FYI - perhaps someone is interested to showcase.<br><br>Markus<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Miguel Carvalho</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.carvalho@livinglabs-global.com">m.carvalho@livinglabs-global.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:36 PM<br>Subject: RE: GRASS Last call for solutions - Living Labs Global Award 2012<br>To: "<a href="mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com">neteler.osgeo@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:neteler.osgeo@gmail.com">neteler.osgeo@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<div>Thanks for letting us know. Below I am including a complete message (with web links and contact details at the end) that you may
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">send to the GRASS Project Steering Committee. We're looking forward to seeing showcases from your project. Many thanks.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The submission deadline is approaching, and we are keen on seeing a showcase from GRASS taking part in the
</span><a href="http://llga.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Living Labs Global Award</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US">to win the opportunity to pilot your projects/products in one of
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.llga.org/categories.php" target="_blank">these 21 visionary cities</a></span><span lang="EN-US">, for example, the city of
</span><a href="http://www.llga.org/category.php?city=12" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Kristiansand
</span></a><span lang="EN-US">(Norway). Submission is free of charge, participation involves a marketing opportunity and international visibility and includes a professional, confidential evaluation of your product or service from the matching city or cities.<br>
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<b>You can <a href="http://www.llga.org/submission.php" target="_blank">submit</a> your showcase(s) and make any changes until 17<sup>th</sup> February</b>. <u></u><u></u></span><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-GB">Organisations participating
in the Living Labs Global Award present their solutions directly to a leading group of world cities and win an opportunity to enter a new market through a pilot with full </span><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-GB">institutional </span><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-GB">support
from the city. </span><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-GB">In 2012, twenty-one global cities are participating in the award with the aim of helping over 100 million citizens in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.</span></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="EN-GB">Entries can be submitted for free on </span><a href="http://www.llga.org/submission.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple" lang="EN-GB">www.llga.org/submission.php</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> or <a href="http://www.citymart.com/" target="_blank">Citymart.com</a> until
17th February 2012. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Any showcase received from your organisation will be assigned to as many city categories (</span><a href="http://www.llga.org/categories.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple" lang="EN-GB">www.llga.org/categories.php</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">)
as it might be relevant for,</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-US">and y</span><span lang="EN-GB">ou may also submit more than one showcase. </span><span lang="EN-GB">International juries will evaluate the entries and provide a shortlist of the
top 100 showcases on 5th March. Winners will be announced at the award ceremony on 2nd May 2012 at the </span><a href="http://www.llga.org/agenda.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple" lang="EN-GB">Rio Summit on Service Innovation in Cities</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-GB">About the Living Labs Global Award 2012:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><a href="http://www.livinglabs-global.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple" lang="EN-GB">Living Labs Global</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, a non-profit association promoting innovative solutions in cities around the world, is organising
the 2012 edition of the <b>Living Labs Global Award </b>in cooperation with the Cities of Barcelona, Birmingham, Caceres, Cape Town, Coventry, Derry~Londonderry, Eindhoven, Fukuoka, Glasgow, Guadalajara, Hamburg, Lagos, Lavasa, Kristiansand, Mexico City, Rio
de Janeiro, Rome-Lazio, San Francisco, Sant Cugat, Santiago de Chile and Terrassa, to choose the companies and organizations that have developed solutions that add high value to users in cities around the world.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
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