VINCI 2015 Innovation Awards
19 June 2015 - Sustainability
Every two years, the Innovation Awards competition invites all VINCI employees to present their most innovative hands-on initiatives, with the idea of using them on the ground and speeding up their dissemination throughout the Group. In 2015, this in-house competition open to all employees includes a "2O20 Climate Challenge", open to all students.
The Innovation Awards competition allows employees in VINCI companies to develop their creative potential by encouraging individual and team initiatives or innovations developed in collaboration with outside partners. Every two years, thousands of projects are examined and almost 150 innovations rewarded across the world. The competition covers not only technologies but also the full range of innovations that drive progress within the Group, notably in the fields of safety, sustainable development and working conditions. These innovations illustrate a mind set that enables VINCI to continue making progress in terms of quality, safety, deadlines and environmental responsibility.
2,212 entries have been submitted by 5,600 participants for the 2015 version of the VINCI Innovation Awards Competition. The final awards ceremony will be held in Paris on 10 December 2015.
South-West Region and North Region
The prize-giving ceremony for the VINCI 2015 Innovation Awards, South-West region, was held on 18 June in Bordeaux. 11 prize-winners were chosen from among the 163 projects competing. The Grand Prize was awarded to "Simple Box", a prefabricated cavity box (in building and civil engineering structures, cavity boxes are nistalled in the formwork prior to concreting, allowing the passage of networks). Easier to handle and risk-free for workers, the boxes are furthermore reusable, which improves the environmental and economic impact of the operations.
The VINCI 2015 Innovation Awards ceremony in the North Region took place on 22 June 2015 in Marcq-en-Barœul. 11 prize-winners were chosen from among the 96 projects competing. The Grand Prize was awarded to "Guardrail supported tray", a guardrail tool to protect against musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) Watch the videos to discover the prize-winners :
Next regional ceremonies will be held :
- East Region - 30 June
- West Region - 4 September
- United Kingdom And Ireland Region - 8 September
- Paris Region - 16 September
- Rhône-Alpes Region - 9 October
- South-East Region - 16 October
- North-America Region - 28 October
- Europe Region - 30 October
- Central Activities Region - 6 November
- International Region - 6 November
- Final prize-winner - 10 December
With the 2020 Climate Challenge, VINCI is opening its Innovation Awards to students!
In 2015, in the framework of the Innovation Awards, VINCI is launching a challenge open to students. In the run-up to COP 21, the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention, which will bring world leaders together at end 2015 around the future of the planet, the student challenge invites participants to find simple, innovative, easy-to-implement solutions to help VINCI reduce the environmental footprint of its worksites looking to 2020. Numerous prizes are offered, added to which students will have the opportunity to present their project to the Group's senior executives.
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2,212 entries have been submitted
5,600 participants
185 000 employees in some 100 countries
South West Region Grand Prize held on 18 June in Bordeaux
Further information
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Read "Open innovation: the VINCI Innovation Awards now open to students!"
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