Deadline: 5-Jun-23
Nominations are now open for the Green Gown Awards 2023.
2023 Categories
Organisational Categories:
- 2030 Climate Action – Prize for the winner(s) – sponsored by The Energy Consortium
- Benefitting Society
- Campus Health, Food and Drink
- Creating Impact – NEW – sponsored by the Scottish Funding Council
- Digital Futures – NEW – sponsored by Jisc
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Sustainability
- Money for Good
- Nature Positive – NEW
- Next Generation Learning and Skills
- Research with Impact (Institution)
- Student Engagement
- Sustainability Institution of the Year – sponsored by EAUC
- Tomorrow’s Employees
- Reporting with Influence – sponsored by Hillside Environmental Services
Individual Categories:
- Research with Impact (Student)
- Sustainability Champion – sponsored by Salix
Eligibility Criteria
- All categories are open to any tertiary education establishment – including all post-16 educational institutions such as colleges, universities and learning and skills institutions.
- Specific categories are also aimed at student applications and 3rd party applications.
- Judges are allowed discretion to award up to 2 winners for each category to distinguish between large and small institution applications (measured against an annual turnover of £50 million)
- However, this will only be done when applications are of a high quality – it is not mandatory.
Generic Criteria
- To make a strong application please provide facts and figures to support your application and meet all the criteria within your chosen category. You should also include the following generic criteria:
- Demonstrate the impact of any measures taken
- Provide quantitative clear data to support claims being made and include overall tonnes of CO2 saved using the DEFRA/DECC conversion factors. Include, where appropriate, metrics such as: carbon savings relative to output/activity. This might be tCO2/student or tCO2/staff member and/or cost of a project relative to the amount of carbon that has been saved, i.e. £/tCO2. Note: For the Campus of the Future category, these figures MUST be included
- Include savings made relating to carbon related issues
- Demonstrate the impact of your initiative and show documented outcomes
- Provide industry norm versus over and requirements
- Document mature projects which have been evaluated and monitored longitudinally. Note: for any building projects, the building must be completed and date of completion included within the application
- Applications need to go and beyond standard practice. For those categories asking for a holistic, whole life-cycle approach, the application must focus on the whole life-cycle and not on an individual campaign(s).
- Explain clearly how the project includes academic staff and/or professional sector staff/support staff and include numbers of others involved including students. Where students and staff are involved, as well as including the actual numbers, include how they were involved and what impact/influence they have had
- If your initiative is a joint partnership or includes 3rd parties, provide details on the roles of all parties and state who is the main driver – and state if selected, the name of the partners as they should appear on the certificate/trophy – if appropriate
- Explain any KPI’s that are relevant to your application and any relevant costs/resources, inputs/outputs. For example: Before initiative:10% of students were engaged. After initiative: 70% of students were engaged
For more information, visit Green Gown Awards.
