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TRANSPORT MEPs ENCOURAGE EUROPEAN
RAIL SECTOR TO ENTER NEW RAIL AWARDS
Judges of the new European Rail Congress Awards are encouraging operators,
suppliers and managers in the European rail sector to submit their entries for
the 19 different award categories.
Chair of the Awards judging panel, Brian Simpson MEP, who is also Chair of the
European Parliament's Transport Committee, said: "We are looking forward to
seeing evidence of excellence and innovation across a wide spectrum of railway
professionalism on the European rail network. Winners of these prestigious
awards will truly be representing best practice in the European rail sector,
especially given it will be the views and opinions of highly regarded peers that
determine the award winners."
Other members of the judging panel include EU Transport Commissioner Siim
Kallas as well as the following members of the European Parliament's Transport
Committee: Dominique Riquet MEP, Said El Khadraoui MEP, Ines Ayala Sender
MEP and Debora Serracchiani MEP. READ MORE...
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ENTRIES:
Entrants can make their submissions online to the 19 different award categories.
Deadline for entries:
19 April 2013
Entries are welcome from both EU and non-EU European countries.
Award winners will be announced at the inaugural 2013 Awards ceremony in London on 12 November 2013. |
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ADVICE ON SUBMITTING A STRONG ENTRY
It goes without saying that your entry should clearly tell the judges about the successes you have achieved and you
should do so in around 1000 words.
Your success could relate to a new service you have run, a new rail bridge you have built, a new safety strategy you have
implemented, a rail station you have transformed, new technologies you have introduced, new partnerships you have
entered in to. Our 19 different Awards categories cover the whole spectrum of the railway industry and its wide range of
professionalisms.
To make your entry stand out from the crowd, innovative elements of your project should be particularly highlighted. Your
project may represent an industry-first or it may include the innovative application of existing products and services.
For the judges having to make the tough decisions on which entries to short-list, their task is made easier if you provide
clear and strong evidence of results that have been achieved thanks to the delivery of your project/service/product. These
results could, for example, take the form of increased passenger satisfaction levels, improved service reliability, higher
carbon savings, increased efficiencies, better safety levels, patronage growth, increased ticket sales etc. The strongest
entries will convey the results in a statistical manner.
If the aim of the project was to provide a solution to an existing problem, make sure you describe the previous situation
and the subsequent positive changes and results that have occurred since implementation.
Include photographs and diagrams if they help to better illustrate your results/achievements, for example, improvements to
rail stations may be conveyed more strongly if photographs underpin the written entry.
Projects entered must have been implemented in the last five years and you may enter the same submission in to more
than one Award category.
Good luck!
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