CTO Awards 2000 The CTO Awards ceremony was held at the ALTENER 2000 conference in Toulouse - Oct 2000.

The Award Winners:


The award winners on stage at the ALTENER 2000 conference having been presented with the trophies.

• "GRAND PRIZE"
  

• 100% Communities for 100% Renewable Energy:

• Special Prize:

Further Information on CTO Awards:

Downloads: Rules of the Competition / Questionnaire for entry

Participants
The "CTO Awards" competition is open to all those who have signed a Renewable Energy Partnership with DG TREN, in the context of the Campaign for Take-Off of renewable sources of energy.

The Campaign for Take-Off Awards scheme is open to private and public institutions and companies. The participants can be: municipalities, universities, energy agencies, energy industry/utilities, consumer associations, non governmental organisations, financial institutions, forest-based industries, forest-based cooperatives, farmers associations, industry associations, local, regional and national administrations.

Objectives
The Campaign for Take-Off Awards Scheme has two main goals:

1. To reward efforts in promoting renewable energy
2. To showcase successful projects and initiatives all over Europe

Categories
The jury will be awarding prizes to the best partnerships according to the following catergories:

The best partnership from all categories
The best industrial partnership
The best partnership with a national scope
The best partnership with a regional scope

Within the 100 communities category, prizes will be awarded to three different classes of entry:

City- or town-based communities
Rural communities
Geographically isolated communities

Application
There is one standard questionnaire in english for all categories. This questionnaire will be used for the Awards, the evaluation of the Renewable Energy Partnership and the Catalogue.

Download the questionnaire (MS Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF format)

Deadline
The deadline for entry into the 2000 award competition will end on Monday 24 July 2000.
Two copies of the application folder for the competition have to be completed and returned to Observ'ER before Monday 24 July 2000.

The award ceremony will be held during the "ALTENER 2000" conference on Tuesday 24 October.

Participation
1. Download and read the rules of the competition (Adobe Acrobat/PDF format)
2. Download and complete the questionnaire (MS Word or Adobe Acrobat/PDF format)
3. Send the completed questionnaire direct to Observ'ER


For more information contact:

Observ'ER Loïc A. BLANCHARD 146 rue de l'Université F - 75007 PARIS Tél : +33 1 44 18 00 80 Fax : +33 1 44 18 00 36 E-mail : Observ.er@wanadoo.fr