Date: 14 March 2016

On 14th March 2016 the MAPPING project successfully concluded the "Privacy via IT Security App" Competition with a highly anticipated Award Ceremony at the CeBIT 2016 exhibition. The two-hour event included key-notes from distinguished guests on topics related to privacy as well as demonstrations of the three winning proposals. The programme was concluded by the announcement of the competition’s overall winner.

The final ranking of the MAPPING Privacy via IT Security App Competition:

The team developing OmniShare received a 20,000 EUR prize for the further development and deployment of their App. All three winners were given the opportunity to present their App and their organisations’ activities throughout the week at their own Start-up Workstation at CeBIT 2016.

Besides MAPPING Project Coordinator Prof. Joe Cannataci and MAPPING WP5 leader Nikolaus Forgó, other distinguished guests and renowned experts in the field of privacy such as Christoph Grabenwarter (Judge at the Austrian Constitutional Court), Sachar Paulus (Faculty of Computer Science, Mannheim School of Applied Sciences) and Jan Philipp Albrecht (Member of the European Parliament) were present at the Award Ceremony. During the event’s closing Meet &Greet session participants of the event had the opportunity to discuss privacy related issues with the speakers, the winning teams and the competition’s jury members.

For further information, please visit the project website.