The ED-Awards (European Design) is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. The website is a great place for inspiration.

The main objectives of the ED-Project are:
• To celebrate European design with all its regional distinctive elements as well as its common grounds.
• To facilitate European designers to meet, benchmark, be inspired and build networks.
• To promote and raise standards for communication design throughout Europe.
• To properly honour and award people who invest their passion in design
• To create a directory of best practise European communication design, where design buyers from around the world may compare and search for collaborators.

Link: http://www.ed-awards.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1