Eligibility

SGAC wishes to recognise space organisations that support the young generation 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 organisation needs also to represent the SGAC mission in at least two of the 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 nomination is encouraged by the wider SGAC community.

Jury Panel

The Jury Panel is formed of:

• SGAC Executive Director
• SGAC Co-Chairs
• 2 Selected Volunteers from the SGAC Executive Committee

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

Evaluation Process

• The Jury Panel evaluates and selects the winner, providing rationales for the choices

Timeline

• 1 May – 30 June: Call for nomination is open
• 15 – 30 June: Call for judges
• 1 July – 14 July: Membership Manager sets up the evaluation documents
• 15 July – 30 July: Evaluation period
• 31 July: Announcement and Notice to the awardee
• Space Generation Congress Closing Dinner: Public announcement – To be confirmed