Apply for the R+T Innovation Award 2024!
For the 12th time already, the R+T Innovation Award will be presented as part of the R+T trade fair. Anyone who is not content with the status quo, is looking for better solutions and brings their idea to market maturity is already one of the creative leaders in their industry. Every exhibitor of R+T is cordially invited to take part and apply for the R+T 2024 Innovation Award.
The award will jointly be presented by the Federal Association for Manufacturers of Roller Shutters and Sun Protection, the BVT (National Federation of Door and Gate Manufacturers), the Industrial Association of Technical Textiles - Roller Shutters - Sun Protection and Messe Stuttgart in the following categories:
- Roller shutters
- External venetian blinds
- Textile sun shading systems
- Outdoor
- Interior sun shading systems
- Drive and control systems for roller shutters and sun shading systems
- Doors/gates
- Drive and control systems for doors/gates
- Building automation
- Technical textiles
- Special solutions
The R+T Innovation Award honours future-oriented technical developments. In front of the professionals in the sector, it showcases exemplary innovations from the industry that were launched on the market for the first time or have been developed up to market maturity in 2022.
Apply for the R+T Innovation Award 2024 and present your products to the public. Please find the conditions of participation HERE.
Register for the R+T 2024 Innovation Award
Digital application process
We have made it easier for you to participate. As a company, you can submit your products and solutions digitally via our platform for both the pre-judging and the final judging. In the final judging session, a video presentation (maximum 5 minutes) replaces a presentation of the innovation on site, as was the case with previous final judgements. The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, 18 February 2024 as a live event in a festive setting.
The jury 2024 introduces itself
- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Meyer, Kassel (Chairman of the jury)
- Heinrich Abletshauser, Freiburg
- Martin Auerbach, Wuppertal
- Holger Dirks, Bad Wörishofen
- Stefan Elgaß, Geretsried
- Stephan Engert, Stuttgart
- Ulrike Götz, Dortmund
- Kai-Uwe Grögor, Ratingen
- Björn Kuhnke, Bonn
- Prof. Jörn Peter Lass, Rosenheim
- Maren Meyerling, Düsseldorf
- Dirk Meyer-Tonndorf, Grevenbroich
- Gerd-Joachim Müller, Frankfurt
- Peter Reihnhardt, Karlsruhe
- Lars Rippstein, Fulda
- Yvonne Schneider, Köln
- Sebastian Schott, Stuttgart
- Dr. Claus Schwenzer, Mönchengladbach
- Olaf Vögele, Cologne
- Peter Winters, Zaventem - Belgien
Holger Dirks, Bad Wörishofen
Chefredakteur GFF Glas Fenster Fassade / Siso Sicht+Sonnenschutz, Holzmann Medien GmbH & Co. KG
Work experience
Seit 2020: Editor in Chief GFF Glas Fenster Fassade / Siso Sicht+Sonnenschutz, Holzmann Medien GmbH & Co. KG
2014 – 2020: Editor in Chief Energiespektrum, Henrich Publikationen GmbH
Studies
Magister Artium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Björn Kuhnke, Bonn
Technical consultant at BVRS
At the BVRS, Björn Kuhnke has been representing the interests of the sun protection system industry in the technical committees at DIN, in cooperations with other associations and in political lobbying since 2017. After studying civil engineering, the trained carpenter started out as a specialist planner in the field of building physics in 2010. As an expert in sound and thermal insulation, he works as a surveyor and is responsible at the BVRS for current tasks concerning expert services in the sun protection industry.
Dirk Meyer-Tonndorf, Grevenbroich
Shareholder of Meyer-Tonndorf GmbH, Grevenbroich
Dirk Meyer-Tonndorf graduated as an industrial engineer from the University of Applied Sciences Gießen-Friedberg. Since 1995, he has been managing partner of Meyer-Tonndorf GmbH, Grevenbroich. The company is a nationwide, owner-operated supplier of industrial doors, dock levellers and door seals. Since 2014, Dirk Meyer-Tonndorf has been a member of the board of directors of BVT - Verband Tore in Ratingen, and has been chairman of the association since 2021.
Peter Reinhardt, Karlsruhe
Managing Director at the Chamber of Architects Baden-Württemberg
Peter Reinhardt, Karlsruhe
Managing Director at the Chamber of Architects Baden-Württemberg
1965 | Carpentry apprenticeship | Studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart | 1995-1996 Worked for Kohlhoff und Kohlhoff Architekten in Stuttgart | 1996-199 Worked for Fink+Jocher Architekten in Munich | 1999-2000 Worked for Herzog & de Meuron Architekten in Munich | 2006-2006 Scientific assistant at the Institute of Urban Planning at the Technical University of Munich under Prof. Reichenbach-Klinke | Since 2006 Managing Director at the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects, responsible among other things for the Institut Fortbildung Bau, the educational institution of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects.
Peter Winters, Zaventem - Belgien
Vice President ES-SO, European Solar Shading Organisation and consultant European Solar Shading Business
Peter Winters has been associated with ES-SO European Solar Shading Organisation since its origin end 2004 where he was one of the co-founders, and then became a member of the Board of Directors. From 2010 onwards he became the President of ES-SO and today he still its Vice-President. Professionally, he has fully built his career in the solar shading sector where he first started at Helioscreen Belgium in 1989 and moved in 1991 to Dickson-Constant till where he held until 2021 various positions as PR and Sales Director Europe and also built a competence centre with a leading role for the sector. In addition to his positions in ES-SO where he was many times around Europe asked as a guest speaker, he remains connected today as a consultant in the European Solar Shading Business .