Innovation Award

AVK Innovation Award 2025

The application round for 2025 is open.

The AVK awards prizes for the best innovations in the field of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) / composites

The categories:

– Innovative products/applications

– Innovative procedures/processes

– Research and science

One aim of the Innovation Award is to promote new products/components and applications made of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) and to promote new methods and processes for manufacturing these FRP products. Another prize is awarded to universities, colleges and institutes for outstanding scientific work in research and science. In all categories, special emphasis is placed on the topic of “sustainability”.

A further aim is to honor the innovations and the companies/institutions behind them and thus present the performance of the entire composites industry to the public. The entries will be judged by a high-caliber jury of experts from the composites sector.

The award ceremony will take place on October 21, 2025 during the JEC Forum DACH in Dresden (October 21-22, 2025).

Application

Documents to be submitted:

Send the application documents by e-mail to: innovation@avk-tv.de

Please note: Please only submit innovations that have not yet won an award!

Dates

Closing date: 28.03.2025

Presentation at the AVK office: 15.07.2025

Award ceremony JEC Forum DACH in Dresden: 21.10.2025

Application criteria

Prize for innovative products and applications

• Degree of realization of the product innovation
• Innovation level
• Market opportunities
• Sustainability

Prize for innovative processes and procedures

• Degree of realization of the process innovation
• Innovation level
• Improving effectiveness and efficiency
• Sustainability

Prize for research/science (awarded to colleges, universities and institutes)

• Outstanding scientific work
• Innovation level
• Feasibility
• Sustainability

Further information

Winner of the Innovation Award
AVK e. V., Am Hauptbahnhof 12, D-60329 Frankfurt/Main

Jury
A panel of experts appointed by the AVK Board of Directors

Conditions of participation
The jury’s decision is final. Legal recourse is excluded.

The Innovation Award jury