The Hamburg Senate presents the fourth edition of the Innovation in Digital Equality Award (IDEA), which recognizes outstanding contributions to equality in the digital space. The award is presented in two categories: The sponsorship award supports technical innovations or concepts that digitize or further develop gender equality approaches, while the honorary award recognizes women who have made special contributions to the digital world. Submissions for both categories are possible until September 6, 2024. The award ceremony will take place on November 28, 2024.
Following awards in 2019, 2020 and 2022, the Hamburg Senate is once again presenting the Innovation in Digital Equality Award (IDEA) this year. With this award, the Senate honors and promotes innovation and commitment in the field of equality and gender equality in the digital space.
The prize is awarded in two categories:
The award recognizes technical innovations or innovative concepts that have already been developed and that digitally implement analogue equality-oriented solutions in or for Hamburg or that take gender equality to the next level. The award is endowed with up to 25,000 euros.
The honorary prize is awarded to women who have made outstanding contributions to gender equality in the digital world or who have promoted and shaped the digital economy in a special way.
Applications and proposals can be submitted until September 6, 2024. The award ceremony will take place on November 28, 2024 during a Senate reception at City Hall.
“The digital transformation can only succeed if it is also shaped by women: Equal opportunities must be driven forward together with digitalization. This is exactly what we are promoting with the Innovation in Digital Equality Award: innovative projects for equality in the digital world. The award winners of recent years have impressively demonstrated with their projects how online tools, apps and AI applications contribute to integrating women’s perspectives more strongly into digital planning and design processes, raising awareness of discrimination and thus strengthening equality for women. I am delighted that we will be awarding the IDEA prize again this year and am already looking forward to the applications!”
Senator for Equal Opportunities Katharina Fegebank
IDEA Sponsorship Award
The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg welcomes exciting ideas and concepts for innovative online tools, digital processes and procedures or even ideas for digital infrastructures for the IDEA Award that focus on the specific life situations of women and develop solutions for them. This is because the everyday lives and working lives of women and men still differ in many respects: women perform significantly more unpaid care work than men, have different mobility patterns as a result, are affected by sexualized or domestic violence far more often than men and often still earn less money.
Prizes are awarded to technical innovations or concepts developed in or for Hamburg by individuals, associations, organizations, institutions, initiatives, companies or projects that digitally transfer equality-oriented analogue solutions and/or think equality digitally and lead to more equal opportunities.
The ideas submitted can relate to all areas of life and offer creative digital solutions for everyday life or convince through technical innovations that counteract gender discrimination in a professional context, for example.
The IDEA sponsorship award is endowed with a maximum of 25,000 euros. The prize money for the sponsorship award is intended to promote the further development of existing technical solutions or the implementation of innovative concepts. The prize money is to be used directly for the implementation of the award-winning project.
IDEA Honorary Award
The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg would like to make women who are committed to equality and gender equality in the digital space in or for Hamburg or who have successfully asserted and established themselves in tech professions and in digital work contexts more visible. After all, women can and want to be involved to the same extent as men and actively shape how we communicate in the future, which digital services are developed and which problems are tackled. So far, they have been severely underrepresented in this area.
Women can nominate themselves or be nominated by another person for the IDEA Honorary Award.
