The Grand Prize for Engineering 2022 – Innovation – awarded by Vattenfall
Winner: Antonio Capezza for SaniSOLE
Jury statement:
Innovation is a combination of creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership, and subject knowledge. Innovation can be disruptive and change large systems or incremental and refine existing systems. In our time, with significant challenges in climate and environment, innovation is more necessary than ever and becoming increasingly important. The jury has evaluated the nominees based on all of these aspects and found a winner who, through diligent systematic work, has realized a product that has great potential to enable many people to reduce their carbon footprint and use an environmentally friendly and circular product while maintaining quality. Antonio Capezza, together with the team behind Sanisole, wins for their work with recyclable and environmentally friendly sanitation products.
The 2022 jury:
Linnea Kvist – Kommunikationschef, Innovationsföretagen
Paulina Modlitba – Programdirektör, Women in Tech
Jonas Wilde – Director Generation Research & Development, Vattenfall