Ericsson Innovation Awards

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Will your team be the new Blendlee?

Last EIA season team Blendlee, consisting of Marcos Welker and Jolita Kiznyte’s from Germany, was the winning team of the 2015 edition.  They created a platform for self-development based on the concept of blended learning. Blendlee works to combine the possibilities of technology and human factors to meet unique user needs.

Follow their progress here http://www.blendlee.com/ and watch their video via  https://vimeo.com/143682307

They took home a top prize of EUR 25,000, fighting off strong competition from runners-up Pik-Do (USA), third-placed 132 CONNECT (India) and Bridge (Ukraine), who came in fourth place.

Are you the next Blendlee?  All the best of luck everyone in the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2016

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Vote for your favorite innovation!

Thank you all contestants for your excellent work. We are really excited to see 843 teams register for the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2016. Many great ideas to improve the future of city life came in and we are already looking forward to seeing some ideas being developed in semi-finals.

But first things first. Vote for your favorite ideas now! Public voting is now open and the jury will start to go through all submissions until the semi-final nominations on December 18.

Everyone around the world can vote for their favorite teams and ideas. One vote per team is allowed.  

Don’t forget the people’s choice award!  

The entry with most votes by December 17 midnight Central European Time will automatically make it to the semi-finals to join 9 teams selected by an Ericsson jury. Share your own contribution and vote for your favorite innovations helping them to the next stage of the competition.

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Blendee wins Ericsson Innovation Awards 2015 for their future of learning solution

Team Blendlee wins the EUR 25,000 first prize for their platform for self-development based on the concept of blended learning

Teams from Germany, India, Ukraine and USA made it to final four in Ericsson Innovation Awards (EIA)

Over 270 teams from 43 countries submitted entries

Team Blendlee, consisting of Marcos Welker and Jolita Kiznyte's from Germany, has been chosen as the winner of the Ericsson Innovation Awards for their platform for self-development based on the concept of blended learning. Blendlee works to combine the possibilities of technology and human factors to meet unique user needs.

Taking home a top prize of EUR 25,000, the winners beat off strong competition from runners-up Pik-Do (USA), third-placed 132 CONNECT (India) and Bridge (Ukraine), who came in fourth place.

In addition to the first, second and third place winners, a special Technology for Good award was given to one team in special recognition for their work in social responsibility how they used technology for a good cause. The prize was EUR 3,000.

The winners for the Technology for Good award were Tent School System team from Pakistan consisting of team leader Zulqarnain Jameel and Maryem Tanveer, Mahoor Obaid and Yasir Mustafa. The team's ultimate is to eradicate illiteracy in Pakistan by 2020 and operates in an Islamabad slum, offering free education to children who don't even have basic necessities.

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Congratulations to the EIA 2015 finalists!

Thank you everyone for participating in the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2015. We are now in the final stage of the competition with only four teams left. Congratulations to the teams that made it to the final.  

Team Bridge from Ukraine,  Team Pikdo from United States, Team Blendlee from Germany and Team 132Connect from India. 

You have made it to grand-final at the Ericsson showroom in Stockholm Sweden on April 15th. You are just one step away from winning the competition. The prizes that will be awarded are EUR 25,000 for first place, EUR 10,000 for second place and EUR5,000 for third.  

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Who will make it to the final in Stockholm?

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The ten semi-finalist team have been chosen.  Finalist announcement March 16.

Ten semi-finalists have been chosen by a mix of an Ericsson jury and an open voting process.  These are the ten teams in the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2015 semi-finals:

42 Education (4530), the Netherlands

Bridge (3960),  Ukraine

Pikdo (4448), United States

VRMotion (4075), United Arab Emirates

Blended (4112), Germany

Women Who Compute (4136), United States

HANDI'EDUC (3955), Senegal

Dimi_solution (4117), Germany,

Eagers (4462), Ukraine

132 CONNECT (4031), India (Winner open voting)

March 16 we will announce the 4 finalist teams. Those 4 teams will meet in Stockholm, Sweden April 15 for the grand final. They will compete at the Ericsson showroom for the prizes and the honor.  

The prizes are EUR 25,000 for first place, EUR 10,000 for second place and EUR5,000 for third.

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Updated! Next step – semi-finalist nominations January 26th

Right now the Ericsson jury is going through all submissions in order to find the top 9 ideas to go through to the next step. And don’t forget, the final tenth place is reserved for the peoples choice award – the idea with most votes on the EIA-site.

*Due to the large number of submissions the jury will need more time to go through them all. New date for semi-finalist announcment is set to January 26th 2015.

Going in to the semi-finals all team will continue to develop their ideas with the help of Ericsson experts. Check back to the EIA-site for more information. 

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Teams - you can still add photos!

We have seen that some teams missed to upload one or more photos. But don’t worry. All teams that submitted their idea before the deadline can still update their submission with new pictures.

So come on, let's promote your idea the best you can!

If you don’t want to make your own images you can find beautiful images online. We have collected some examples of creative common images in the links below. Please note that some of the pictures covered in this list are under a creative commons license, meaning that they are free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as the original author is mentioned.

Little Visuals http://littlevisuals.co/

Unsplash http://unsplash.com/

Death to the Stock Photo http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com/

Superfamous (requires attribution) http://superfamous.com/

Picjumbo http://picjumbo.com/

Gratisography http://www.gratisography.com/

Getrefe http://getrefe.tumblr.com/

IM Free (requires attribution) http://imcreator.com/free

Jay Mantri http://jaymantri.com/

Public Domain Archive http://publicdomainarchive.com/

Magdeleine http://magdeleine.co/

Foodiesfeed http://foodiesfeed.com

Picography http://picography.co/

  Good luck!

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Submission is closed and voting is now open!

Thank you all contestants for an excellent work. We are really excited to see more than 300 registrations for the Ericsson Innovation Awards 2015. We have seen lots of interesting ideas and are already looking forward to seeing some ideas being developed in semi-finals.

Public voting is now open and the jury will start to go through all submissions until the semi-final nominations on January 26th. 

But don’t forget the peoples choice award!

The entry with most votes will automatically go through to the semi-finals. So be sure to promote your contribution and vote for your favourite ideas

Check in to see more news and updates here on the EIA blog.