KIC Nominates Innovators for EIT Awards

KIC InnoEnergy, the European company for innovation, education and business creation in sustainable energy, has nominated five innovators for the 2015 European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Awards.

The winners will be announced at INNOVEIT 2015 in Budapest, Hungary on 6th May.

“Our goal is to support innovation in Europe’s sustainable energy sector, and to help it to thrive,” says Diego Pavia, the CEO of KIC InnoEnergy. “The projects KIC InnoEnergy have nominated for the awards each demonstrate fantastic, state-of-the-art thinking and a commitment to advancing sustainable growth and competitiveness in the field of sustainable energy. We wish them all the very best of luck.”

For the newly launched EIT Innovators Award, which recognises teams that have developed an innovative product, service or process in an exemplary manner with a high potential impact on society and economy, KIC InnoEnergy has nominated:

• Rajai Aghabi of EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions, a project that has developed a floating laser radar buoy with a forecast model for wind, wave and current measurements of offshore wind farms