congress Center Munich (ICM). The host at this Gala Night is the world´s largest environmental technology show, IFAT. In the tradition of the awards, the Green Carpet will be rolled out for the 1,000 invited guests from around the world. Peter Altmaier, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks, will again be giving the welcoming address. Among the laudators and guests on stage will be Franziska van Almsick (former World Swimming Champion, and founder of an association), Rea Garvey (musician, charity founder), Stefan Gödde (presenter, ProSieben), Thomas Heinze (actor), Jana Pallaske (actress, singer) and Anastasia Zampounidis (presenter, ZDFneo). The GreenTec Awards are organized with the aim of promoting ecological and economic involvement and the use of environmental technologies. The initiators and organizers, Marco Voigt and Sven Krüger, both engineers, have put tremendous effort and enthusiasm into these awards. More than 100 partners, over 60 ambassadors and 30 exhibitors also play their part in ensuring the success of the GreenTec Awards.
Messe München International Messe München International is one of the world’s leading trade-fair companies. In Munich alone it organizes around 40 trade fairs for capital and consumer goods, and key high-tech industries. Each year more than 30,000 exhibitors and around two million visitors take part in the events held at Messe München, the ICM – Internationales Congress Center München and the MOC Veranstaltungscenter München. The leading international trade fairs of Messe München International are all FKM-certified, i.e. exhibitor and visitor numbers and the figures for exhibition space are collected in line with agreed standards and independently audited. In addition, Messe München International organizes trade fairs in Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South America. With six subsidiaries in Europe and Asia and more than 60 foreign representatives actively serving over 90 countries, Messe München International has a worldwide business network. The Group also takes a pioneering role as regards sustainability: It is the first trade-fair company to be awarded energy-efficiency certification from the technical inspection authorities TÜV SÜD.
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