Deadline: 6-May-22
Nominations are now open for the Green Gown Awards 2022.
2022 Categories
- Organisational Categories:
- 2030 Climate Action – Prize for the winner(s) – sponsored by The Energy Consortium – inclusion in the International Green Gown Awards
- Benefitting Society – inclusion in the International Green Gown Awards
- Building Back Better
- Campus Health, Food and Drink
- Campus of the Future
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Sustainability – NEW
- Enterprise
- Money for Good
- Next Generation Learning and Skills – inclusion in the International Green Gown Awards
- Research with Impact (Institution)
- 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 – supported by Hillside Environmental Services
- Individual Categories:
- Research with Impact (Student)
- Sustainability Champion – sponsored by Salix
What’s New and Revised for 2022?
- New category – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Sustainability
- All categories – are updated to include challenges and opportunities that have happened due to the pandemic.
- Submit a video Link or up to 3 Images – recognising those initiatives that have a visual element
- And maintaining the recognition of those with limited budgets – with Small institution applications measured against an annual turnover of £50 million or below
2 Year Rule – Initiatives which won or were highly commended in the previous 2 years will not be considered for this year’s awards, unless they can provide evidence of further, significant improvement since the last application and this improvement is clearly documented in the application form. They could also consider applying to the Sustainability Institution of the Year category provided that there is evidence of further improvement since the last Award.
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.
- However, this will only be done when applications are of a high quality – it is not mandatory.
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 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.
For more information, visit https://www.greengownawards.org/green-gown-awards-uk-ireland