20 GREENMEETINGS AND EVENTS CONFERENCE 2013
The winners of the first „ Meeting Experts Green Award“
Premiere presentation of the Meeting Experts Green Awards
n The first ever presentation of the Meeting Experts Green Awards took place at the greenmeetings and events conference in Darmstadt, Germany, on the evening of 26 February 2013.
The awards honour outstanding achievements in the area of sustainability by companies in the meetings and events sector and are awarded by an independent jury in five categories: Best Energy Management / Conservation of Resources, Best Sustainable Event, Best Sustainable Event Centre / Location, Best Sustainable Human Resources Management and Best Sustainable Company / Association.
The winner in the category Best Energy Management / Conservation of Resources was the Hannover Congress Centre; the ICCA Green Traffic Project at Congress Center Leipzig was presented with the award for the Best Sustainable Event; the Bregenz Festival House took the award for the Best Sustainable Location, artlogic Crewpool won the category Best Human Resources Management; and BESONDERE ORTE Umweltforum Berlin GmbH was recognised as the Best Sustainable Company. n Jury included experts from the event sector and environmental institutions The members of the jury for this year’ s Meeting Experts Green Award were: Anja Lindner( Projects- Consulting- Organisation for Sustainable Catering and Events), Professor Helmut Schwägermann( Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences), Professor Michael-Thaddäus Schreiber( EITW- Europäisches