Smart Cities Innovation Awards with Le Monde

Deadline: 2018-02-25
Award: €2000
Open to: Students and StartUps**

As a company, municipality, association, student, individual, perhaps you have considered or started implementing an original and effective solution for your urban environment. Le Monde invites you introduce your project and apply for one of the Le Monde Smart Cities awards.

Smart and sustainable cities are aimed at improving services and quality of living, resilience, environmental protection, cost-cutting, and deeper democracies; they foster effective integration of information technologies all the while fundamentally drawing inspiration from the expectations and participation of citizens.

Whether it applies to an islet, neighbourhood or entire city, your project must address the issues at stake in smart and sustainable cities.

The Le Monde Smart Cities Awards wish to commend not institutions, but concrete solutions currently in development. These solutions need to stand out for their originality, effectiveness and impact on the urban area, in one of the six following areas: Cultural Action, Energy, Housing & Urban Planning, Urban Innovation, Mobility and Citizen Engagement.

Each award-winner will receive a €1,000 check, while the Grand Prize will carry an award of €2,000. Regarding the Student Special Award the winner will receive €1,500. Moreover, all winning projects will be written up in an article to be published on Le Monde's website.