Call open for the 2024 Digital Innovation Awards of Catalonia

The Association GrausTIC has opened the call for the submission of candidatures for the 2024 Digital Innovation Awards of Catalonia. This year there will be a total of eleven different categories to reward Catalan initiatives, professionals, companies and institutions that excel in their innovative use and promotion of ICT.  Regardless of their central location.

These awards seek to highlight the efforts made to transform Catalonia as a digital benchmark. They therefore point to any innovation with a significant impact on the social and industrial fabric. And they aim to boost exports and promote social responsibility.

Any initiatives wishing to take part can submit their candidatures via this form. The deadline for sending them is 15 October. The awards will be presented to the winners within the framework of the ICT in Catalonia Day, an event set to be held on 13 and 14 November at the Montjuïc Communications Tower.

The co-organising bodies and the award categories

This year’s awards have incorporated four new categories of digital innovation: mobility, health, industry 4.0 and local administration projects.

The Digital Innovation Awards of Catalonia are co-organised by the TIC Salut Social Foundation, the iSocial Foundation, the Efficient Energy Cluster of Catalonia, the Localret Consortium, the Barcelona Free Zone Consortium, Fira de Barcelona, the BCN Port Innovation Foundation of the Port of Barcelona, the Bit-Habitat Foundation of Barcelona City Council, the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation, the Secretariat of Digital Policies of the Ministry of Business and Labour of the Government of Catalonia, Tech Barcelona and the GrausTIC Association.

Each of these organisations promotes an award category linked to its field of action. The applicants can present their candidatures in the category best suited to their initiative. The different categories this year are as follows:

• Award for Digital Innovation in Health (co-organised by the TIC Salut Social Foundation): this award rewards capacity for innovation in the application of ICT to the Digital Transformation and the creation of new products, services and solutions focused on people’s needs, as well as the creation of value in the Health ecosystem and integrated social and health care.

• Award for innovation in local administration projects (co-organised by the Localret Consortium): this award rewards the initiative of a local administration that has excelled above others when it comes to introducing innovative improvements into the area of city councils and municipalities through ICT.

• Award for Digital Innovation in the Urban Area and Public Space (co-organised by the Bit-Habitat Foundation of Barcelona City Council): this award rewards the initiative that has excelled above others when it comes to introducing innovative improvements into the area of cities and public space through ICT.

• Young Digital Entrepreneurship Award (co-organised by Tech Barcelona): this award rewards the ability of one or more people under the age of 35 who have demonstrated outstanding entrepreneurship when launching an innovative business initiative in the field of ICT or one based mainly on its use. Initiatives with a maximum age of three years are eligible for the award.

• Smart City Award for digital innovation in mobility (co-organised by Fira de Barcelona):this award rewards the company that has excelled when introducing digital innovation into the field of urban mobility to achieve significant improvements in terms of efficiency, quality and sustainability.

• Award for Social Integration through Digitization (co-organised by the iSocial Foundation): this award is presented to the company, organization or institution which, over the last calendar year, has contributed most to the promotion of social integration. By making its products, services, projects or activities accessible to everyone by means of the new technologies or through the design and development of innovative digital tools for the social integration of vulnerable people and collectives.

• Industry 4.0 Innovation Award (co-organised by the Barcelona Free Zone Consortium): this award rewards the project which, in the last calendar year, has excelled in its innovation when it comes to integrating advanced digital technologies into its production processes in the Industry 4.0 area.

• Award for Efficient Energy Management, Sustainability and Decarbonisation through ICT (co-organised by the Efficient Energy Cluster of Catalonia): this award distinguishes the organisation and the project that has excelled most, in the last calendar year, when it comes to enhancing energy efficiency and/or decarbonisation through the use of ICT.

• Award for Innovation through Mobile Technologies (co-organised by the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation): this award is presented to the initiative, company, organisation or institution which, over the last calendar year, has excelled in introducing innovations that improve the quality of life of citizens and business efficiency through mobile technologies.

• ICT-based Blue Economy Innovation Award (co-organised by the BCN Port Innovation Foundation of the Port of Barcelona): this award is presented to the initiative that has displayed outstanding ICT-based innovation for the economy, focusing on the importance of the seas and oceans as economic engines due to their great potential for innovation and growth.

• ICT Women Award (co-organised by the Secretariat of Digital Policies of the Ministry of Business and Labour of the Government of Catalonia): this award acknowledges the woman who has stood out the most when it comes to promoting innovation, technology and the digital transformation in her profession in the last calendar year.

About GrausTIC

GrausTIC acts as an association for any professional working in the area of ICT in Catalonia, regardless of his/her training. In this regard, GrausTIC has assembled a multidisciplinary team of innovative professionals from different backgrounds and educations who have made technology their work (in the broadest sense) and, above all, their passion.

Its vision is that technology serves to build a better, more sustainable and charitable world. ICT must always be at the service of people.

The aim of GrausTIC is to act as a facilitator of the interrelationship between the heterogeneous players in the Catalan digital ecosystem and to bring ICT closer to all areas of society and the different sectors of industry, with the goal of transforming the country and allowing it to progress while contributing to creating a fairer world.