European IST Prize

The European IST Prize (EISTP) is the most distinguished European Prize for innovative products and services in the field of Information Society Technologies. 

The Prize at a Glance

Organised by Euro-CASE with the support of the IST Programme, the European IST Prize is open to companies or organisations from 31 countries with an innovative IST product with promising market potential.  Applications from 420 projects from 28 countries were received by this year's 15 May deadline.

The EISTP Ceremony took place on Thursday, 2 October, and featured all twenty Winners (visit the EISTP Village) as well as:

• Erkii Liikanen, Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society, 
• Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technology, 
• Pasquale Pistorio, President and CEO of STMicroelectronics and chairman of the Executive Jury, who, as master of ceremony, will be assisted by the Italian journalist Alessandro Cecchi Paone.

Three of the Winners were awarded EISTP grand prizes, worth 200.000euros each. For further information, visit Euro-CASE's EISTP web site

Latest News and Site Additions

• 7 October: read the Commission press release on the three Grand Prize Winners;
• 17 September: download the Winners Book (pdf, 1750kB), featuring more details on the Winners and Nominees;
• 5 September: Browse the European IST Prizewinners' Zone in the Exhibition;
• 27 June: EUROCASE announces the 20 Winners of the European IST Prize! Read the press release and the Annex, which includes short details on each Winner, as well as the full list of the 70 Nominees from which the Winners were selected. More details, including links to the Winners' own sites, from EUROCASE's EISTP site;
• "EISTP: An Introduction": a short film has been added.