Recognition & Reward
- Outstanding Community Project Award (one cash prize of HK$10,000)
- Outstanding Green Project Award (one cash prize of HK$10,000)
- Two Honorable Mentions for each of the community and green project category
Winners of the Outstanding Community and Green Project Award will be entitled to display the official HSBC Living Business Awards logo for three years and also have a chance to enjoy publicity and advertising in the media. Recipients of the honorable mention in each of the community and green project category will be awarded a certificate, but they will not be entitled to display the HSBC Living Business Awards logo.
Eligibility
Any SME that started business in Hong Kong no later than 1 January 2008 is eligible to participate in the HSBC Living Business Awards 2009.
For the purpose of these awards, an ‘SME’ is defined as a manufacturing enterprise with fewer than 100 employees or a non-manufacturing enterprise with fewer than 50 employees in Hong Kong.
An ‘employee’ refers to a full-time employee who is working in Hong Kong.
Applicants can submit more than one entry each year for each project category. However, only the best entry in each award category from the same applicant will be selected for detailed assessment.
Winning projects in any given year will NOT be considered for an award in the same category for the next three years. However, companies with winning projects are allowed to submit other projects for the same award category.
Judging Criteria
Projects submitted will be assessed based on the following seven criteria:
- Scope
- Relevance
- Innovation
- Benefits to the community / environment
- Effectiveness
- Sustainability
- Practicability
Judging Process
There are four steps in the judging process:
- Eligibility review
- Preliminary assessment
- Detailed assessment
- Final judging
Award Tmeline
| Application deadline |
29 May 2009 |
| Eligibility review |
May – June 2009 |
| Preliminary assessment |
June 2009 |
| Detailed assessment |
June – July 2009 |
| Final judging |
August 2009 |
| Award presentation |
October 2009 |
How to participate
Applicants can be self-nominated or nominated by a non-profit organization or an HSBC Living Business Ambassador. Please complete the application form and submit it to BEC on or before 29 May 2009. For enquiries, please call (852) 2784 3936 / 2822 4947 or email livingbusiness@bec.org.hk.
Application forms
Further details
Please refer to the HSBC Living Business website (www.hsbc.com.hk/livingbusiness) for more details about the HSBC Living Business Awards 2009.