Great news! The PhD topic that I am working on received a scholarship by Netidee.
The Netidee program is organised by the non-profit Internet Foundation Austria (IPA), which is part of the Internet Service Providers Austria (ISPA). The program supports theses and projects that promote the Internet through innovative ideas. In this respect, the last 10 years, each year they reward 6 student theses with a scholarship after evaluating the received submissions through the respective call.
The award ceremony took place at a great place in Vienna at the MuseumsQuartier on the 11th of November 2015. It was fantastic spontaneously meeting again with people that I had met in the past in international conferences. Attending the workshop earlier about ideas development to products presented by Dr. Stefan Perkmann Berger from WhatAVenture was a great add-on in the agenda of the day. Although mainly targeting the project winners, I found it super interesting and useful.