From Oct1st 2008 you will find here on this site all detailed information about the European Industrial Ethernet Award.

We are looking forward to your particiption. best regards,

Your B&R POWERLINK Team

This international award is calling for innovative concepts, creative solutions, promising scientific papers and outstanding research projects likewise in the wide range of all engineering subjects. The only restriction is that your project needs to be based on POWERLINK, make use of POWERLINK or propose POWERLINK technology in any new favourable way

1st Place 10.000 Euro
2nd Place 5.000 Euro
3rd Place 2.500 Euro
+
All team members of the top 10 voted projects will be invited to an international event weekend in Austria

The prize money will be handed to the representative of the team and is for uncommitted use for research work at the participating department of the university.

Oct 1^st, 2008 Call for registration
Dec 22^nd, 2008 Registration deadline
April 30^th, 2009 Draft version
May 30^th 2009 Final Release

Your handed-in concepts wil be evaluated by an international jury regarding
- Technological innovation
- Creativity
- Scientific quality
- Relevance for Industry

A team may consist of any combination of students, assistant researchers and professors.
The team size is limited with 1-5 persons.

We readily appreciate any form of publication. Please feel free to register your paper on any upcoming conference or journal.
Additionally we would offer to publish some outstanding papers in various automation magazines after completion of the Award.

Please send your registration for the award to award@br-automation.com

The registration info shall include
- Name of your project or project-team
- Name and contact details (mail + phone) of the team´s contact person
- Name of other team members (if already available)
- Basic description of your project summarizing the main ideas (max. 1 page)
- information how you did learn about this award

award@br-automation.com  ... contact us for any general question regarding the Award
www.br-automation.com/award ... that is where you are.
www.sourceforge.net/projects/openPOWERLINK ... download openPOWERLINK from that site and get technical support by using the forums and mailinglists
www.ethernet-powerlink.org ... for a good introduction to the POWERLINK technology

Coming soon and will be frequently updated with questions that are of public interest regarding the Award.