ACT Environmental Education Excellence Awards

Nominations for the 2020 ACT Environmental Education Excellence Awards are now open.

Open category closed 3 August 2020 

Emerging Educator categories close 3 September 2020

The ACT Environmental Education Excellence Awards recognise individuals exhibiting leadership and making notable contributions to further environmental education, understanding, action, and agency.

In 2020, there are three AAEE ACT Environmental Education Excellence Awards

The 2020 ACT Environmental Education Excellence Award - Open
The 2020 ACT Emerging Environmental Education Excellence Award - within Schools
The 2020 ACT Emerging Environmental Education Excellence Award - within Community

The 2020 ACT Environmental Education Excellence Award - Open category.

The Open award is unrestricted, and any individuals are encouraged to apply for this category. 

This award recognises those who have demonstrated a positive impact in any context to improve environmental education outcomes.

The 2020 ACT Emerging Environmental Education Excellence Award - within Schools category.

The Schools category award is for individuals that have, within the past 5 years, demonstrated a positive impact or impacts within a tertiary, secondary, primary school or early years educational site to improve environmental and environmental education outcomes. For student participants, this award specifically recognises positive environmental outcomes as a criterion.

The 2020 ACT Emerging Environmental Education Excellence Award - within the Community category.

The Community category recognises individuals that have, within the past 5 years, demonstrated positive impact within their community context to improve environmental education outcomes.

Nominees may self-nominate but must provide a supporting referee. If a nomination is made on behalf of someone else, the nominator must advise if the nominee knows they are being nominated. Only awardees who are AAEE members can be considered for the ACT Open and National awards, however, in 2020 both the emerging educator awardees will be granted complimentary 1-year memberships.

To nominate yourself or a colleague for any of the 2020 awards, please send a brief written Expression of Interest ASAP to aaeeact@gmail.com

Key Dates

11 June - Nominations for awards open

3 August - Nominations for ACT awards close

National and ACT Annual General Meeting - All awards presented

Selection Criteria

The response to each criterion can be up to 350 words. This should be accompanied by details of two technical referees and the candidate's CV, which can be up to 500 words.

Nominations will be accepted which clearly demonstrate a positive impact in the field of Environmental Education. The impact can be at a worksite, business, program or organisation, in any state or territory, nationally and/or internationally.

The award panel’s selections will be based on the submission that best addresses the following criteria:

1. Has made a significant contribution to the field of Environmental Education. 

2. Has exhibited leadership or mentorship that has influenced others. 

3. Has led by example and 'walked the talk' in nature conservation, regeneration and/or sustainability.

4. Outline the connections of the candidate's work to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. https://sdgs.un.org/goals

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