EUROFM AWARDS 2010 - HOW TO ENTER
The Fourth European FM Awards will be held in 2010 and presented at the EFMC 2010 conference and exhibition in Madrid 1-2 June 2010 at the annual gala dinner.
Entries are now invited for three categories:
Partners Across Borders
European FM Student of the Year
European FM Researcher of the Year
Entries in all categories in the European FM Awards should demonstrate best practice and excellence in European facilities management. Entries should also be able to demonstrate the challenge for facilities management of the national, cultural, regulatory and language differences across the European region. The language of these Awards in English, the common language of FM in Europe. Entrants should provide written material in English and be prepared to be interviewed in English.
Partners Across Borders Award:
Providing facilities management services across European national boundaries presents challenges of different languages, cultures, currencies, regulations, etc. This Award will recognise excellence in delivering facilities management services to an organisation located in more than one European country demonstrated by:
- Partnership between a corporate client and service provider/s
- The achievements of the partnership towards agreed goals
- The innovation introduced to deliver facilities management consistently and effectively
across European boundaries
- Entries should be submitted jointly by all partners
How to enter: provide a written description of not more than 1500 words describing the FM partnership. The entry can include photographs of the client site and relevant aspects of the services provided. The entry must be accompanied by a completed
application form
and emailed to by 19th February 2010.
European FM Student of the Year Award:
Today’s FM students in educational institutions across Europe are the future in European facilities management. This Award recognises their technical knowledge, international perspective and personality. Entries are open to Bachelors and Masters students at the end of their studies or in employment in the year of their graduation, or graduate students, studying in educational institutions in member countries of EuroFM. No entrant should be more than 30 years of age. Entrants must be nominated by a member of EuroFM.
How to enter: provide a 1,500 words description of the student’s
- academic achievements including an academic study/essay of their choice,
- international experience – work experience, international research, languages skills
- understanding of European FM issues
- aspirations as a future FM professional
The entry must be accompanied by a completed
application form
and emailed to by 19th February 2010.
Finalists will be invited to attend an interview with the judges. The travel costs of finalists to attend the interview will be paid for by EuroFM, together with free entry, two nights B&B accomodation and travel to attend EFMC2010. Finalists must attend the Gala Dinner at EFMC 2010 on Ist June 2010 in Madrid.
Prize:
The winner of the European FM Student of the Year Award will win free room and board, travel expenses and entrance to IFMA World Workplace 2010 conference in the USA.
European FM Researcher of the Year
This award will recognise the value of research being undertaken across Europe. The research must address the EuroFM research agenda and contribute to its overall objectives to ‘advance knowledge in FM and promote its effective application in practice and education’. Entrants should be able to show that their research has a European perspective by using data from more than one country or that it has European applications. The research should show achievable results be innovative and robust in its research methods.
Entrants should be researchers at EuroFM member institutions, or conducting research produced or sponsored by EuroFM and its corporate and institutional members, and be nominated by a department head or EuroFM national association member.
How to enter:Submit 1500 word description of the research project with a completed
application form and emailed to
by 19th February 2010.
Postgraduate researchers that have submitted abstracts for the EFMC2010 research symposium will be automatically considered for the award.
The judging process for all categories:
- Entries to all categories must be in English and accompanied by the entry form,
and sent to
.
- Entrants are asked to register your interest in entering for an Award by emailing
by Friday 12th February 2010. Entries close
on 19th February 2010.
- Three finalists will be selected for each category from among the entries received
- The finalists in the European FM Student of the Year and European Researcher of the Year will be invited to attend an interview with the judges. (Only the travel costs of finalists in the European FM Student of Year category will be paid for by EuroFM.)
- 6. Finalists in the Partners Across Borders category will be visited at their site by the team of judges who will interview the partners.
Full information on how to enter is also posted on the website of EuroFM
www.eurofm.org
and on
www.pfmonthenet.net
The Judges:
Each category will be judged by a team of expert judges selected by EuroFM. The
judges’ decisions are final.
The Presentation:
All finalists in the European FM Awards must attend the presentation dinner at EFMC 2010 in Madrid on 1st June 2010.