Deadline: 3-Aug-22
Engagement Australia is pleased to announce the 2022 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards to celebrate the most exciting and impactful engagement activities undertaken by the Australian and New Zealand Higher Education sectors.
Award recipients will be announced at the Engagement Australia Awards ceremony in late 2022.
Award Categories
- Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
- Recognizing outstanding collaborations between tertiary education and communities for societal benefit. Emphasis is placed on partnerships that engage rural, regional, urban, disadvantaged or marginalized groups within Australia and New Zealand.
- Award for Excellence in Indigenous Engagement
- Recognizing outstanding collaborations between tertiary education and Indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand and beyond, that directly reduce di sadvantage, and empower and give voice to First Nations peoples.
- Award for Outstanding Engagement for Student Learning
- Recognizing partnerships and engagement practices that enhance the quality of learning and teaching in tertiary education and outcomes for students.
- Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact
- Recognizing excellence in research that makes a substantial difference to the community, or Australian or New Zealand prosperity, undertaken jointly by researchers in tertiary education institutes and partners in community, business or industry contexts
- Award for Excellence in Student and Alumni Engagement
- Recognizing outstanding programs that improve student and alumni engagement and enhance the quality and impact of higher education.
- Award for Excellence in International Engagement
- Recognizing outstanding international collaborations that raise the profile of tertiary education and make a substantial difference to the community both overseas and in Australia and New Zealand.
- Award for Outstanding Leadership in Engagement
- Recognising an individual who has made notable contributions to engagement above and beyond that expected for their role, resulting in sustained partnerships for longer term impact.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility guidelines for the Engagement Australia Awards:
- Any collaborative programs or projects involving one or more tertiary education institutions. and one or more industry, community or government partners.
- The roles of each party in the collaborative process must be clearly outlined.
- The term Industry partners’ includes publicly or privately-owned companies.
- The term ‘partners’ include federal, state and government departments, statutory authorities, industry associations, unions, not-for-profits and recognised community organisations.
- In addition to universities. tertiary education institutions may also include business schools or accredited higher education programs.
- Non-winning projects can be resubmitted in subsequent years however winning projects are not eligible for an Engagement Australia Award in subsequent years.
- Applications are deemed eligible if there is evidence of a genuine collaboration underpinning the work and if the project has produced impactful results.
- Applications will be judged only in the category for which they have been submitted.
- All criteria must be addressed
- Applicants may submit multiple applications per award category.
Criteria
Entries in any category might consider the following in the application:
- Demonstrate positive impact on the community
- Collaborative approach
- Innovation
- Demonstrated mutual benefits
- Institutional support
- Sustainability and scalability
For more information, visit https://engagementaustralia.org.au/engagement-australia-excellence-awards-2022-applications-now-open/