This category focuses on the best scientific research, either individual or collective, in the field of environment and sustainable development, through which innovative scientific and practical solutions to current and future environmental problems and challenges have been put forward.
Sub-categories:
Environmental Research Institute Award: Targeting research in the field of environmentally sustainable development, submitted by research institutions located in emirate of Abu Dhabi
- Eligibility Criteria:
- The work of the Research Institute should be related (Directly or Indirectly) to having a clear, positive impact on environmental sustainability and environmental management
- Participating research institutes are required to have been in operation for at least five years in Abu Dhabi and can offer evidence of its work addressing environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities pertinent to the challenges
- The research institute’s research programmes are subjected to assessment and further development
- Direction:
- What is the research institute leaders’ role in the development and communication of environmental sustainability principles, policies and strategic targets?
- What is the role of the research institute's leaders in promoting and supporting an ethical culture, both within its approach to environmental stewardship and across its researchprogrammes?
- What is the research institute’s strategic approach to selecting and funding research projects that address the environmental sustainability priorities and targets for Abu Dhabi?
- What is the research institute’s approach to understanding the needs and expectations of funders, beneficiaries and the wider community regarding the impact, scalability, direction and longer-term consequences of its environment research programmes?
- What high level performance measures does your research institute use to effectively manage its environmental sustainability focused research programmes for delivering applied, impactful, scalable solutions?
- In what ways does the research institute scan the horizon to seek the potential for conducting further research that would address Abu Dhabi’s environmental challenges and opportunities?
- Execution:
- How does the research institute manage, monitor and review its environmental sustainability principles and policies across the organisation’s performance?
- How does the research institute promote and reinforce its environmental sustainability principles and policies within its funding decisions?
- How does the research institute promote and reinforce its environmental sustainability principles and policies in its relationships with key stakeholders?
- How does the Research Institute keep track of its performance against externally required standards, regulations and legal obligations related to Environmental Sustainability?
- How does the research institute keep track of its performance in relation to the implementation of an ethical framework within its organisational culture and across the management and execution of its environmental sustainability focused research programmes?
- How does the research institute attract, develop and retain its academic/research staff and ensure they are, and remain, leading edge in their thinking on how they can further support its environmental sustainability focused research programmes and Abu Dhabi with its environmental challenges and opportunities?
- How does the research institute monitor and evaluate ongoing engagement and feedback for its environmental sustainability research programmes with its funders, beneficiaries and communities to ensure appropriate outcomes and impactful benefits are achieved?
- How does the research institute leverage data, information, knowledge and new technologies, to support its Environmental Sustainability focused research programmes/projects that will benefit a wider research community?
- Results:
- What measurable results is your research institute achieving in relation to the satisfaction and fulfilment of its funders’ needs and expectations in supporting research programmes that contribute to addressing Abu Dhabi’s environmental challenges and opportunities?
- What measurable results is your research institute achieving in relation to how its staff and students view the commitment of the institute’s leaders to driving impactful environmental sustainability benefits for Abu Dhabi?
- What measurable results is your research institute achieving regarding its compliance with governance requirements and legal obligations from funders and statutory bodies?
- What measurable results is your research institute achieving in meeting the needs and expectations of its beneficiaries, and the wider community, where it is impacted, by the institute’s environmental sustainability research programmes?
- What measurable results is your research institute achieving in working collaboratively with external partners to drive impactful research outcomes and solutions for the benefit of Abu Dhabi?
- What measurable results is your research institute achieving with respect to securing and utilising funding to best effect for research programmes that address Abu Dhabi’s environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities?
- What external measurable results have been achieved by the research institute over the past five years that demonstrate impactful contributions to addressing Abu Dhabi’s environmental challenges and opportunities?
- What evidence can the research institute offer in terms of receiving external recognition as a driving force for impactful and scalable research outcomes and benefits in successfully addressing Abu Dhabi’s environmental challenges and opportunities?
Environmental Research Projects Award: Targeting research in the field of environmentally sustainable development, submitted by researchers working in Abu Dhabi Emirate
- Eligibility Criteria:
- The candidate(s) should be the author(s) of the research
- Applications from co-authored projects are welcome provided all authors meet the eligibility criteria for residency in Abu Dhabi.
- The research project should be related (directly or indirectly) to:
- Solving the challenges or problems faced by Abu Dhabi in minimising negative impacts in the environmental field
- Solving the challenges or problems faced by Abu Dhabi in preserving natural resources and energy in the environmental field
- Proposing the correct treatment of an environmental problem faced by Abu Dhabi, providing the best solutions or alternatives to this problem
- The submitted research should be published and peer-reviewed, and no more than five years have passed since its first publication
- Priority is given to research published in credible journals
- The research findings and recommendations can be applied and have a clear impact on environmental sustainability and environmental management in Abu Dhabi
- Direction:
- Why was this project and its research questions significant and relevant to addressing the environmental challenges and opportunities in Abu Dhabi?
- Why was this project considered to be original in addressing the environmental challenges and opportunities in Abu Dhabi?
- At the start of the project, what did you anticipate would be the practical value, impact and benefits delivered by the project for the different stakeholder groups? And why?
- Who were the main beneficiaries/funders of the project and why did they decide to buy into the research project objectives?
- At the start of the project, what did you do to ensure the integrity of the research approach and its potential impact on ethical practices in relation to beneficiaries,unders and the wider community?
- Execution:
- Throughout the project, what were the main challenges you faced and how did you overcome them, including access to information, staying within research integrity guidelines, gaining consent and any other governance issues?
- In what ways did your approach to the collection and use of data enable the project to be original whilst respecting ethical practices?
- Throughout the project, how did you balance the needs, expectations and dynamics of the different research project stakeholders?
- How did you test the practical viability of the research outcomes and where appropriate, the opportunity to generalise results and potential scalability?
- How did you manage the communication of research outcomes, benefits and value to beneficiaries/funders and the wider society?
- How did you manage lessons learnt as the project progressed, e.g., changes to the research approach, original research questions or stakeholder management, including any negative impacts?
- Results:
- What is the evidence that the research outcomes brought practical benefits and made significant, impactful contributions to addressing Abu Dhabi’s environmental challenges and opportunities?
- What is the evidence that demonstrates that the impact and relevance of the research outcomes made an important theoretical contribution to addressing Abu Dhabi’s environmental challenges and opportunities, e.g., publications, citations, awards, number of reads/downloads?
- What is the evidence that applied innovative solutions to addressing the environmental challenges and opportunities in Abu Dhabi were delivered by this project?
- What is the evidence that the research project and its outcomes met or exceeded the expectations of Funders, and was perceived to deliver value?
- What is the evidence that the research project and its outcomes met or exceeded the expectations and needs of Beneficiaries and other interested communities?
- Did the applied solutions from the research result in any negative impacts and if so, please describe them and how you proposed they should be addressed in the future?
Application form will be available (May 28, 2023)
