Of course, the curtain will not fall until July 3rd at the awards ceremony, which will take place at 5.30 p.m. in Hall 8.0 at the trade fair. But the following is revealed in advance: This year’s expert jury honoured a total of 43 innovative products and projects from the bike and future mobility industry with the Eurobike Award, with twelve products receiving a special distrinction.
“This year's submissions once again show the direction in which the global bicycle and mobility industry is developing. The impressive innovations of the Eurobike Awards represent tangible solutions for accelerating the mobility transition in the field of ecomobility, and furthermore, demonstrate how convincingly the bicycle product excels in various segments,’ says Dirk Heidrich, Eurobike project manager at fairnamic GmbH, which once again cooperated with the German Design Council as an experienced design and brand authority in Germany.
This year, the independent jury of experts presented a total of 43 innovative awards in the nine categories of bicycles, e-bikes, light electric vehicles up to 45 km/h, micro electric vehicles, components, accessories, clothing and accessories, digital solutions and mobility solutions and infrastructure.
This year, the submissions focused on improving technical performance and implementing sustainable solutions across various product categories. The range of innovative approaches is also evident in socially motivated projects, circular solutions, and highly functional modifications of existing systems. The jury placed particular emphasis on the degree of innovation, functionality, ecological and social sustainability, as well as design considerations during the evaluation process.
High-profile expert jury
The members of this year’s jury:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Hübler (Chair of Intelligent Machine Systems, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences), H. David Koßmann (Editor-in-Chief fahrstil. Das Radkulturmagazin), Maike Larschow (Head of Sales ‘Rad & Tour Cuxhaven), Daniel Rese (Designer and Research Associate at the Offenbach Institute for Mobility Design (OIMD) at the Offenbach University of Art and Design), Warren Rossiter (Senior Technical Editor ‘bikeradar), Sabine Spitz (Olympic Champion, two-time World Champion, four-time European Champion and 20-time German Champion in mountain biking), Christian Zanzotti (Designer, Zanzotti Industrial Design), Dirk Zedler, Graduate Engineer, Zedler Institut für Fahrradtechnik und -Sicherheit GmbH.
Author: Jürgen Wetzstein
Photo: © fairnamic GmbH