Eligibility

SGAC wishes to recognise space organisations that support the young generation by carrying at least two of the following:

 Support space-related youth organisations and programmes by:

• Providing support and/or funding
• Providing support and/or offering Sponsorships of events
• Showing availability to reach out and advise space start-ups and/or offer mentoring programs.

 Have internal programmes for the youth (i.e. training, mentorship, financial support for continual development):

• Award scholarships and grant programmes for its employees
• Provide training and educational programmes for its employees
• Support mentoring programmes within the organisation

 Proactively inspire the youth (both internally and externally) by:

• Having a mission that inspires the next generation of space professionals
• Promoting positive work environment culture
• Conducting outreach, educational and motivational activities

 Connect space communities worldwide for:

• Supporting discussion and enabling networking opportunities worldwide
• Being proactively open to partnerships and cooperation for projects

Alignment to SGAC’s mission

To be eligible, the organisations needs also to represent the SGAC mission in at least two of these following criteria:

• Empowering its young professionals with real responsibilities within the organisation
• Embracing and promoting diversity (generational, geographical, gender)
• Supporting SGAC’s activities and members

Nomination and Selection Rules

Who can nominate

• The wider SGAC community.

2022 SpaceGen Award timeline

• Now! : Call for nomination is open
• 30th of June 2022: End of the nomination period
• 1st – 31st of July 2022: Evaluation period
• 1st of August 2022: Announcement and Notice to the awardee
• 16th September 2022 – SGC Closing Dinner: Public announcement 

Jury Panel

• SGAC Executive Director
• 4 Selected Volunteers from the SGAC Executive Committee Teams

Evaluation Process

• The Jury Panel evaluates and shortlists 3 nominations, providing rationales for the choices
• The Board of SGAC (RCs + Co-Chairs) votes by majority one of the finalists. In case of tie vote, the Chair decides the winner.

Conflict of interest:

In order to avoid conflict of interests, Jury members will be asked to declare, and eventually abstain from evaluating, which nominations come from:

• Entities that they are currently employees of,
• Entities that they have worked for,
• Entities that they are actively seeking or envisioning employment from, up to six months after the evaluation period.

Are you interested in nominating an organisation? To support you write the best pitch, here the questions you will find in the Nomination Form

Questions:

Nominator:

• Full Name
• Date of Birth
• Nationality
• Gender
• Current Status
• Affiliation
• Role within SGAC (if any)

Nominee:

• Name of the Organisation
• Mission Statement and Vision of the organisation.

How is the Organisation a SpaceGen ambassador? (200 words)

Has this organisation contributed to SGAC before?

If yes, how?

Eligibility – Given the criteria listed in the Nomination Guidelines, please explain:
Which criteria do the organisation falls in? How it is so? (200 words)
How does the organisation align to SGAC mission? (200 words)

Other:
Why should SGAC prefer this organisation over others? Pitch us! (150 words)