Call for nominations: APRSAF Special Award for Long-term Contributions

To mark the 30th year anniversary of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF), the APRSAF Special Award for Long-term Contributions has been founded for the APRSAF-30 meeting to be held in Perth, Australia. Now the call is open.

Since its onset in 1993, APRSAF has played a pivotal role in strengthening regional collaboration for space development, providing an open and flexible platform for concrete actions to address both global and regional issues. The APRSAF Special Award for Long-term Contributions honors individuals who have made long-term or significant contributions to the APRSAF activities. The award will be an opportunity for the APRSAF community to reflect on its achievements in the past three decades and make a new path forward.

To apply, please see the award eligibility requirements and submission guide shown below. The deadline for nominations is 25 October 2024. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at awardaprsaf.org.

APRSAF Special Award for Long-term Contributions: Eligibility Requirements and Submission Guide

1. Purpose

The APRSAF Special Award for Long-term Contributions is to commemorate the 30th year anniversary of APRSAF, honoring individuals who have made long-term or significant contributions to the APRSAF activities.

2. Eligibility

Any individual or group of individuals who have made significant or long-time contributions to APRSAF’s activities listed below are eligible. A candidate may not nominate himself or herself. Posthumous nominations are accepted. To nominate an organization, please regard it as a group of individuals, specifying its key personnel who made major contributions.

(1)

Space Applications Working Group (SAWG)

(2)

Enhancement of Space Capability Working Group (SCWG)

(3)

Space Frontier Working Group (SFWG)

(4)

Space Policy and Law Working Group (SPLWG)

(5)

Space Industrial Workshop (SIWS)

(6)

"Space Education for All" Working Group (SE4A WG)

(7)

Sentinel Asia

(8)

Space Applications for Environment (SAFE) initiative

(9)

Kibo-ABC

(10)

National Space Legislation Initiative (NSLI)

(11)

Others including the past activities

3. Selection

Awardees are evaluated and selected by the APRSAF Executive Committee (ExCom).

4. Announcement

Announcement of awardees is made at the APRSAF Award website including names and brief description of contributions. Award recipients are honored on-line or in-person at the APRSAF-30 plenary, which will be held in Perth, Australia from 26-29 November 2024. The APRSAF registration fee will be waived but travel support will not be provided.

5. Submission and Selection Schedule

(1)

Application Period: 10-25 Oct 2024

(2)

Review of Applications by APRSAF ExCom: 1-13 Nov 2024

(3)

Announcement of Awardees: Mid Nov 2024

6. Submission

(1)

Nominations must be submitted via email, in English, and contain the following items:

(a) Completed nomination form, including

• Nominator’s name, affiliation, title, address, phone number, and email.
• Nominee’s name, affiliation, title, address, phone number, and email.

(b) A narrative nomination, not to exceed 500 words, addressing the following areas:

• Significance, quality and impact of contributions, or
• Years (duration) of significant effort

(c) Resume or curriculum vitae of nominee.

(2)

Supporting letters are not necessary.

(3)

Nomination package must be submitted to awardaprsaf.org.

(4)

The deadline for nominations is 25 October 2024.