Ericsson Innovation Awards, 2016

The Ericsson Innovation Awards (EIA) 2016 have officially started. The Ericsson Innovation Awards is a global competition that gives students the opportunity to develop innovative ICT ideas in collaboration with Ericsson experts.

The theme for EIA 2016 is the future of city life. The competition is therefore focused on ideas that use ICT to improve the quality of urban life and to ensure that tomorrow’s cities are creative, connected and sustainable places to live and work.

The ten teams will each work with two selected Ericsson experts to develop a minimum viable product (MVP). Four teams will be chosen by the jury to participate in the EIA 2016 grand final in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Eligibility
- To be eligible to be part of a team participating in the student category – such person (“student”) shall be a student of higher vocational and academic studies;
- A student may be prohibited/suspended from participating in the contest if Ericsson, at its sole discretion, reasonably believes that such party has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the contest by, inter alia, cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices, providing false or misleading information, or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other participants in the contest, Ericsson or associated agencies, or if the student infringes any intellectual property right;
- Each student must have reached legal age of majority in the country in which he/she is residing;
- A student may not be resident in Puerto Rico, Quebec in Canada or in any other country where prohibited by applicable law. Ericsson reserves the right – at any time – to exclude countries if in Ericsson’s opinion there are or may be any kind of legal obstacles to participation, with the consequence that any team member residing in such country will be automatically suspended from the contest;
- Employees of any company within the Ericsson Group and/or their immediate family members are not entitled to participate in the contest.

Prize
The cash prizes are just one aspect of winning the Ericsson Innovation Awards this year:

- First prize: EUR 25,000;
- Second prize: EUR 15,000;
- Third prize: EUR 1,000;
- Fourth prize: EUR 1,000.

Further details:
http://www.mladiinfo.eu