The overall winner – the GALILEO Master – will be chosen from the regional winners and the special topic winners. The main prize will be a grant of EUR 20,000, awarded by the Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) and the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA). In addition, the GALILEO Master will get the chance to enter a six-month incubation programme in his favoured region to realise his idea.

The winner of the prize will have the opportunity to realise his/her idea at a suitable incubation centre of his/her choice within the EU27 for six months, with the option of an additional six months based on evaluation after the first period.*

T-Systems, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), will assist the winner of the GMES Masters in getting the awarded project off the ground.
T-Systems will support the winner in realising an innovation project, which could lead to a longterm partnership. ESA may provide technical expertise and business development support at one of four ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs).

ESA is looking for ideas that can be implemented immediately and quickly nurtured into a profitable business with the technical and financial assistance of an ESA business incubator. Along with this extensive support package, the winner will also receive a EUR 10,000 award.

The winner will receive a voucher for five man-months of DLR services (an equivalent to EUR 50,000 value) in the further development of his idea, such as feasibility studies, concept studies, and prototype or business development. The prize, therefore, leads to direct implementation.

• A 12-month incubation programme that consists of one year of free access to NAVTEQ map data, content and services (please register and download the competition tender for details)
• The incubation programme will assist the winner of the NAVTEQ special topic prize with coaching, technical and business development support, and web promotions through NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D)
• A personal technical consultant will assist in seeing the winning idea through to successful implementation
• The opportunity to present the final application to NAVTEQ partners and customers, including leading handset manufacturers, platform and technology providers
• The prize is worth in total approximately €75,000.

KIS4SAT will provide 10 days of work with an individual coach to be selected by the winner from within the KIS4SAT consortium. The coach will e.g. consult on IPR issues, technological feasibility and business plan in order to prepare the application to a suitable incubation programme as offered by ESNC partner regions. In addition Awapatent AB, one of the leading IP-firms in Europe, will provide patent consulting worth EUR 8,000 aiming at filing a patent for the nominated idea. Furthermore the Universität der Bundeswehr München will sponsor a ticket for the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2011, worth EUR 650,- .
2nd prize: The Universität der Bundeswehr München will provide the first runner-up with a free-of-charge ticket for the ESA International Summer School on GNSS 2011.

The GNSS Living Lab Prize will be awarded to three winners, who will get the opportunity to conduct a “reality check trial” in a suitable Living Lab with the involvement of relevant user communities and potential future customers. The nominated innovators will thus benefit from the validation of their ideas, the user-oriented engineering of their products and services, the development of their entrepreneurial team and the intensifying of their network of industrial relationships.
In addition the three winners will receive prize money of EUR 10,000 each.

The organiser will award three different prizes worth a total of approximately EUR 40,000. Each prize consists of a full one-year paid residency at one of the regional incubation centres (Bordeaux or Biarritz) including continuous coaching, complementary training, and access to public funding and private venture capital to successfully transform the winning idea into a great start-up.

The regional Arab MENA winner will receive a six-month incubation package at an Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) regional incubation center, or at the affi liated incubation center most suitable for the winner. This will include an appropriate level of technical and business development support, as well as the opportunity to access a pool of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists. The shortlisted participants will also have suffi cient access to technical and business strategy support and assistance. In addition, a special prize will be offered to the overall Arab MENA regional winner.

IGNSS will provide Australia’s regional winner with promotion at IGNSS events, ten days strategic consulting and other support in the Australian innovation sector.

• Prize money of EUR 5,000
• A full one-year paid residency at one of the regional technology centres, such as TTR in Reutlingen
• Targeted support for promotion, intellectual property, funding and networking
• Presentation and promotion of the winning organisation and its concept during the regional awards ceremony, with regional and national media in attendance

The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs is sponsoring a prize incubation package (valued at EUR 35,000) at the Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO).Those applying to the ESA Business Incubation Centre Oberpfaffenhofen (ESA BIC OPF) will be eligible for an additional EUR 25,000 in incentive funding from the ESA, as well as an optional loan from the local bank Kreissparkasse München Starnberg. Through your involvement in the ESA BIC OPF, you can also benefit from the technical expertise of DLR and of AZO’s extensive network.

• Consulting and/or incubation at the Instituto de Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento (Technology Institute for Development) LACTEC
• Annual subscriptions to the publications InfoGEO, InfoGNSS, and InfoGPS
• Consulting and/or incubation at Atech Foundation (to be confirmed)

• Expert consulting: advice, monitoring, business plan design, IP protection
• Specialised business training courses held by prestigious entities like IESE (MBA)
• Possibility of attending a one-week course on the MIT if selected as the best entrepreneur of the year
• Access to infrastructure such as meeting rooms, teleconference equipment, etc.
• Access to public-private venture capital

The regional winner will receive a EUR 5,000 prize from Hessen-IT, the action initiative of the Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport, and Urban and Regional Development in the ICT sector. In addition, the Centre for Satellite Navigation Hesse (cesah) will support the winner with coaching and expert consulting to help them prepare their application for ESA Business Incubation. cesah is a partner of the ESA Business Incubation Initiative and is located in the direct vicinity of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.

MATIMOP will provide Israel‘s regional winner with strategic consulting, tailored promotion and public representation services, and other support in the Israeli innovation sector.

Lithuania’s regional winner will be provided with facilities and services at one of the country’s incubation facilities, such as the Science and Technology Park in Sunrise Valley, Vilnius (conditions may slightly differ).

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) is offering a EUR 10,000 prize to Lombardy’s regional winner. Navigate Consortium will provide six months of free offi ce space in Milan and 10 days of consulting to the entrepreneur(s) behind the best proposal.

The winning application will undergo a tailored six-month incubation phase at facilities in the Madrid region. This start-up programme, which takes advantage of the madrimasd system and the Madrid Science &Technology Parks and Clusters Network – Madridnetwork, will include free offi ce space, infrastructure, and telecommunications, as well as a marketing budget and 10 days of coaching. The aim of the programme is to accompany entrepreneurs through the pre-seed phase, as well as the initial founding and growth of their company.

Six months of free office space in Sophia Antipolis and 10 days of consulting in order to establish and develop the winning project.

GAUSS – the Galileo Centre for Safety-critical Applications, Certification and Services – will award a prize money of EUR 5,000 to the Niedersachsen winner.

• Free one-year membership in Navisat e.V.
• Presentation and free display of the awarded idea at the 2nd Wo?-Congress 2011
• Free one-year subscription to GIS-Business magazine and announcement of the awarded idea in the same publication

The regional winner of Oresund will receive a 6 month support programme in the incubation center of the Innovation Center Denmark in Munich. In addition Awapatent AB, one of the leading IP-firms in Europe, will provide patent consulting worth EUR 2,000.

De CLERCQ Attorneys-at-law • Civil law notaries • Tax advisors provides legal services and has always had affinity with innovative initiatives since many of its clients are in the business of developing innovative products. De Clercq is offering a prize consisting of EUR 1,600 worth of legal support – commemorating its 160th anniversary – to the winner of the European Satellite Navigation Competition. Moreover, the winner get a free booth at the annual South Holland Knowledge Festival 2010 and consultancy assistance offered by Logica and the Netherlands Space Office valued at EUR 10,000, enabling development of the winning idea in its next step to success.

The regional winner will receive a one year free membership in clusteraviatik.ch (value CHF 1,000) and will be supported in that time by experts with respect to the preparation of the application in response to national and international ITTs, e.g. through coaching and consulting activities.

• 1st prize: EUR 10,000
  A round-trip air ticket to and accommodation in Europe for one person. (One round-trip air ticket to and accommodation in Taiwan if the first-place winner is not from Taiwan)
• 2nd prize: EUR 3,500
• 3rd prize: EUR 2,500
• Shortlists (five ideas at most): EUR 1,500 for each

For all winners in Taiwan, ITRI will provide 10 days of coaching and consulting for preparation of each respective application (valid from Dec. 2010 to Dec. 2011).

First prize: GBP 10,000 cash prize + free business incubation support with GRACE
Second prize: GBP 1,000 cash prize

The regional winner will be presented in an exclusive cover feature in the November/December 2010 issue of Inside GNSS magazine. Coverage will include photos of the winning submission and/or the creator, a profile highlighting the credentials, and, as appropriate, either an engineering case study of the winning entry or an interview with the creator. The winning entry will be presented in both print and digital editions of Inside GNSS, as well as on a special section of the magazine’s website, insidegnss.com.
In addition the USA regional winner will also receive airfare and accommodations for a free two-day consultation with the experts of the University of Calgary Position, Location And Navigation (PLAN) group as well as a US$1,000 cash prize.

• Free office space, infrastructure, and telecommunications
• A marketing budget
• Ten days of coaching

The aim of the programme is to accompany the winner through the pre-seed phase up until the founding of their company.