Hermes Award 2023 announced by Deutsche Messe
On the occasion of Hannover Messe 2023, Deutsche Messe will announce the Hermes Award as the world's most important industry prize for the twentieth time. It will be presented by the Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger on April 16 during the opening ceremony of the Hannover Messe.
Companies and institutions participating in Hannover Messe 2023 can apply for this prestigious award until February 15. In addition to the Hermes Award, the Hermes Startup Award will also be announced for the first time. An independent jury made up of top-class experts from politics, business, research and society, chaired by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reimund Neugebauer, President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, will nominate three products each for the Hermes Award and the Hermes Startup Award from among the entries and select the respective winner from this group. The criteria of degree of technological innovation, benefits for industry, the environment and society, economic viability and readiness for implementation will play a prominent role in the assessment of the prize-worthiness.
Every year, Deutsche Messe AG presents the Hermes Award to a company whose product or solution demonstrates a particularly high degree of technological innovation. Only technology solutions that have already been tested on an industrial scale are considered. The Hermes Award 2022 went to Sumitomo Cyclo Drive Germany. The company was honored for a completely integrated drive for robot applications and automation technology. In the past two years, the Hermes Award jury already made use of the opportunity to award a special prize and honored one company each time with the Hermes Startup Award, which in 2022 went to MIP Technology from Hanover for a magnetic identification solution.