e-Skills Week competition winners announced

The e-Skills Week competition winners.

As part of e-Skills Week 2010, a competition was launched to reward young people and teachers who demonstrate a commitment to ICT and excellent digital skills.

European finalists from the Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom were invited to attend the award ceremony organised on 5 March 2010 in the e-Skills week closing event  “Go DigITal!”.

The selection criteria looked at how the candidate projects and nominees had achieved innovation and excellence in their field, but also how the use of ICT could have a positive impact on society. The objective was to identify examples of good practice on how the use of ICT can benefit not only individuals, but also schools, young entrepreneurs, job-seekers, people with special needs and society as a whole.

Representatives from ACER, CEPIS, CISCO, European Schoolnet, the European Employability Alliance and Hewlett Packard presented the awards to the following lucky winners and runner-ups.
 
e-Skills Prize for Entrepreneurship & e-Skills, sponsored by CISCO

Winners: Cezar Ursan and Adrian Brudaru, Romania
Runner-ups: Kirsty Knowles, Maeve Claire McCambridge, Ciara McCann, Ireland
 
e-Skills Prize for ICT in Education, sponsored by ACER

Winner: Evangelos Koltsakis, Greece
Runner-up: Maria del Carmen Rodríguez García, Spain
 
e-Skills Prize for Employability and Vocational Training, sponsored by European Employability Alliance, EEA

Winner: Augusto Lima, Portugal
Runner-up: Weronika Pielas, Poland
 
e-Skills Prize for Digital Competence, sponsored by Hewlett Packard

Winner: Jeroen Van Gorsel, The Netherlands
Runner-up: Toby Henness, United Kingdom
 
e-Skills Prize for Digital Competence – Women, sponsored by CEPIS

Winner: Anna Voríšková, Czech Republic
Runner-up: Louisa Luciani, Sweden
 
e-Skills Prize for Digital Expression, sponsored by European Schoolnet

Winners: Boyd Winkelman and Jorrit Tromp, The Netherlands
Runner-up: Maximum Ciprian and team, Romania

Read more about the winning projects
http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/web/guest/competition-winners