Deadline: 3 June 2020
Applications are now open for the 2020 Green Gown Awards that will recognise those institutions, both large and small, that have made a difference.
The Green Gown Awards are open to all post-16 educational institutions (further or higher education institutions, work-based or adult and community learning providers) in the UK and Ireland.
Categories
- Organisational Categories:
- 2030 Climate Action – NEW with REVISED Criteria – sponsored by The Energy Consortium
- Benefitting Society – inclusion in the International Green Gown Awards
- Campus Health, Food and Drink – REVISED
- Campus of the Future
- Enterprise – REVISED – sponsored by CUBO
- Money for Good
- Next Generation Learning and Skills
- Research with Impact (Institution) – sponsored by Emerald Publishing
- Student Engagement – inclusion in the International Green Gown Awards
- Sustainability Institution of the Year – inclusion in the International Green Gown Awards – sponsored by EAUC
- Tomorrow’s Employees
- Reporting with Influence – REVISED (previously Total Reporting)
- Individual and Team Categories:
- Outstanding Leadership Team of the Year
- Research with Impact (Student)
- Sustainability Champion – sponsored by Salix
All categories will be awarded to the lead institution with the exception of the Individual and Team categories – Research with Impact Award (Student), Sustainability Champion (Staff and Student), Outstanding Leadership Team of the Year Award – which recognise an individual or team within an institution.
Criteria
- If you are an institution outside of the UK and Ireland then you can enter a regional Green Gown Award (e.g. Australasia, French speaking) or if your institution is outside of those regions you can enter the International Green Gown Awards.
- Applications are also encouraged from third parties such as catering suppliers, waste companies, transport providers, accommodation providers, architects etc. working or partnering with post-16 educational institutions. Third party organisations may enter on behalf on an institution, but an institution employee must approve the application. The Award will be made to the institution and not to the third party organisation unless when filling out the application form, you have stated how the partnership should be named in the communication, if selected, as a Finalist.
- 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 or below). However, this will only be done when applications are of a high quality – it is not mandatory.
- 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 above 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 above 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
- Small institution criteria is measured against an annual turnover of £50 million
For more information, visit https://www.greengownawards.org/green-gown-awards-uk-ireland
