Preamble

The ACC50 Sam van Embden Award is a unique award to commemorate and celebrate 50 years of ISOCARP. The ACC50 Award will be awarded only once, in 2015 at the ISOCARP World Planning Congress.

To Whom?

The ACC50 Award will be given to people, not necessarily members, who gave a huge contribution to the discipline, to the sustainable development of space or place during the last decades. This award can result in a better knowledge of our discipline and our organisation.

Categories

There will be three categories of Awards:

1. for a (living) person active in the world of planning, practitioner or academic;
2. for a public or private sector organisation (including universities, consultants, NGOs);
3. for a city or a region.

The award meets multiple objectives:

1. exposure to new ideas and practices for our membership;
2. recognition of planning excellence;
3. promotion of ISOCARP values;
4. increased recognition of ISOCARP; and
5. membership recruitment.
6. With three awards, there is enough “content” for a Congress session and/or presentation event.

Criteria for the Choices

Criteria will be activities related to “Knowledge for better Cities”:

• The improvement of the living conditions of people
• The initiation of ‘change, innovation, new visions and concepts’, innovative actions/events
• Extraordinary publications/plans/projects/research
• The creation of a great public interest
• The importance/influence of an activity.

Registration Fee

No registration fees

Jury of the Award

The ACC50 committee + the VP Awards will propose a short list and give an advice to the Executive Committee who makes the final choice.

Application Procedure

Content of your proposal:
– Your name as a member or the country of the National Delegation who nominates
– The name of the person, and/or the organization, and/or the project you nominate
– Information about your nomination and the reasons why you nominate them.

For further information please contact Jef Van den Broeck (jef.vdbroeck@pandora.be), chairman of the ACC50 Committee.
Please send your proposal to kurth@isocarp.org (copy to jef.vdbroeck@pandora.be).
Deadline: 31 July 2015.

Substance of the Award

Three candidates, one for each category, are going to be selected as winners by the Jury.  They will have free entrance to the congress, free accommodation and will receive an official ISOCARP certification of the award.