European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010

Safety and security in the logistics and transport sectors

Starting Position
Forum SatNav MIT BW believes in the enormous economic potential satellite navigation presents, especially for Baden-Württemberg. The forum focuses on the development of applications and services based on navigation, information, and communication technologies. In particularly, it seeks to support small and medium-sized companies in launching innovative products and services, as well as in the creation of strategic alliances, cooperations, and partnerships. Furthermore, the association considers itself a platform for opening up new fields of business. It is open to all organisations connected to the field of satellite navigation. The association also represents the interests of its members at the political level. Among its further goals are the advancement of scientific and entrepreneurial competence in satellite navigation and mobile IT, and, by extension, the development of new business models. Additionally, the association wants to bring research and the economy closer together in order to create a network of companies and research institutions.

Objectives
Forum SatNav MIT BW is participating for the second time with a special topic prize for safety and security in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010. All interested companies, research institutions, and stakeholders are asked to hand in their submissions.
Several criteria have been defined for the prize; submissions to be shortlisted should:

involve an innovative solution, application, and/or process from the areas of satellite navigation and mobile IT
be market-ready and oriented along the value chain
feature either an enhancement of an existing solution or a radical innovation

Prize
The winner of the call for safety and security in the logistics and transport sectors will be awarded more than just one prize:

The first prize will be the chance to present his/her idea at the fifth National Galileo User Conference staged by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development in Stuttgart on 3rd of November 2010. The winner will also get a free two years membership in the Forum for applied satellite navigation and mobile IT as well as a business coaching, in which the Forum will establish the contact to a venture capitalist for the winner. Last but not least the winner will get a small prize pool full of software licenses of software developed by members of the forum (for example a developer license of the software sphinx open by in-integrierte informationssysteme GmbH (www.in-gmbh.de) with a value of 5800 � or a license of the software TourExplorer and MagicMaps2Go by MagicMaps GmbH (www.magicmaps.de) with a value of 200 �).