Evaluation Procedure & Timing

The evaluation will be a two-step process:

• Step 1: The organisers of the IIBCC 2012 will review all the eligible nominations and produce a list of eligible candidates which will be published on 15 June 2012.
• Step 2: An Award Committee nominated by the IIBCC 2012 will review the listed candidates and submissions and make the final decision.

The winning candidate, if any, will be informed no later than 15 August 2012.
The decisions of these sub-committees are final and no discussions of any kind will be accepted.

Evaluation Criteria

1. Scientific and technological excellence:
   1. Soundness of concept and quality of objectives (10 points).
   2. Progress beyond the state-of-the-art (10 points).
   3. Contribution to advancement of knowledge and technological progress (10 points).
   4. Appropriateness of the methodology (10 point).
   5. Relevance and completeness of results (10 points).
   6. Quality of supporting references (10 points).
2. Relevance to the industry (10 points).
3. Potential applicability (10 points).
4. Dissemination plans (10 points).
5. Relevance to the IIBCC (10 points).

All submissions will be individually assessed by each member of the Award Committee; a prioritised list will be established based upon the score obtained by the individual evaluation. In case two candidates obtain the same score, a teleconference will be organised among the members of the Award Committee to reach consensus of the winner. If this is not possible, both will be nominated and the financial prize will be divided in equal parts. If more than two candidates reach the same score, consensus of maximum two candidates must be reached by the members of the Award Committee during the teleconference.

Evaluation score: 0=Not possible to evaluate; 2=Poor; 4=Fair; 6=Good; 8=Very good; 10=Excellent