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Tunisia2019 EU Prize for Women Innovators: Israeli applicant among the winners
Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas announced yesterday at the VivaTech conference in Paris the four winners of the 2019 EU Prize for Women Innovators. The prize is funded under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme. The winners are Irina Borodina (Lithuania), Martine Caroff (France) and Shimrit Perkol-Finkel (Israel). The three winners all received €100 000 for their work.
Shimrit Perkol-Finkel (Israel) is the co-founder and CEO of ECOncrete Tech, a company that provides environmentally sensitive concrete products on which life can grow thereby enhancing the biological and ecological value of urban, coastal, and marine infrastructures.
The aim of the EU Prize for Women Innovators is to raise public awareness of the need for more innovation and more women entrepreneurs, to recognise the success of women in innovation and create strong role models.
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