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Saturday, May 23, 2026

European Inventor Popular Prize - Vote here! (2)

The European Patent Office (EPO) invites the public to vote for the Finalist who will receive the Popular Prize. The Popular Prize winner, solely decided by the public, will be announced on the occasion of the European Inventor Awards Ceremony, to be held in Berlin, on July 2nd, 2026.

The rules for voting are the following:

• You may vote for one to three inventors each day until the votes are counted, during the Awards Ceremony on July 2nd.

• Click on your first choice and then follow the prompts to accept the voting conditions.

• Registration to vote requires an authenticated email, or a social media account, the first time you vote. Click below to vote for your favorite inventors/inventions!

• Voting is free.

Click here to vote!

Reference
European Inventor Awards 2026
https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/european-inventor-award#finalists

Saturday, May 17, 2025

EPO - Young Inventors Awards 2025 – Vote here!

The European Patent Office (EPO) Young Inventors Awards Ceremony will take place on June 18th, in Reykjavik, Iceland. All of the finalists, called Tomorrow Shapers, will receive a €5000 prize. Additionally, three €15,000 prizes will each be awarded to jury-selected young inventors, plus one €5000 People’s Choice prize.

The three additional €15,000 prizes are awarded for inventions addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular:

The World Builders Prize to the young innovators who strive to promote circular economies, ensuring a better future for everyone. Their inventions typically fall within the scope of the SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17.

The Community Healers Prize to the young innovators who develop solutions to secure access to food, water, education, and jobs. Their inventions typically fall within the scope of the SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10,16,17.

The Nature Guardians Prize to the young innovators who strive to mitigate climate change and to protect ecosystems and the flora and fauna within. Their inventions typically fall within the scope of the SDGs 13, 14, 15, 17.

YOU are also invited to participate in the June 2025 Young Inventors Awards Ceremony, by voting for the People’s Choice winner. The rules for participating in the People’s Choice award empower you to vote for one invention every day. You have till June 18th to vote each day. Just click HERE to select one invention today.

Then, watch what happens through a young Inventor's eyes!

References

European Patent Office (EPO)

www.epo.org

EPO About the Prize

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/young-inventors-prize/about-prize

EPO Young Inventor Finalists: Meet the Tomorrow Shapers.

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/young-inventors-prize-2025-meet-tomorrow-shapers

UN Sustainable Development Goals

https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Do you know the 17 SDGs goals? (YouTube video)

https://youtu.be/0XTBYMfZyrM

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Terminology - Oxford WOTY 2024 -- Vote now!

Celebrating 20 years of WOTTIES, Oxford is calling on the public to vote for the 2024 Word of the Year (WOTY). As Susie Dent, Oxford resident dictionary expert, lexicographer, etymologist, Two Words game designer, and multiple-book author puts it:

The choice is yours! There is no committee presiding over our language. It is a democracy. As much as some would like a linguistic government. We all are it.

Voting is open till November 28, 2024, at 3 pm (GMT). Click on the QR code to vote!

The following summarized definitions and rationales are quoted at the Oxford Dictionary site for the six 2024 WOTY candidates:

dynamic pricing: The practice of varying prices for a product or service to reflect changing market conditions, in particular, the charging of a higher price at a time of greater demand. According to Oxford, the term is a loan translation from the Swedish term “dynamiska prisbildning”. The term was coined by a Swedish economist, Gunnar Myrdal, in 1927, and then translated to English, in 1929, by another Swedish economist, named Erik Lindahl. Recently, the term has spiked in high profile cases of online sales, involving the price of concert tickets.
demure (adjective): Of a person, reserved or restrained in appearance or behavior. Of clothing, not showy, ostentatious or overly revealing. The earliest occurrence recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary, in 1377, was in reference to the sea being calm. Oxford recorded a recent spike, in 2024, after the term was used by Jools Lebron, a fierce diva influencer on TikTok.
lore: A body of (supposed) facts, background information, and anecdotes relating to someone or something, regarded as knowledge required for full understanding or informed discussion of the subject at hand. According to Oxford observations, the term has been used recently in more engaged fandoms to refer to what surrounds a celebrity, book, film or character.
brain rot: Supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also something characterized as leading to such deterioration. In the Oxford corpus, recorded usage increased 250% in frequency, per one million words, between 2023 and 2024.
slop: Art, writing, or other content generated using AI, shared and distributed online in a indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate. According to Oxford, the term appeared in use since the mid-nineteenth century to refer to nonsense or rubbish. In 2024, Oxford recorded a 332% increase in use of “slop” to refer to material produced by LLMs. Material seen as inaccurate or low quality, and increasingly visible.
romantasy: A genre of fiction combining elements of romantic fiction and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic, the supernatural, or adventure alongside a central romantic storyline. According to Oxford, the word originates, in 2008, at Random House Germany, as a translated genre label, from German, for romantic fantasy novels. In 2024, usage spiked in discussions at the BookTok forum, on Tiktok.

References

Oxford WOTY 2024 (YouTube video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwKnx07Bsco

Dent, S. (2024). Guilty by Definition: A Journey of Oxford past and present. London, UK: John Murray.

----- (2023). Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings. London, UK: John Murray.

----- (2022). Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary. London, UK: John Murray.

----- (2020). Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment Every Day. London, UK: John Murray.

----- (2016). Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain. London, UK: John Murray.

----- (2009). What made the crocodile cry? 101 Questions about the English Language. London UK: John Murray.

-----(2008). Words of the Year. London, UK: John Murray.

Susie Dent (Instagram)

https://www.instagram.com/susiedent/reel/DCY8Q3esUFA/

Susie Dent -That woman in the Dictionary Corner. (on X)

https://x.com/susie_dent?lang=en

Two Words with Susie Dent (Online and mobile game.)

https://www.playtwowords.com/

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

EPO Popular Prize (3) - Vote here!

The European Patent Organization (EPO) invites the public to vote for the Finalist who will receive the Popular Prize. The Popular Prize winner, solely decided by the public, will be announced on the occasion of the European Inventor Awards Ceremony, to be held in Malta, on July 9, 2024.

The rules for voting are the following:

You may vote as many times as you like, but only once a day, for any one of the 12 Finalists.
You may vote as many times as you like, up to the Awards Ceremony. Votes are counted during the ceremony.
Voting is free.
Registration to vote requires an authenticated email, or social media account, the first time you vote.

Click below to vote for your favorite inventors/inventions!

Click here to vote

Reference

European Inventor Award: Meet the Finalists.

https://tinyurl.com/2p57rc2r

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Oh, patents! 2016 – EPO Award finalists - Vote here!

The list of finalists for the 2016 European Patent Awards has just been published. And you are warmly invited to vote in the Popular Prize category for your favorite inventor!

The EPO polling rules for the Popular Prize are interesting in that you can cast a vote every day for your favorite inventor, up to May 31!

Awards are conferred to one of three finalists in the below-listed 5 categories of Industry, Research, Small and Medium Enterprises, Non-European Patent organization countries and lifetime Achievement.

The 15 finalists were selected by an International Jury of experts both on the scientific merits and socio-economic impact of the inventions. Anyone can nominate an inventor. The Jury selects from an EPO selected short-list of approximately 200 nominations (40 in each category). So the competition is quite tough!

The winners are awarded a trophy in the form of a sail symbolizing exploration, which is each year specially crafted in the country where the ceremony will take place. The award ceremony will take place this year Lisbon, Portugal on June 9^th2016!

Here is the line-up of nominated 2016 finalists.