Brussels, 10/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The 2003 European Information Society Technologies Prizes of a total of 700,000 euros will be awarded to a number of the best innovations in the field. The Prize is organised by EUROCASE the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering with the support of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme. The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2003. The President of the European IST Prize Executive Jury in 2003 is Pasquale Pistorio, President and CEO of ST Microelectronics. The 20 winners selected from several hundred candidates will exhibit their winning products at the IST 2003 Conference in Milan (2-4 October 2003), where three of them will be awarded Grand Prizes by Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Technology, and Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technology. (Info: http: //http://www.ist-prize.org ).