The e-Skills Week 2012 Competition
 

 

To celebrate the brightest and best digital talent in Europe, e-Skills Week 2012 is very pleased to announce the finalists of the e-Skills Week Competition.

The hunt was on for young innovators and thinkers – the crème de la crème of e-Skilled youngsters and educators – who have already achieved distinction in national contests or competitions.

 
We aimed to bring this talent together across a range of categories that reflect the campaign’s priority areas, and show-case the kind of e-Skills that we believe will drive innovation and growth for Europe.
 

 

Categories and Prizes

This year’s categories for prizes represent key areas of focus for the e-Skills Week 2012 campaign. Amongst our industry sponsors this year, playing their part to reward talent, are ACER, CEPIS and Nokia, who will be awarding notebooks, funding for studies and Lumias. Additional prize packages will be offered to winners in the different categories.
 
  • ICT in education awards will go to initiatives showing how digital skills enhance the learning process and bring about innovations. This category was open to educators and to young people. Sponsored by ACER: ACER will be offering winner and runner up with the Aspire One 255 laptop, a netbook ideal for everyday computing on the go. In addition, the winner will receive a cash Prize of EUR 1,000 and the runner up of a cash Prize of EUR 500.
  • Girls in IT: for young women who have made an exceptional contribution in the ICT sector, and who can provide role models for their peers. Sponsored by CEPIS : The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) will offer an education grant of a value of €3000 for the winning entry, and €1,500 for the runner up entry. In addition, the winner will receive a cash Prize of EUR 1,000 and the runner up of a cash Prize of EUR 500.
  • Young entrepreneurship: for young people who have created a entrepreneurial endeavour through the use of ICT (either non or for-profit) - Sponsored by Nokia: Nokia generously offered Lumias phones to all the winners and runners up who attended the Ceremony. In addition, the winner received a EUR 1,500 cash Prize and the runner up a EUR 1000 cash Prize.
  •  Digital skills: for youngster with proven and outstanding technical skills in programming, software and/or application design. Supported by DIGITALEUROPE: The winner received a EUR 1,500 cash Prize and the runner up a EUR 1,000 cash Prize.
  •  Excellent research project: for young people who have achieved excellent results in research about ICT or through the use of ICT. Supported by European Schoolnet: The winner received a EUR 1,500 cash Prize and the runner up a EUR 1,000 cash Prize.

 

Results of the competition were announced ! The Prize Ceremony took place at the e-Skills Week Closing event on 30th March in Copenhagen, Denmark
 

The e-Skills Week Competition has reached reaching fruition with the announcement of 10 finalists across the five categories.

Our winners and runners up were invited to the e-Skills Week Closing Event on 30th of March, in Copenhagen; a chance for them to participate in a dynamic and exciting environment and interact with their peers, as they collect their prizes.

 
The standard of this year’s competition has been excellent, and entries have shown a high degree of creativity as well as sound understanding of technology and its application.  We would like to warmly congratulate all those who took part.
 
Winner and runner up were announced at the official e-Skills Week Closing Ceremony in Copenhagen on March 30.
 
  • ICT in Education

    Winner: Antonio Saiz Mancha for Musicatics - Spain
Runner up: Jesús Castillo Albalate for SEK & Games - Spain

  • Digital Skills
Winner: Marijonas Petrauskas for its contribution to Fizika - Lithuania
Runner up: Kimmo Koski, Petteri Lehtonen and Johannes Maliranta for Vigilis - Finland

  • Girls in IT
Winner: Afroditi Gkertsi, Eirini Kokkinidou and Anastasia Zarafidou for Beat Robotics - Greece
Runner up: Sarka Vavrova for Electronic Timekeeper - Czech Republic
 
  • Excellent Research Project
Winner: Nikolaos Avagianos, Nikolaos Vogiatzhs and their classmates  for Icaromenippus CanSat - Greece
Runner up: Nicola Greco for BrunoApp - Italy

  • Young Entrepreneurship
Winner: Luke Benson, Donnchadh Barry and Paul Mc Donagh for iCollapse - Ireland
Runner up: Per Almhorn, Vilhelm Josander and Markus Sackemark for Mobil Utbildning AB - Sweden
 
 
Eligibility
 
Our e-Skills Week Competition participants were made up from a group nominated by e-Skills Week national contact points from each of the participating countries.The e-Skills Week competition was open to nominations from participating countries until the 22nd of February 2012.

Selection Process
 
Finalists will be selected by a very distinguished jury representing education and industry.
  • Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, CEO at Serious Games Interactive
  • Carol Ann Kogelman, Communications & Policy Officer, ECDL Foundation,   representing Fiona Fanning, Secretary General at Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS)
  • Cathy Lewin, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Education and deputy director of the Centre for ICT, Pedagogy and Learning at Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Cheryl Miller, CEO at Zen Digital Europe and European Director and Technology Chair of Greenlightforgirls.org
  • Kirsten Panton, Regional Leader for Western Europe at Partners in Learning, Microsoft
  • Markus Schwertel, Senior Manager Corporate Affairs, Global Engagement Organization Europe at Cisco Systems
  • Alison Storey, European Acquisition Quality Manager at Cisco Systems