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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">GMES-MASTERS 2012 CHALLENGE IS OPEN!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif"><span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.gmes-masters.com/">www.gmes-masters.com/</a></span> <br>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">Open Competitions:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- Ideas Challenge: The best market-oriented
business idea related to GMES</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">will win EUR 10,000 and the chance to enter the
incubation programme at one</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">of the six ESA BICs – an additional EUR 60,000
value.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- ESA App Challenge: This challenge will give
the entrant behind the most</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">innovative smartphone app based on the use of
GMES Earth observation data</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">the opportunity to begin incubation at one of
the six ESA BIC facilities in</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">Europe (a EUR 60,000 value).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- DLR Environmental Challenge: The winner of
this challenge will receive</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">technical support in realising the best GMES
application idea in the field</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">of environment and energy.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- T-Systems Cloud Computing Challenge: This
challenge’s prize package</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">includes support in implementing the best idea
for using the cloud computing</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">model “infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS) to
provide access to Earth</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">observation data through a user-oriented web
portal or mobile devices.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- European Space Imaging High-Res Challenge:
Whoever submits the best</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">application idea based on the use of
high-resolution Earth observation data</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">will receive a data package worth EUR 20,000.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- Astrium Radar Challenge: Innovative ideas for
using radar data that</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">clearly offer more added value than current
applications will have the</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">chance to take home a data package worth EUR
25,000.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">- Best Service Challenge: Visitors to the GMES
Masters website will</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">determine the winning idea of this challenge,
which will be awarded Earth</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">observation data worth EUR 40,000 from the
European Commission. The best</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">existing services will also receive marketing
support.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">The competition’s overall winner, the GMES
Master, will be selected from</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">among the winners of the above mentioned
individual challenges (excluding</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">the Best Service Challenge) and will receive an
additional EUR 20,000 in</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">cash, as well as data worth EUR 60,000.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif">More info at: </font><span style="font-family:
'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; "><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.gmes-masters.com/">www.gmes-masters.com/</a></span></div>
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