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A Czech candidate nominated for European Prize for Women Innovators

06/02/2025

The co-founder of a Czech innovative start-up RoboTwin Megi Mejdrechová has been nominated for this year´s European Prize for Women Innovators. The prize is jointly awarded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Innovation Council (EIC).

Megi Mejdrechová is nominated in the EIT Women Leadership category intended for exceptional representatives of the EIT community. The other two categories are the Women Innovators Prize for women who strarted up successful innovative companies and the Rising Innovators Prize for female innovators under 35.

The awards will be presented on April 3rd during the EIC Summit in Brussels. Further details are available here.

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