MINDTREK Awards and the Top Talent Award
TTA, Rainer Steindler
MINDTREK, KooPee Hiltunen and Sohvi Sirkesalo

MINDTREK Awards

MINDTREK-Awards is trying to identify the best Finnish interactive media products, ideas or concepts which experiment with new means of expression and demonstrate innovative use of technology.

Since 1997 annually 100 – 120 projects across the digital media spectrum have participated, representing web-pages, mobile applications and DVD-releases in the fields of entertainment, education and services.

MINDTREK is not only about recognizing the best products. All nominated projects and finalists are presented during events of the MINDTREK Festival and the winners are celebrated at its highlight, the MINDTREK Awards Gala. MINDTREK is about developing the interactive media business. It offers a forum for experienced professionals and new talents and all players of digital media to analyze excellence network and join forces for future projects.

MINDTREK is arranged by the MindTrek Association in cooperation with partners from the industry, universities and civic and public organizations. The City of Tampere is funding the MINDTREK Grand Prix, 20002 €.

The kick off of MINDTREK Awards 2006 will be in August, but the MINDTREK Student Competition will be launched here and now at the ITK-Conference.

Top Talent Award

The EUROPRIX Top Talent Award is Europe’s contest for students and young professionals who work on innovative projects in the field of e-contents and design - using whatever multimedia channel or platform. Projects can be submitted in 8 categories. And there’s even more: Content Fusion Award, Thesis Award and the new ATI Special Award.

The Top Talent Festival showcases and promotes top students and young professionals and honours them for their outstanding achievements. Over three days, this event frames the platform for networking, exchange of ideas, experiences and business contacts between the multimedia newcomers, instructors, the European IT-industry and IT-media editors and journalists.

The TTA winning projects are the best of young multimedia contents and design in Europe. The projects and products are the top selection from all entries to the Top Talent Award. They show that the new developments are not isolated, but that from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from small towns to the European metro centres, young media designers have taken charge of the technologies to create new applications and contents that work in the real world.