Deadline: 31-Jul-21
Nominations are now open for the Biosecurity Awards to recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions to protecting their country. It’s their way of celebrating people and organizations across Aotearoa who is contributing to New Zealand’s biosecurity – in their communities, businesses, iwi and hapu, Kura, universities, and government agencies.
The New Zealand Biosecurity Awards recognise and celebrate exemplary contributions to:
- protecting their taonga (precious natural resources)
- ensuring New Zealand’s biosecurity system remains resilient, effective, and world leading.
Award Details
- The announcement of the Award finalists and the Awards dinner will provide an opportunity for celebration and networking with others throughout varied areas of business and expertise. All Award finalists will receive:
- 2 tickets to attend the Awards dinner
- a certificate of achievement
- inclusion in the Awards collateral and communications programme.
- A representative for each finalist in the Biosecurity Community Award and Biosecurity Kura (School) Award will also have their travel and accommodation costs to attend the Awards dinner met by the programme.
- Award winners will receive:
- a trophy and certificate of achievement
- a chance to say a few words at the dinner ceremony
- inclusion in the Awards collateral, media and communications programme.
- The New Zealand Biosecurity Community Award and the Biosecurity Kura (School) Award winners will each receive a cash prize of $2,500.
Award Categories
- Community Award: Open to individuals and groups including community and sporting groups.
- Maori Award: Open to whanau, hapu, iwi, and Maori organisations.
- Kura (School) Award: Open to teams, classes, ropu and enviro-groups in early childhood centres, primary, intermediate and secondary schools.
- Industry Award: Open to groups, organisations, or individuals in business or industry.
- Eagle Technology Local and Central Government Award: Open to groups or individuals working in local, regional and central government organisations and agencies.
- Bioprotection Aotearoa Science Award: Open to groups or individuals doing research in a business, tertiary institution, industry, or government.
- Mondiale VGL Innovation Award: Innovation is about using new approaches or technologies (including social measures) rather than applying widely used measures effectively. All entries are eligible for this Award but you must complete additional submission material on your entry form.
- New Zealand Biosecurity AsureQuality Emerging Leader Award:
- Open to individuals under 35 years old.
- This Award recognises an emerging leader from the New Zealand biosecurity system and is open to individuals under 35 years old who are already making a significant contribution to biosecurity in New Zealand.
- If you’re nominating someone for this Award, you must get their permission first.
- Minister’s Biosecurity Award:
- Open to individuals, groups or organisations with at least 10 years’ continuous work in biosecurity.
- This Award recognises an individual, group or organisation from the New Zealand biosecurity system that has at least 10 years of continuous outstanding contribution to biosecurity in New Zealand.
- If you’re nominating someone for this Award, you must get their permission first.
- New Zealand Biosecurity Supreme Award: All category winners are eligible for the New Zealand Biosecurity Supreme Award.
Why Enter?
- Pride and sense of achievement: Sometimes they forget to celebrate and recognise the people, projects, teams, businesses, and communities that are doing amazing things to protect New Zealand’s biosecurity system.
- Boost your profile: Raise your community, business, or personal profile. Finalists and winners may receive media coverage for their achievements. As a finalist or winner of a New Zealand Biosecurity Award 2021 you will gain invaluable recognition as an individual, organisation, school, hapu or industry delivering excellence in the area of biosecurity. This will support the positive image of your organisation, project, or associated work.
- Evaluated by the best: By entering or nominating an individual or organisation for an Award, you have the opportunity to be evaluated by a panel of highly-respected professionals and representatives from industry, government, iwi, and community.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Awards are open to groups, organisations, schools, industry, individuals, whanau, hapu, iwi, government agencies and councils.
- Your entry submission must be true and factually correct. You take full responsibility for the content of your submission or nomination.
- To enter the Awards you must complete an online entry registration, selecting the Award category you wish to enter.
- If you are completing an online entry on behalf of someone else you must have the prior consent of the entrant.
- You may apply to enter more than one category, but you must submit a separate entry registration for each category.
- Your entry submission must relate to a programme/project that was started, carried out or completed over the past 18 months (that is, since January 2020).
- Entry for the New Zealand Biosecurity AsureQuality Emerging Leader Award and the Minister’s Award are by nomination only.
- If you are submitting a nomination for the New Zealand Biosecurity AsureQuality Emerging Leader Award or the Minister’s Award, you must have the prior consent of the nominee.
- If you have entered the New Zealand Biosecurity Awards in previous years, you can enter these Awards. You can resubmit your previous entry providing it complies with these terms and conditions.
- Entry submissions open on Friday 2 July 2021 and close on Saturday 31 July 2021 at 5pm (NZST). Finalists will be announced on Friday 1 October 2021 and the winners announced on Monday 1 November 2021.
- There is no cost to submit an entry into the Awards. All travel related costs to attend the ceremony to announce the Award winners will be at the expense of the finalists, with the exception of a representative in the Community and Kura (School) Awards categories which MPI will cover.
- Where the entry is submitted by a team, the team must identify one person on the entry form as its representative. The representative must have authority to act on behalf of the team and will be the contact person for all communication with MPI.
- You agree to provide imagery to support your entry in the format requested by MPI.
- You agree to participate in any media, marketing and promotional activities associated with the Awards and the Awards ceremony, including photography and filming of the Awards ceremony, and you agree that these may be used by MPI for promotional and media purposes. Any such use will be entirely at the discretion of MPI.
- You agree to give MPI one week’s notice in writing if you, or a representative from your entry, are unable to attend the Awards ceremony.
- Awards judges cannot enter or be nominated in any category.
- If any Awards judge has a conflict of interest regarding any entry, that judge will not judge the category in which that entry is entered and scores for that category will be aggregated. MPI will decide whether there is a conflict of interest, its decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Sponsors are not privy to your entry submissions, judges’ decisions or the final results. Therefore, being a sponsor does not, in itself, create a conflict of interest.
- MPI reserves the right to cancel the Awards programme or any Award category, or to amend these terms and conditions, without prior notice.
- You (individual or organisation) must not be under investigation by any New Zealand or international statutory body (for example, Accident Compensation Corporation, New Zealand Police, Health and Disability Commission, Inland Revenue Department, Immigration, WorkSafe NZ or other).
- These terms and conditions are governed by and will be interpreted in accordance with the laws of New Zealand and the Courts of New Zealand will have exclusive jurisdiction.
- Privacy – MPI may collect personal information from you (such as your name, home/business address and email) for the purpose of facilitating your participation in the Awards, and for event management. It may be provided to other event-related organisations or entities (such as other event participants, event sponsors/partners and event contractors) for the purpose of event management or MPI may use it to contact you in the future for purposes relating to the Awards.
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