Global business awards
If you do something very well, we want to hear about it.
If you’ve been operating for two years or more and can demonstrate growth over the last year or more in any of our key areas, you’re eligible to apply for a DaVinci Award®. Download the simple form today to begin your application.
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Eligibility criteria
Accepting entries worldwide
You can nominate any of the following for a DaVinci Award® for excellence:
- Organization
- Product or Service
- Initiative or Project
- Business Department, Team or Person
Your organization must have been operating for at least two years, and be able to demonstrate growth over the last year for any of the eligibility criteria on the right.
You only need to be able to show growth/improvement in one of these areas to qualify.
You probably already know if your business should be eligible for a DaVinci Award®, and a long list of categories isn’t going to help with that. Our awards entry system is category-agnostic: we’ll assess any project, any business, anywhere. The DaVinci Awards® celebrates every function of business.
Eligibility criteria
Three levels of attainment
Our judging team will use your application form, any supplementary materials supplied, and their own research to decide if you are suitable to win an award.
Only the most exceptional candidates can achieve a Three-Star DaVinci Awards® honor.
How the judging works
Judging effectively takes place in two stages. In the first stage, our judges benchmark against recognized industry standards to determine which nominees are eligible to win an award. They will then go through to the ranked accreditation process.
In the second stage, nominees are benchmarked against each other. Typically, only the top 10% of successful nominees will be accredited with a Three-Star DaVinci Award®, the highest honor.
Rules of entry to The DaVinci Awards®
Complete rules of entry
- The DaVinci Awards® are open to organizations of any size and geographical location.
- The cost of each entry is USD$695. There are no extra charges should a nominee go on to win a trophy.
- The DaVinci Awards® team aims to give standardized feedback on every submission, excepting exceptional cases (e.g. blank form submission). The judges’ decisions are absolute and final, and no further correspondence will be entered into regarding decisions beyond any initial feedback given.
- Entries are invited from both client organizations and commercial service providers. Entries can be made independently, or as joint client/supplier submissions.
- The DaVinci Awards® accept nominations for, but are not limited to, any Organization; Product or Service; Initiative or Project; Business Department, Team or Person.
- Any pertinent activities during the 12 months preceding the closing date should be highlighted in your awards application.
- To be eligible to win a One Star, Two Star, or Three Star DaVinci Award®, nominated organizations must have been operating for two years or more, and must be able to illustrate growth over the last year or more in any one or more of the key eligibility areas: Profitability or Revenue, Customer base, Customer satisfaction, Number of staff, Staff satisfaction, Staff retention, Cross-border trade or Workforce diversity.
- When entries are submitted on behalf of clients by agencies or other parties, client sign-off is assumed. Once the entry has been submitted, no refund will be given if any issues arise concerning client sign-off.
- Entries must be submitted using the official entry form for that specific category and uploaded, along with relevant entry fee, on the website. Entries will not be accepted by any other means, and all questions on the entry form must be answered.
- Services, initiatives and projects may be entered more than once as appropriate. For fees, please see above. Similarly, if you are, for instance, a PR firm submitting on behalf of multiple organizations you will have to process them separately. Please note that different products/services/initiatives, even if submitted on behalf of the same organization, will incur a discrete set of costs.
- If insufficient details are given on any application, entrants may be eliminated from the judging. Similarly, submissions given in a document format different to that stipulated on the submissions form may be eliminated from judging.
- The judges reserve the right to re-classify entries if, in their opinion, another DaVinci Awards® segment (Business, Product, Technology, Lifestyle) would be more appropriate.
- Please pay attention to the website for details of submissions deadlines. If a global extension is given, this will also be displayed prominently on the site and in email communications we have with you. Once payment is submitted, entries are confirmed and non-refundable. Payments must be cleared within one week of the closing date. Once payment has been received, entry/ies will be passed for review to the judges.
- Any entry may be withdrawn for any reason up until 12 noon one week before the initial closing date upon written request to the organizers; however, any entry fees are non-refundable.
- Winners may be expected to take part in post-award promotional activities.
- Winners will typically be notified 6 weeks after the final closing date of entries to their respective DaVinci Awards® segment.
- Although every care is taken to mail out winners’ trophies with the correct address, The DaVinci Awards® team cannot be held responsible for trophies lost in the mail. Please note that winning organizations outside of the USA are currently ineligible to receive a physical trophy.
- The DaVinci Awards® team reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.
THE INFORMATION YOU SUPPLY
It is very important that you fully complete the entry form. The more information you supply, the more capably the judges will be able to assess your awards entry.
All information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence and will only be viewed by the judging panel and the Chair of Judges for the purposes of judging.
