News › 25th Inno­va­tion Award Thu­rin­gia 2022

JURY SELECTS 2022 AWARD WINNER AND ANNOUNCES LONGLIST

On Sep­tem­ber 14, the jury of the »XXV. Inno­va­ti­ons­preis Thü­rin­gen 2022« and sel­ec­ted the win­ners in four cate­go­ries and one spe­cial prize. A total of 100,000 euros in prize money was awarded. The jury named 20 ent­ries for the long­list. The win­ners will be announ­ced and the pri­zes awarded on Novem­ber 30 in Weimar.

Chai­red by Prof. Dr. Jörg Mül­ler-Lietz­kow, Pre­si­dent of Hafen­city Uni­ver­sity Ham­burg, the jury of the »XXV. Inno­va­ti­ons­preis Thü­rin­gen 2022« met. The 19-mem­ber jury of experts from busi­ness and sci­ence eva­lua­ted the appli­ca­ti­ons in the four cate­go­ries »Tra­di­tion & Future«, »Indus­try & Mate­rial«, »Digi­tal & Media« and »Light & Life«. In addi­tion, there is a spe­cial prize that honors a young inno­va­tive com­pany. A total of 100,000 euros in prize money was awarded.

The jury sel­ec­ted 20 ent­ries for the long­list. The three best deve­lo­p­ments per cate­gory were nomi­na­ted and then the win­ners of each cate­gory were cho­sen. The win­ners will be announ­ced and hono­red at the award cerem­ony on Novem­ber 30, 2022 in the Weimarhalle.

This year, 62 appli­ca­ti­ons were sub­mit­ted for the prize, which is jointly offe­red by the Thu­rin­gian Minis­try of Eco­no­mics, Sci­ence and Digi­tal Society, the Foun­da­tion for Tech­no­logy, Inno­va­tion and Rese­arch Thu­rin­gia (STIFT), TÜV Thü­rin­gen e. V. and the Ernst Abbe Foun­da­tion. In its eva­lua­tion, the jury was pri­ma­rily inte­res­ted in the degree of inno­va­tion, entre­pre­neu­rial per­for­mance, func­tion­a­lity, prac­ti­cal value and eco­no­mic suc­cess of the entries.

»We are deligh­ted that Thuringia’s com­pa­nies and rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons have ente­red the com­pe­ti­tion despite the cur­rent chal­len­ging situa­tion! In doing so, they have demons­tra­ted the high per­for­mance and inno­va­tive strength of Thu­rin­gia as a loca­tion for busi­ness and inno­va­tion,« said Dr. Sven Gün­ther, mem­ber of the STIFT Exe­cu­tive Board.

Jury chair­man Prof. Dr. Jörg Mül­ler-Lietz­kow also draws a posi­tive con­clu­sion: »In com­plex times, the cou­rage to inno­vate, the wil­ling­ness to start up, the accep­tance of respon­si­bi­lity in com­pa­nies is the spark of eco­no­mic hope. The Thu­rin­gia Inno­va­tion Award reig­ni­tes this every year and is the­r­e­fore an important com­po­nent of the Free State’s inno­va­tion eco­logy. Alt­hough the num­ber of sub­mis­si­ons has decreased slightly this year, the qua­lity of the ent­ries sub­mit­ted can be con­side­red very high, even in com­pa­ri­son with pre­vious years. The­r­e­fore, it was easy for the jury to award pri­zes at the hig­hest level. Let us sur­prise you!«

• Long­list XXV. Inno­va­tion Award Thu­rin­gia 2022: (in alpha­be­ti­cal order)
• Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, The ZEISS True Hybrid Pla­ne­ta­rium, the con­ti­nua­tion of a 100-year history, Jena
• Coach­whispe­rer GmbH, All-in-one inter­com sys­tem, Jena
• diga­des GmbH, DVISION head-up dis­play for motor­cy­cle hel­mets, Nordhausen
• FluI­Dect GmbH, Opti­cal micro­sen­sor for con­ti­nuous and auto­ma­tic detec­tion of patho­gens and micro­bes in pro­duc­tion plants to opti­mize food safety and pro­duc­tion effi­ci­ency, Jena
• Funk­werk Sys­tems GmbH, NRM‑1, Kölleda
• IAB – Insti­tut für Ange­wandte Bau­for­schung Wei­mar gGmbH, Pro­cess for the pro­duc­tion of a fast-set­ting mine­ral insu­la­ting foam for fil­ling wall con­s­truc­tion mate­ri­als, Weimar
• IAB – Insti­tut für Ange­wandte Bau­for­schung Wei­mar gGmbH, Pro­cess for the pro­duc­tion of light­weight gra­nu­la­tes from buil­ding rub­ble, Weimar
• IAB – Insti­tut für Ange­wandte Bau­for­schung Wei­mar gGmbH, Wire­less rock pres­sure sen­sor for long-term moni­to­ring of aban­do­ned mine tun­nels, Weimar
• IDloop GmbH, Pro­duct for cont­act­less fin­ger­print recor­ding for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and veri­fi­ca­tion, Jena
• IMMS Insti­tut für Mikro­elek­tro­nik-und Mecha­tro­nik-Sys­teme gemein­nüt­zige GmbH (IMMS GmbH), Sca­lable ultra­so­nic and volume flow sen­sor plat­form for opti­mi­zing energy effi­ci­ency in indus­try, Ilmenau
• JENOPTIK Opti­cal Sys­tems GmbH; Divi­sion Advan­ced Pho­to­nic Solu­ti­ons, UFO Probe® Card: Opto­elec­tro­nic probe card for PIC wafer test­ing, Jena
• jen­pneu­ma­tik & Schlauch­tech­nik GmbH, water ice blas­ting; eco­lo­gi­cal abra­sive sur­face tre­at­ment, Jena
• Leib­niz Insti­tute for Natu­ral Pro­duct Rese­arch and Infec­tion Bio­logy – Hans Knöll Insti­tute; amoe­bae as bio­tech­no­lo­gi­cal pro­duc­tion plat­form for active phar­maceu­ti­cal ingre­di­ents, Jena
• Marelli Auto­mo­tive Light­ing (Ger­many) Brot­ter­ode GmbH, DMD Module (Digi­tal Mir­ror Device), Brot­ter­ode-Tru­se­tal MARO Cof­fee Engi­nee­ring GmbH i.G.,
• MARO Model 1, Suhl
• Red­wave Medi­cal GmbH, 24h blood pres­sure mea­su­re­ment in the doctor’s office wit­hout cuff, Jena
• Strick Zella GmbH & Co.KG, WOOLPROTECT – Pro­cess for intrin­sic pro­tec­tion of wool against insects, espe­ci­ally moths, Anrode
• Ilmenau Uni­ver­sity of Tech­no­logy, Depart­ment of High Fre­quency and Micro­wave Tech­no­logy, Radia­tion pro­tec­tion eva­lua­tion of mobile phone Small­Cells by an inno­va­tive hybrid method, Ilmenau
• Thu­rin­gian Insti­tute for Tex­tile and Pla­s­tics Rese­arch e. V., Care­melt – The inno­va­tive bio-melt adhe­sive, Rudolstadt
• VST GmbH, Track­ing­Mas­ter – Auto­ma­ted per­son­nel track­ing for uni­ver­si­ties, Saalfeld/Saale

Cont­act person:
Kers­tin Heimann, Pro­ject Mana­ger Inno­va­tion Award Thuringia
Foun­da­tion for Tech­no­logy, Inno­va­tion and Rese­arch Thu­rin­gia (STIFT)
0361 78923–10 | 0163 7738974 | ed.negnireuht-tfits@nnamieh.nitsrek

Back­ground:
With a total of 100,000 euros in prize money, the Thu­rin­gia Inno­va­tion Award is one of the most highly endo­wed state inno­va­tion awards in Ger­many. The prize is awarded in the cate­go­ries »Tra­di­tion & Future«, »Indus­try & Mate­ri­als«, »Digi­tal & Media« and »Light & Life« for out­stan­ding Thu­rin­gian inno­va­tions. In addi­tion, the jury may award a »Spe­cial Prize for Young Com­pa­nies« to honor the dedi­ca­ted work of par­ti­cu­larly young Thu­rin­gian com­pa­nies and sup­port them in their fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment. The spon­sors also award a (non-endo­wed) »Ernst Abbe Prize for Inno­va­tive Entre­pre­neur­ship« to an entre­pre­neu­rial per­so­na­lity for spe­cial ser­vices to Thu­rin­gia as a sci­ence and tech­no­logy loca­tion. The high­light of the com­pe­ti­tion is the announce­ment and reco­gni­tion of the nomi­nees and award win­ners at the award cerem­ony on Novem­ber 30 in Wei­mar. The com­pe­ti­tion is jointly orga­ni­zed by the Thu­rin­gian Minis­try of Eco­no­mics, Sci­ence and Digi­tal Society, the Thu­rin­gian Foun­da­tion for Tech­no­logy, Inno­va­tion and Rese­arch (STIFT), TÜV Thü­rin­gen e. V. and the Ernst Abbe Foundation.

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