We are very glad to announce that some colleagues have just returned from the German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) 2019 held 25 - 27 March in Stuttgart - with good news: Their paper „Predictive Quantization for Staggered Synthetic Aperture Radar“, authors Nicola Gollin, Michele Martone, Michelangelo Villano, Paola Rizzoli, Gerhard Krieger received the "GeMiC 2019 - Best Paper Award". Contratulations to all authors!