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European Railway Award The European Railway Award was initiated in 2007 and is jointly organised by the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Industry (CER), and the Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE).

The European Railway Award honours outstanding political and technical achievements in the development of economically and environmentally sustainable rail transport. The award comes with prize money, which is donated to charity organisations of the laureates’ choice. The jury consists of CEOs of rail industry companies and others stakeholders from the transport sector.

In previous years, the European Railway Award was awarded to late Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert (2007), Swiss Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger (2009), former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González (2010), British Labour politician, former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone (2011), and European ERTMS Coordinator Karel Vinck (2012) within the political category.

Within the technical category the prizes were awarded to former Director General of SNCF Jean Dupuy (2007), the inventor of the electronic train control system ETCS Bengt Sterner (2009), former member of the board of DB and former Chairman of DB Netz Roland Heinisch (2010), Managing Director of Knorr-Bremse Austria Stefan Haas (2011), and Alstom Senior Vice-President François Lacôte (2012).

External links http://www.cer.be http://www.unife.org