IDEE Sponsorship Prize
Creativity, commitment, entrepreneurial spirit, and an outstanding idea: These things should be brought forward by the entrants for the IDEE Sponsorship Prize. Our company has been awarding the prize, which has a total value of 65,000 euros, every two years to young female founders with promising business ideas from all sectors of the economy since 1997. Since 2006, the prize has also been awarded on an annual basis, alternating between the Poland and Germany.
The award for innovative female entrepreneurs supports courageous female entrepreneurs in venturing into self- employment and further developing their ambitious projects. The decisive factors for the award of the prize are aviable business concept, the degree of innovation of the business idea, the personal involvement of the founders and the number of new jobs created or to be expected.
The use of artificial intelligence, also known as AI, was the topic of the 2017 winner, Manuela Rasthofer. She was won over by the concept of her company TerraLoupe GmbH to use AI to create "world maps of information" from ordinary aerial photographs. Thanks to this data, a self-driving car, for example, knows which traffic sign is behind the next bend.