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SkySails managing director Stephan Wrage was the winner of the DVZ logistics journal’s LEO Award in the category innovation awarded at a gala event held at the Curio-Haus in Hamburg on 12 September 2008. Awards were also presented to the winners in the categories Entrepreneur, Newcomer, Innovation, Manager and Person of the Year, as well as Lifetime Logistics Achievement.
LEO stands for Logistics Excellence Optimization and, unlike all other industrial awards, was created as a personal award for outstanding accomplishments in the field of logistics. It recognizes those individuals who have stood out through extraordinary achievements, exceptional social involvement or groundbreaking ideas.
The winners of the first Clean Tech Media Awards were honored on 21 August 2008. SkySails took the prize in the Technology category, while co2online gGmbH won for Sustainability and camera legend Michael Ballhaus received the award in the category Culture and Media.
The Clean Tech Media Award is a public award that honors two groups of people. The first are inventors and entrepreneurs from Germany who have developed exceptional innovations in the field of environmental engineering and technology. The second group are media personalities who advocate the practical use and benefits of climate-friendly technologies.On 29 November 2007 SkySails became the only German company to be awarded the title of Technology Pioneer 2008 by the World Economic Forum.
The Technology Pioneers program is the World Economic Forum's means of identifying and integrating those companies around the world that are involved in the design and development of new technologies. Each innovation, whether it has large or small consequences, is another step in society's attempt to harness, adapt and utilize technology to change and improve the way business and society operate.
The Technology Pioneers are innovator companies that are developing and applying the most innovative and transformational technologies. Their cutting-edge work represents an enormous resource of entrepreneurial talent. This dynamic group is at the forefront of change in the sectors of biotechnology, health, energy and environment and information technologies.
Every year the World Economic Forum recognizes between 30 and 50 companies as Technology Pioneers. So far 391 companies from around the world have been conferred the title.SkySails was awarded the German Solar Prize 2007 in ceremonies held in the Alte Brüderkirche in Kassel on 6 October 2007. The German Solar Prize is an award from EUROSOLAR e.V, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and one that has been presented annually since 1994 to communities, companies, individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the use of solar energy in all its available forms. Different prize categories recognize extraordinarily innovative projects and initiatives involving the application of renewable energy.The Foundation for Labor and the Environment of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IGBCE) recognized SkySails with its Environment Award 2007.
The award-winners were the companies Bionade GmbH, SkySails GmbH & Co. KG and Geohumus International GmbH & Co. KG. This year these environment awards, which have been presented for the tenth time, recognized start-ups that are making a practical contribution to safeguarding the environment and to sustainable development. This year’s awards ceremony was held at the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop.The European Environmental Press (EEP) presented SkySails the Silver EEP Award 2007.
The purpose of the EEP Award is to recognize the efforts of those European companies that are improving the environment with their innovative environmental technologies. Three awards are presented: gold, silver and bronze.
The EEP is a Europe-wide association of sixteen environmental magazines. Each member is considered the leader in its country and is committed to building links between 400,000 environmental professionals across Europe in both the public and private sectors. The EEP is unique in bringing together the leading national business-to-business magazines as an expert network for the dissemination of high-quality environmental information throughout Europe.In the course of the 11th Future Congress in Kronberg / Taunus on June 12th, 2007, SkySails received the "Zukunftsaward 2007" (Future Award 2007) in the category "Best Product Innovation". The SkySails-System initially had been nominated for the category “Best Prototype”, the jury however was strongly convinced of the SkySails technology and the market maturity of the product so that they unanimously decided to honour SkySails as "Best Product Innovation".
The Future Award was initiated by the "Zukunftsinstitut" (Future Institute) in cooperation with the German (business) magazines "Der Handel", "brand eins" und "Max", as well as the communication service provider 1 & 1. It is the main objective of the award to recognize companies with outstanding pioneering spirit that strategically take up current trend developments and translate them into innovative solutions and products for their customers. The conclusive coherence between societal change and market solutions is the main criteria for this innovation award. During the „deGUT Deutsche Gründer- und Unternehmer Tage 2007“ (German Founders and Entrepreneurs Days 2007), SkySails was awarded the KfW enterprise award „GründerChampions“ for the federal state of Hamburg. As one of 16 federal winners, SkySails stood up to more than 260 young German enterprises from all industry sectors.
The KfW enterprise award honours entrepreneurs who have successfully implemented their business ideas in the past few years and thus proven initiative, commitment and entrepreneurial talent. Furthermore this prize aims at encouraging yet undecided people with clever ideas to set up their own businesses. The KfW-Mittelstandsbank (KfW SME bank) and Audi are among the partners and main sponsors of this award.On an international level, SkySails was awarded the Red Herring 100 Europe Award of the Red Herring innovation magazine. The Red Herring 100 Europe list annually specifies the 100 most promising start-up companies in Europe.
Ever since its first publication in 1996, CEOs, investors and analysts have been consulting the Red Herring 100 list in order to discern promising investment opportunities. Companies such as Google, Ebay and Skype were discovered in their beginnings by the Red Herring editors and identified as companies that have the potential to change our everyday lives. SkySails has won the Peixe Verde Ideas Contest in Spain. Peixe Verde is an organization that was founded by fish-trawler owners two years ago for the purpose of finding technical solutions that can reduce fuel consumption aboard their vessels and for preserving the Spanish fishing industry whose very existence is threatened by high fuel costs.
The goal of the contest, which is organized by the CETPEC Fisheries Technology Center and sponsored by the IDAE Institute for Diversification and Energy Savings and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, is to generate innovative ideas for reducing the energy consumption of fishing vessels.As the winner of the “Innovationspreis“ presented by the TV-show “Welt der Wunder“ and RTL II , SkySails won a Honda hybrid car as first prize. The “Innovationspreis“ is awarded to people, companies and organisations whose visions and work are exemplary for the innovative strength of Germany.As one of the five finalists in the category start-up of the 27th round of the “Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft“ (Innovation Award of the German Economy), SkySails received the award presented by Michael Glos, patron of the award and German federal minister of economics and technology, at a gala in the “Alte Oper“ in Frankfurt/Main. The award ceremony was hosted by TV presenter Reinhold Beckmann.
The renowned jurors on the panel around Physics Nobel laureate Klaus von Klitzing and Head of the Fraunhofer Institute Hans-Jörg Bullinger agreed that the quality of the submitted proposals was altogether extraordinarily high. Next to SkySails, the companies Carl Zeiss SMT, Varta Microbattery and Cytonet – among others – were honoured.
The “Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft“ was founded in 1980 by the Wirtschaftsclub Rhein-Main and has been announcing its call for proposals on a national level since 1983. The 27th round took place in cooperation with the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche. The consulting firm Accenture, the car manufacturer Opel and the energy supplier EnBW are the sponsors of the award. SkySails has been chosen as “Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas 2007“ by the initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas“. In a Germany-wide competition, 365 companies were chosen from more than 1.500 application to represent the innovative strength of Germany on one particular day in the year 2007 as selected landmark.
SkySails will present its ideas and innovations to the public on August 30th, 2007. In addition to that, SkySails was chosen by this initiative to present its technology on the 6th of July in the course of the G8-Summit in Kühlungsborn.
The initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas“ was launched in 2006 with the aim of highlighting the strengths and assets of Germany as a business location in international comparison by pointing out outstanding ideas. German president Horst Köhler is the patron of the initiative. On the occasion of the EXPO 2005 in Japan, SkySails was awarded the “Global 100 Eco-Tech Award” on September 1st, 2005. The “Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition” presented this prize endowed with 7,000 Euro which honours the 100 best technologies that contribute in an innovative way to solving global problems concerning natural resources. Along with SkySails, technologies such as the hybrid car Toyota Prius were also awarded the “Global 100 Eco-Tech Award”.SkySails founder Stephan Wrage was honoured as "The Outstanding Young Person 2004" (TOYP) in Japan for the development of the SkySails idea. On this occasion, Stephan Wrage was invited for a private audience with the Japanese Emperor.In the competition for the „7. Innovationspreis des Senats der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg” (7th Innovation Award of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), SkySails was awarded with a Special Innovation Award 2004 for its groundbreaking towing kite propulsion system.
The award was initiated by the Hamburg Economics and Labour Authority (Behörde für Wirtschaft und Arbeit), the Hamburg Chamber of Trade and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce with the aim of honouring small and medium-sized enterprises whose innovative ideas and developments in the areas of production processes, products and services are prime examples for the innovative potential of Hamburg as a business location.
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