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LightingEurope Announces Winners of 2021 & 2022 President’s Awards

LightingEurope president Lionel Brunet revealed how each of the recipients has impacted the organization's work and helped Europe’s lighting industry move forward.

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LightingEurope Announces Winners of 2021 & 2022 President’s Awards

We were excited to host our members in Paris on 31st May and 1st June for a General Assembly dinner and conference. On this occasion we also organised the LightingEurope 2021 and 2022 President’s Awards ceremonies to celebrate individuals’ outstanding contribution to the work of the lighting industry.

In a spirit of friendship among peers and on what was the first in-person meeting for over 2 years, Lionel Brunet, President of LightingEurope, revealed his choices, highlighting how each of the recipients has impacted the work of LightingEurope and helped Europe’s lighting industry move forward.

We congratulate the winners of the President’s Awards (in alphabetical order of family name):

2021

  • Nathalie Coursière from IGNES
  • Peter Hunt from The LIA

2022

  • Otmar Franz from ams OSRAM
  • Fabio Pagano from ASSIL

Over the past two years LightingEurope members have continued to collaborate and exchange to help shape the future of Europe’s lighting industry, addressing such topics as how to apply the new ecodesign, energy labelling and EPREL obligations to lighting products, how to accelerate the uptake of LED-based lighting systems with sensors and controls, how lighting contributes to sustainability, or how to prevent and quickly address online freeriding.

About LightingEurope
LightingEurope is the voice of the lighting industry, based in Brussels and representing 30 companies and national associations. Together these members account for over 1,000 European companies, a majority of which are small or medium-sized. They represent a total European workforce of over 100,000 people and an annual turnover exceeding 20 billion euro. LightingEurope is committed to promoting efficient lighting that benefits human comfort, safety and wellbeing, and the environment. LightingEurope advocates a positive business and regulatory environment to foster fair competition and growth for the European lighting industry. More information is available at lightingeurope.org.

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