Dear Sir/Madam,

CEN and CENELEC have the pleasure to invite you to the third edition of the Standards+Innovation Award Ceremony 2021.

Launched in 2019, the aim of these awards is to acknowledge the important contribution of research and innovation to standardization and celebrate the contributions of researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to standardization.

The ceremony will announce the winners in the following three categories:

• Project Award presented to a European research / innovation project who successfully contributes to standardization.
• Individual researcher/innovator Award, presented to an individual who successfully introduces her/his research outcome or innovation into standardization
• Young Researcher Award annually to an individual student, under 30 years of age, based on the work done for academic theses, doctoral dissertations or other university research project addressing standardization. This category will be presented for the first time this year.

Best regards,

CEN and CENELEC