Awards

Regional competition final in Vienna, September 29-30, 2016

Authors of three best awarded articles on a local level, together with jury members, will go to a study trip to Siemens in Vienna and attend CEE gala award ceremony.

During their visit they will have an opportunity to see company’s latest technological achievements in Aspern – Vienna’s Urban Lakeside. At 240-hectares, Aspern is one of Europe’s biggest urban development projects, a new city in which buildings, the electrical grid and the electricity market are networked to create and evaluate synergistic efficiencies. It represents a world-class living laboratory in which energy-saving technologies and new distribution grid solutions can be tested and optimized according to the requirements of future electricity markets. Please find more information on the official Aspern web site: http://www.aspern-seestadt.at/en

CEE gala award ceremony, where the three best articles on the regional level will be selected, will take place in the Siemens City. Siemens City is headquarters of Siemens Austria and a working place for 6,000 local employees. A sustainable design, environmentally friendly building technology and plenty of green spaces make Siemens City in the north of Vienna a real green building. You may peak in via virtual tour http://www.siemens.at/panorama/

Study award trip for the three CEE winners

Overall winners, three best journalists whose articles gained the highest awarded score on the regional level, will have an opportunity to visit the Crystal – A Sustainable Cities Initiative by Siemens, during the three day study award trip to London.

The Crystal is home to the world’s largest exhibition on the future of cities, the world’s most sustainable events venue, and office space for global engineering powerhouse Siemens. Siemens opened the Crystal in 2012 as a global hub for debate on sustainable living and development. Nowadays, the Crystal sets the benchmark for sustainable building design, while Siemens technologies throughout the building ensure the highest energy efficiency and CO2 standards are met.

During this trip our regional winners will have unique opportunity to see how Siemens sustainable technology can help cities to solve many challenges they face, while reducing environmental impact.