Call for Nominations: Green Gown Awards (UK and Ireland)

Categories

• Organisational Categories:
  • 2030 Climate Action
  • Benefitting Society
  • Campus Health, Food and Drink
  • Creating Impact
  • Digital Futures
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Sustainability
  • Money for Good
  • Nature Positive
  • Next Generation Learning and Skills
  • Research with Impact (Institution)
  • Student Engagement
  • Sustainability Institution of the Year
  • Tomorrow’s Employees
  • Reporting with Influence
• Individual and Team Category:
  • Sustainability Champion

Award Information

• 2030 Climate Action
  • Amount: Maximum of £8,500.

Eligibility Criteria

• All categories are open to any tertiary education establishment – including all post-16 educational institutions such as colleges, universities, research centres and learning and skills institutions.
• Specific categories are also aimed at student applications and 3rd party applications.
• If you are a small institution, they really encourage you to apply. The annual turnover threshold is now set at £100 million or below. Judges are allowed discretion to award up to 2 winners for each category to distinguish between large and small institutions. However, this will only be done when applications are of a high quality – it is not mandatory.
• The Sustainability Institution of the Year category will include a live, virtual judging round via Microsoft Teams at stage 2. They would expect representation from senior management, curriculum, operations and student representation (limited to no more than 5 representatives in total) as this will enhance and verify the whole institution approach for this category.
• You can apply with as many projects as you like, but a project can only be entered into one category only.
• 1 Year Rule – Initiatives which won or were highly commended in the previous 1 year 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.

Judging Criteria

• Innovative plans for achieving net-zero.
• Focus on achieving Scope 1 and 2 emissions initially with Scope 3 in the horizon.
• How do you know you are getting there? Outline what steps are being taken in the area of measurement and verification of impact of efforts on the progress towards net-zero.
• What steps are being taken on mitigation and adaptation?
• Actions that can be scalable and transferable to other institutions and across the sector.
• Plans and actions that are looking at the whole institution and holistic approach.
• Examples of using internal research and academic knowledge in helping advance actions.
• Examples of working in partnership within your local community and other stakeholders.

For more information, visit EAUC.