📋 Tender Overview
Make real laboratories visible recognize innovative ideas and encourage new laboratories - these are the goals of the competition Innovationspreis Reallabore Test Rooms for Innovation and Regulation which the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has launched today. Companies and research institutions can apply with planned current and completed real laboratories until 19 February 2020.Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier Real laboratories have an important significance for the innovation location Germany. Creative companies administrations and researchers are testing in real laboratories what was unthinkable years ago autonomous vehicles for example new solutions for telemedicine or public administrations. Real laboratories help us understand which rules the digital world of tomorrow needs. Far too often the projects remain hidden although we could learn from them. We want to change that by honoring outstanding ideas and projects and drawing the attention of courageous thought leaders who deserve it.Real laboratories are temporally and often spatially limited test rooms in which innovative technologies or business models are tested under real conditions. Real laboratories often require exemptions or the use of experimental clauses and provide important insights into whether and how the legal framework needs to be developed further.The prize is awarded across technology and innovation and is divided into three categoriesCategory Outlook ideas for real laboratoriesCategory Insights Real laboratories in the implementationCategory reviews Completed real laboratoriesAn independent expert jury selects three winners for each category. Central criteria are the benefits for the further development of the respective legal and regulatory framework and the model character of the real laboratory. The winners of the competition will be honored in a ceremony in the early summer of 2020 and presented to the public. All awarded real laboratories are entitled to wear the label Reallabore - Test Rooms for Innovation and Regulation. Companies administrations and research institutions can apply until 19 February 2020 at the following link www.innovationspreis-reallabore.de .In parallel the Federal Ministry of Economics implements the funding initiative Reallabore der Energiewende during which Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier announced the 20 winners of the corresponding ideas competition in July 2019. In these projects future-oriented energy technologies are being tested under real conditions and on an industrial scale. Real laboratories of the energy transition are excluded from an application for the Innovationspreis Reallabore Testrume fr Innovation und Regulierung.
