CTO Awards The CTO awards are to be granted every year, the first being in Oct 2000. Who won in 2000?

In order to reward and highlight "best practices", it is intended to grant awards to the best programmes, municipalities, utilities, tourist companies, building promoters, farmers, industries or their associations as well as consumer associations etc. The awards ceremony and allocation of the awards is organised by the European Commission Directorate General for Transport and Energy (DG TREN).

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 2001 award competition has yet to be announced.
Two copies of the application folder for the competition have to be completed and returned to Observ'ER before the deadline.

The award ceremony is held during the annual ALTENER Conference.

View details from the last conference: "ALTENER 2000" held in Toulouse, France.

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