4th Edition of the European Iwamoto Award

Following the wish of Iwamoto-sensei to spread Go in Europe, this contest aims at:
- creating a database of projects that help popularize Go
- realising some of these projects
- encouraging the promotion of Go.

Are you promoting Go? Or do you have a good idea for doing it? If yes, tell us about it in your application and you might be the lucky winner of this competition!

The main prize is 1000 euro. In addition, there are 2 encouragement prizes of 500 euro each. The prizegiving will take place at the European Go Congress 2012 in Bonn.

The candidates for the European Iwamoto Award 2012

Complete list of previous contributions to the European Iwamoto Award

Project	Description	Status
Ratinglist for children	This colorfull list helps to easily see activity and progress of many children at the same time	First prize in 2001
Strasbourg Rules	Computer Demonstration with new rules	First prize in 2003
EuroGoTV	Large video project on go at Internet	First prize in 2007
Internet go school	New technologies to spread Go in a faster and more efficient way	Encouragement award
Educational services	Introduction of Go in the Catalan educational system	Encouragement award
Go-cases for schools	Designed to teach in classes	Encouragement award
Childrens Grand Prix	Tournament-camp cyclus	Encouragement award
Go workbooks	Teaching materials for absolute beginners	Encouragement award
Playable diagrams	Nice go problembook with large diagrams, to play out solutions	Encouragement award
Youth Masters	Helping the young European go players connect with each other	Special EGCC support
3D Go	Large promotional project with different approaches
Go research	Proposal to start investigations in go
Go in companies	Introducing go in companies
UK Go Challenge	Competition aimed at getting school clubs involved
Cambridge Youth Project	Combination of go and chess for youth players
Go Internet Magazine	News about professional and amateur events, interviews, and articles about developing Go
Mini CD	Collection consisting of freeware material for fast promotional activities
Go 4 Schools	Schoolproject with competition
Teaching book	Translation of a book by Masaaki Hirano sensei
Game site	An online community with 30 board games
Go set	Go set with small dimensions, similar to many popular computer games boxes
Internet competition	Tournament as an incentive to learn by playing stronger players
TV-program	TV-spot well designed to raise children's interest in Go
Tournament Magazine	After tournament booklet interesting for a broad public
Go Memory Problems	Combination of the Memory game and teaching Go patterns
Introduction package	Inexpensive Go-set to spread the game more easily
Propaganda Strasbourg	Strategy to spread Go more easily using Strasbourg Rules
Go-Exhibition	Art, philosophy and history of Go in a museum of Ethnology
Internet Access	Plan for a national Go server for low-budget connections
9x9 Go-set	Luxurious Go set with nice explanation of rules
Go for kids	Realisation of lessons combined with children tournaments
Campaign in Timisoara	Go-lessons, materials, tournaments and media-campaign
Promotion in Andalusia	Spreading Go in cooperation with the Local Government
Tour Tournament	An example project - out of competition