European winners 2005

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Alfama: Discovery and development of anti-inflammatory drugsAPC Interactive Solutions: Multimedia internet terminal solutions for telco's
AsicAhead: develops and sells reconfigurable radio IC solutions for the mobile handheld market.
Cellfire Security Technologies: Security software for Symbian smart phones
Clear2Pay: Clarity in Payments - worldwide payment technology solutions supplier
GenSilence: Gene modulation based therapies in cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Hoverstop: Active ergonomic computer mouse
iPlato: a leader in mobile healthcare messaging services.
LaenneXT: revolutionizes auscultation best practices through innovative tele-medical applications
MCE 5: Variable Compression Ratio engine, enabling up to 50% fuel consumption and emission reduction
Polymita Technologies: Business Process Management (BPM) software platform
Simpoe: software to help plastic part designer optimize design, save material cost, shorten time to market
Vivactis: develops and applies its technology to position calorimetry as a routine screening tool

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European Selection Committee 2005

Alain André, Managing Director, CICOM Organisation, France
Lars-Olof Bäckman, coFounder & Member of the Board, Startupfactory AB, Sweden
Neil Blackley Chairman, Media Advisory Board, Apax Partners Ltd., United Kingdom
Luca Benatti, Founder & CEO, Newron Pharmaceuticals, Italy
Martin D.H. Bloom, Founding Partner, Cambridge Accelerator Partners, United Kingdom
Marc Breitfeld, Investment & Finance Director ICT, AdAstra Venture, Germany
Will Brooks, Senior Investment Manager Life Sciences, Quest Management NV, Belgium
Jon Cox, Investment Networks Manager, Oxford Innovation, United Kingdom
Philippe Crochet, Associate, Partech International, France
Walter Deffor, Partner, Cartagena Capital, Germany
Jean-Michel Deligny, Managing Director, Go4Venture, United Kingdom
Angus Ferguson, Proton Project Manager - Warwick Ventures, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Juliana Garaizar, Managing Director, Ifex Innovation Finance, France
Burton Gintell, Anthony & Cie, France
Matthew Goodsall, Associate Director, Go4Venture, United Kingdom
Sandro Grigolli, Managing Director & Partner, EonTech Ventures, United Kingdom
Roger Haiat, Chief Executive Officer, Devcor International Ltd, United Kingdom
Finn Jackson, Business Architect, Tangley Consulting, United Kingdom
Ross James, Assistant Manager, Samsung International Procurement Centre, United Kingdom
Philippe Janssens de Varebeke, Senior Investment Manager, Sopartec, Belgium
Candace Johnson, President, Europe Online Investments S.A., Luxembourg
Olivier Kleindienst, Investor Relations VP strategic alliances, Tornado Technologies, France
Wolf Kroner, Editor, BioWorld Europe, Germany
David Laskow-Pooley, CEO, Surface Therapeutics Ltd, United Kingdom
Jean-Claude Lévêque, General Partner, LC Capital, France
Seppo Mäkinen, Founder & Senior Partner, Bio Fund Management Oy, Finland
Eileen Modral, Thames Valley Investment Network Manager, Oxford Innovation, United Kingdom
Falk Müller-Veerse, Managing Partner, Cartagena Capital, Germany
John W. Mullins, Head of Entrepreneurship, London Business School, United Kingdom
Karl Naegler, Senior Associate Life Sciences, Atlas Venture GmbH, Germany
Christian Nagel, Partner ICT, Earlybird Venture Capital GmbH, Germany
Diana Nye, Executive In Residence, Ariadne Capital, United Kingdom
Tom Paffen, Partner, Residex Ventures, Netherlands
Alain Parthoens, Investment Director Life Sciences, ING, Belgium
Nick Pearch, Sophia Business Angels, France
Maurizio PetitBon, Director, European Venture Partners, United Kingdom
Manjit Rahelu, Head of Business Development, Allergy Therapeutics, United Kingdom
David Rowe, Venture Capital & Emerging Businesses, Microsoft EMEA, United Kingdom
Diana Saraceni, Partner, 360° Capital Partners, Italy
Jean Schmitt, Managing Partner, Sofinnova Partners, France
Steven Schlenker, Managing Partner, DN Capital, United Kingdom
Wim Teunissen, Corporacion Frigorifica SA, Spain
Jamie Urquhart, Partner, Pond Venture Partners, United Kingdom
Barend Van den Brande, Managing Partner, Big Bang Ventures, Belgium
Marc Wachsmuth, IVF Partners, IMEC, Belgium
Wolf Werner, Venture Partner and Senior Science & Technology Advisor, Techno Venture Management, Germany
Richard Youngman, Manager, Library House, United Kingdom

European winners 2004

Category EXPANSION: PRIMUS TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP (UK) http://www.primustel.co.uk/about_us.htm

Primus Telecommunications Group Incorporated the world’s fifth largest fixed line international telecoms carrier, has been selected as the European Winner of the EC award EUROWARDS 2004 in the category: Expansion
Primus offers bundled voice, data, Internet, digital subscriber line (DSL), Web hosting, enhanced application, virtual private network (VPN), voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), and other value-added services.
Founded in 1994, Primus has grown from strength to strength over years. With the European headquarters based in UK, Primus is in a prime position to offer excellent service and savings to our clients. Partnerships with the likes of Vodafone Corporate and Samsung have served to strengthen our ranking in the UK and the rest of Europe.
As the 6th largest overall voice carrier in the world, Primus has over 2.3 million registered users and revenues in excess to US$ 1.3 Billion. Primus has ownership interests in over 25 transoceanic fiber-optic cable systems in Europe, North and South, America, Asia-Pacific region.
Like other industry leaders, Primus delivers high-quality solutions for more than 2.1 million consumers, including small & medium enterprises and multinational businesses. PRIMUS takes advantage of global telecommunications deregulation to bring facilities-based networks and facilities-based data centers for a sophisticated line of services to manage complete E-Business and data communication needs.
Primus Mobiles was launched in September 2003 as the mobile arm of US-based Primus Telecommunications Group Incorporated. The core strategy is simply to capture mobile originating and terminating traffic through the Primus Network as more and more call traffic is generated by mobile telephony.
Our target audience is the ever-expanding segment of the market that communicates through a mobile device both for business and residential use.
Andrew Reid, Managing Director of Primus Mobiles, comments:”We’ve seen the mobile market evolve massively in the last two decades. The most recent trend is for more people to choose to use their mobile phone over their landline. Primarily for lifestyle reasons and because they are ‘on the go’, more people are choosing the convenience of mobile to make international calls.
“It’s highly likely that they are also paying their network service provider for monthly bundled packages which don’t include international minutes. The significant factor with a Primus Mobiles handset is that customers simply need to insert their existing SIM card and begin making international calls – at a competitively low rate. And keeping in touch with the growing number of people who are moving abroad to live, doesn’t have to be costly!”

Category START-UP: SEMINARPORTAL (GERMANY)

New Seminarportal for the medium-sized businesses
The market for seminarportals in the internet is surfeits. No place for a new competitor? Wrong! Since a few month’s a newcomer moves the market with a special concept. First Seminarportal.com was made for the german market. Now Seminarportal.com comes to the market in Great Britan und is planning the entrie for additional European countries
Seminarportal.com provides an internet based and independent platform for seminars to medium-sized businesses. Initially targeting the German speaking market, Seminarportal.com now addresses the market in Great Britain as well and is planning to expand to include entries for other European contries.
Via the webpage established by the Frankfurt-based Diplom-Betriebswirt (equiv. master of science in business) Lutz Lochner, companies can easily compare offers for management and business-related seminars tailored especially to the needs of medium-sized companies using an intuitive user interface. The database of Seminarportal.com contains presently approx. 5.500 seminars of different providers that encompass large institutions like the DEKRA-Akademie, but also small and specialised providers and free lance course instructors.

Category SEED: BIBLIOTECA D'ALESSANDRIA (ITALY) - http://www.bdaweb.net

Digital Library Peer-to-Peer
Biblioteca d'Alessandria is an informatic system devoted to the research and share of full-text scientific documents among scientists, on a peer to peer network, supported by a digital rights management technology
This is a totally new concept of P2P, allowing authors (or rights owners) to decide whether to condition the use of a document or not, whether to put a fee on it or not.
Like most of P2Ps, BdA (Biblioteca d'Alessandria, but also Broad Digital Archive) features a messaging service, so those researchers can talk, ask and collaborate.
Possible uses of such a system are virtually infinite; only users themselves (the researchers) will tell and find the most clever and useful ones. Though, some of them can be easily guessed, along with some direct consequences of the wide use of BdA.

Category ENCOURAGEMENT: TECNOLOG´ E INNOVACI? DEL PLTICO, S.L. (SPAIN)

DIESEL OIL through plastic recycling
The final product is diesel oil obtained through a recycling plastic process. The technical characteristics are very similar to the global aspects of the standard model. It takes a bigger proportion of “light hydrocarbons” than the usual diesel. Low sulphur content also allows the introduction of pollution-reducing system
Our diesel oil quality makes it suitable to be mixed in big quantities even in motor car –always it’s decreased the sulphur part-. It´s also useful for others kind of motor: boiler, electrical generator… The most relevant technical features into the process: it´s the only one in the European Industrial World. There are just two Japanese factories that use this kind of technology in the world. 1kg plastic/1L diesel performance is 95%.
It’s possible the use of dirty plastic without any processing in advance. It’s completely committed to environmental rules emission.

European Selection Committee 2004

European winners 2003

More than 1300 entrepreneurs have participated.

The 31 nominees selected by National Selection Committees from 9 countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Iceland, Slovak Republic, Spain) have been invited at the "Clever Networking" event in Brussels on 28 November 2003 to meet each other and benefit from an audience of 450 entrepreneurs willing to exchange ideas and share experiences during one afternoon.

The 4 European winners are, within the following four categories:

Winner of the category ENCOURAGEMENT: for promoting entrepreneurial spirit

Inoxfrost (Spain)

Inoxfrost can be considered a modern ice cube. Made of stainless steel hemispheres with multiple hexagonal facets, it offers greater and longer cooling capacity than ice whilst eradicating the possibility of infection from bacteria in water. It can be personalised with laser etching and comes with a lifetime guarantee. Inoxfrost is different from others products used for cooling. It is scientifically proven that the temperature of ice rises and it begins to melt after only four minutes whilst inoxfrost maintains an optimum temperature for over twenty minutes without “watering” the drink. We can affirm that inoxfrost has greater refrigerating properties than ice (see comparative table at www.inoxfrost.com)

Winner of the category SEED: for support during the start period of new companies

Green Diamond Traction Soles (Iceland)

Green Diamond granule impregnated shoe soles are an innovation that is a practical solution to the problem of slipping, tripping and falling; a significant improvement on the performance of a product that everyone needs; and a unique new feature that benefits the shoe industry. Research conducted on the Green Diamond technology has shown that the impregnated rubber has up to 30% more grip than standard rubber.

Winner of the category START-UP: for encouraging the development of new companies

Puron (Germany)

PUROn has developed new water filters that work on the principle of porous ultrafiltration membranes. This technology is suitable for the use in large-scale water and wastewater treatment plants and is the first of its kind in Europe. It allows to filter all particulate pollution, e.g. bacteria, viruses and potential pathogens, out of the water.

Winner of the category EXPANSION: for encouraging the innovative expansion of SME’s, and achieving break-even.

Medplant Genetics (Spain)

Medplant Genetics was formed in April 2000 as a company dedicated to pioneering research in the European biotechnology marketplace. The company was started at the initiative of promoters (scientists and clinicians, from research institutes, biotechnology companies and clinical analysis laboratories) who, aware of the continuous development of revolutionary new biotechnological tools and the new market opportunities opening up, could see the opportunities presented by such a rapidly developing sector. The company’s activities centre on the development, production and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic systems based on biotechnology.

European Selection Committee 2003

D. Antonio Carrillo Alcalá, Secretario General CONFEDERACIÓN DE EMPRESARIOS DE ANDALUCÍA (Spain)
Mr. Gaetano D'ALICANDRO, AUDITING CONSULTING (Italy)
Mr Peter Kazimirski, European Leader Emerging Companies Program, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (Switzerland)
Dr. Uffe Bundgaard-Joergensen Ph.D., CEO, GATE 2 GROWTH (Denmark-Belgium)
Mr Gunnarsson, Managing Director NEW BUSINESS VENTURE FUND (Iceland)
Dr. Bert Twaalfhoven, Chairman, INDIVERS Ltd. (The Netherlands)

European Winners 2002

Category ENCOURAGEMENT :

Winner : TANK-CAVA (Belgium - Wallonie)
2. Estar Asalvo, S.L. (Spain)
3. Mistae (Italy)
4. Surfalis Technologies (France)
5. Helisafe (Portugal)
6. GMP (Bulgaria)
7. Qualis Laboratorium (Germany)
8. Raman (United Kingdom)

Category SEED :

Winner : Multi-Scale Modeling (Greater Region)
2. Genomac International (Czech Republic)
3. Synthese a Grande Vitesse (United Kingdom)
4. Loranet (Belgium)
5. Lobitec International (Spain)
6. Moiodesign (Portugal)
7. I sapori della nonna (Italy)
8. Bonea (Bulgaria)
9. Cellubio (France)

Category START-UP :

Winner : Fluorem - Project Turb'Opty (France - Rhône Alpes)
2. Geosat (Austria)
3. Peratech Ltd (United Kingdom)
4. Xybermind (Germany)
5. Olea Cosmeticos (Spain)
6. Eyebill Interactive Solutions (Bulgaria)
7. Porcari (Italy)
8. MANY (Belgium)
9. Racing Interaction (Netherlands)
10. OkOnline (Latvia)
11. Life Quality Improvement Center (Lithuania)
12. Enarpur (Portugal)
13. Authentic Drink (Greater Region)

Category EXPANSION :

Winner : TAOSpain Interactive (Spain - AndalucÌa)
2. SecureAttachment (Belgium)
3. Point L - Bulgaria Ltd (Bulgaria)
4. QSA Limited (United Kingdom)
5. Icido (Germany)
6. Bioprofile (France)
7. Metrostav (Czech Republic)
8. Eksergija (Lithuania)
9. Transition Technologies (Poland)
10. Arquimedes (Portugal)
11. Tesi & testi (Italy)
12. Eurofa Expat (Netherlands)
13. S@FE AG (Greater Region)

European Selection Committee 2002

Honorary members :

- Sir Albert Bore, President, COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- Minister Serge Kubla, Minister of Economy, Walloon Government (B)
- Minister Jaak Gabriëls, Minister of Economy, Flemish Government (B)
- Minister Eric Tomas, Minister of Economy, Government of the Brussels Capital Region (B)

Members :

- Mr Brian A. Prime, Chairman, European Small Business Association (ESBA)
- Dr Bert Twaalfhoven, Chairman, INDIVERS & honorary chairman GROWTH PLUS
- Mr Sergio Arzeni, Director, LEED Programme, OECD
- Mr Tjark R.C. de LANGE, President, YES FOR EUROPE
- Dr Uffe Bundgaard-Joergensen, CEO, GATE 2 GROWTH
- Mr Santiago Herrero León, President, CEA
- Mr Antonio Carrillo Alcalá, Secretary General, CEA
- Mr Andreas Heuberger, Director, GRÜNDERTREFF FRANKFURT RHEINMAIN
- Mr Ian Taylor MP, Executive Director, INTERREGNUM VENTURE MARKETING LTD
- Mr Rui Gonçalves Soares, President of the Board, IAPMEI
- Mr Joël Saingré, Responsible for the Development of New Companies, CCI PARIS - DRCA
- Mrs Zlatolina Mukova, Deputy Minister, Bulgarian Ministry of Economy

European Winners 2001

Category ENCOURAGEMENT :

Winner : T.C. PROJECT (Italy - Puglia)
2. ITEQ (Belgium - Wallonie)
3. Star (France - Auvergne)
4. Arctic Organic (Iceland)
5. i Comme (France - Bretagne)

Category SEED :

Winner : TBsC Technology (United Kingdom - London)
2. MaP3 (France - Ile de France)
3. Fjölblendir ehf. (Iceland)
4. Mainframe Vortal (Italy - Lombardia)
5. Webroidery-Informática Têxtil,Lda (Portugal - Lisboa e Vale do Tejo)
6. ODEON (Spain - AndalucÌa)
7. FreakDistribucion.Com (Spain - Extremadura)
8. Troquay & Partners (Holland - East)
9. love.de AG i.G. (Germany - Niedersachsen)

Category START-UP :

Winner : UPPONETTI OY (Finland - Länsi)
2. AdaptaMat (Finland - Etelä)
3. AQZ Limited, Medical safety products (Ireland)
4. AFERYMED- Aferição e Medidas Lda. (Portugal - Centro)
5. Yourfuture.tv (Holland - East)
6. LibraGen (France - Rhône Alpes)
7. CITOBI (Belgium - Wallonie)
8. Litesafe Ltd (United Kingdom - Middlands)
9. IT Mill Ltd (Finland - Etelä)
10. NordicPhotos (Iceland)
11. Walk tall products (Belgium - Vlaanderen)
12. We and Us Ltd. (Ireland)
13. Metasite (Lithuania)
14. Infinity Ltd. (Magyar - Hungary)
15. VIA.MAR ,project - MultiCourts (Poland)
16. spiritodivino - wine@home (Italy - Friuli - Venezia Giulia)

Category EXPANSION :

Winner : STEM ALPHA (France - Rhône Alpes)
2. Strategic Thought (United Kingdom - London)
3. Competa IT B.V. (Holland - West)
4. International Software Products (Holland - West)
5. Mérytherm (Belgium - Wallonie)
6. SIA - Sociedade de Inovação Ambiental, Lda. (Portugal - Norte)
7. Dialego AG (Germany - Nordrhein - Westfalen)
8. 3 Web Marketing (Italy - Veneto)
9. ENERPAL, S.L. (Spain - Castilla y Leon)
10. Expatica Communications BV (Holland - North)>
11. Bonus-Ortho-System (BOS) (Iceland)
12. Acción Internacional de Ayuda Academica (Spain - AndalucÌa)

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European Selection Committee 2001

Honorary members:

- Mr Eric Tomas, Minister for the Economy and Employment of the Brussels-Capital Region (B)

Members:

- Mr Philippe Adnot, Senator (France)
- Mr Sergio Arzeni, Head of the OECD LEED Programme (Europe)e
- Mr Michel Franck, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (France)
- Mr Philippe Deville, Director, European Venture Capital Association (Europe)
- Mr Gerry Devlin, Managing Director and Founder, PricewaterhouseCoopers Venture Partners
- Mr Peter Jungen, President, European Business Angels Network (Europe)
- Mr Pierre Laffitte, Senator (France)
- Mr Wolfgang Mainz, President, Yes for Europe (Europe)
- Mr Axel Naeyaert, Lawyer, Eurojuris (Europe)
- Mr Rui Gonçalves Soares, President, IAPMEI (Portugal)
- Mr Frédéric Soudain, Secretary General, European Small Business Association (Europe)
- Mr Ulfar Steindórsson, Managing Director, New Business Venture Fund (Iceland)
- Mr Bruno Wattenbergh, CEO,Technopol-Brussels (Belgium)

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