For nearly 60 years, the SIMA INNOVATION AWARDS, a major international competition, have recognised the most innovative equipment, products, techniques and services showcased, for the first time anywhere in the world, by exhibitors at SIMA.

Innovate to prepare for the future and stand out from the crowd!

Innovation is... the updating and marketing of a more effective product, technique or service to supply users with services that are objectively new or improved. An innovation is different from an invention or a discovery to the extent that it can be applied to a specific purpose.
 

Entering the SIMA Innovation Awards is a highly-effective way of:

• Optimising your time at the show and generating more traffic at your stand
  Our communications, combined with yours, will put the spotlight on your innovation.
• Taking centre stage at the show
  Boost your profile with extensive press coverage, surveys and reports devoted to your company, products, etc.

• Gain recognition as a dynamic market expert
  You listen to farmers, you’re able to prepare for their future needs and provide them with appropriate solutions.

About the SIMA Innovation Awards:

A recognised international judging panel

Entrants are selected by an international judging panel consisting of top specialists from the fields of research, higher education and development.

The members of the SIMA Innovation Awards 2011 judging panel are as follows:

• SIMA’s Technology Advisor, committee spokesperson :
• A representative of:

- The French Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries

- CEMAGREF (French Agriculture and Environmental Engineering Research Institute)

- BCMA (French Coordination Office for Agricultural Machinery)

- ENSAT and ENITA in Bordeaux (French National Advanced Agronomy Colleges)

- INAPG (Paris-Grignon National Agronomy Institute)

- AXEMA (Union of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers)

- OSEO-ANVAR (SME growth and innovation stakeholders)

- ACTA, Association for Technical Coordination in Agriculture

- ADEME, French Environment and Energy Management Agency

- Federal Dairy Research Centre in Kiel (Germany)

- Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (Belgium)

- Institute of Agrarian Research in Valencia (Spain)

- IMAMOTER, Istituto Per La Meccanizzazione Agricola E Movimento Terra (Italy)

- Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft und Landtechnik (Switzerland)

Putting the user centre stage

Keen to respond to the needs of future consumers, the judging panel solicits opinions from users and experts from the fields of research, teaching, administration (regulation), specialised bodies and trade representatives (advisers from chambers of agriculture and CUMAs).
 

Immediate profitability

• Effective media springboard

Two and a half months before the opening of the show, distribution of a list of award winners to the French and international trade press.
In 2009, the awards were the central subject of almost a quarter of articles

• Promoting your presence at SIMA

- Winners are provided with distinctive signage to help showcase their award-winning innovations on their stand.
- 50,000 maps, handed out at show entrances, highlight stands featuring winning products with a pictogram.

- The catalogue (paper and on-line) including the 2011 Innovation Awards.
The primary reason visitors attend SIMA is to discover new products and services
 

• Planet-Agri, an outstanding showcase

- Two and a half months before the opening of the show
Results are published online at www.planet-agri.com. Each product will be promoted, at random, on the home page of www.planet-agri.com, Innovation Review box.
E-visitors can organise their visit around innovations that interest them.

- After the exhibition
Competition results remain online in the Innovation section. They will be archived and accessible via a multiple-criteria search by the website user.
Some innovations will be explored in an article called “What happened to...?”
 

The SIMA Innovation Awards, an added boost
for the launch and international marketing of your product.

 

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Terms of participation

Condition

You must be an exhibitor at SIMA 2011.
If you are not yet a direct exhibitor or co-exhibitor, the competition will be open to you on receipt of your application for admission to the show.

> Exhibiting at SIMA 2011

Four criteria

• Relate to a relevant sector, such as agriculture, breeding, multi-crop/breeding, specialised crops and renewable energies.
• Be innovative or an original improvement.
• Represent an advance in at least one of the following areas:

- operations: work quality, productivity gains, farming best practices, respect for the environment,
- use: ease of use, comfort, safety, reduced user fatigue,
- technical design and technologies used: technological transfer or leap, eco-design, respect for the environment and food safety,
- savings: decreased investment and maintenance costs, higher productivity, simplified maintenance and easier upkeep, improved production system and enhanced product value.
- new plant product: awarded with plant source certification (COV), which governs the patenting and sale of seeds in France.

• Not have appeared in a previous international trade show or exhibition

> Regulation

Two steps

Your online registration: simple and fast

• Step 1: Your administrative registration from now!
  Complete the registration form in just a few minutes
  Entry fee: €200 excl. VAT per product application (€239.20 incl. VAT)
  Once we receive your form, we will send you an ID and password, a guide featuring advice on completing your application, and the address of a secure website where you may submit your application.

• Step 2: Your e-application
  You may submit your application online as soon as you receive your codes.
  You have until 20 September 2010 - but don’t leave it to the last minute!

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Dates for your diary

Customized support

• Your contact to help you complete your registration and submit your applications:
  Audrey RINGEARD au 33 (0)1 76 77 14 90 - Audrey.RINGEARD@comexposium.com
   

• Your expert to help you put together your application and answer your technical questions:
  Jean-Bernard Montalescot on 33 (0)6 73 07 26 94 - jean-bernard.montalescot@cemagref.fr

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