Award Categories

Best Cross-Border Collaboration
This award celebrates the most impactful cross-border innovation that connects innovators, partners, and/or investors across borders to co-create new ideas, exchange knowledge, technology and resources, to turn international partnerships and diverse perspectives into key drivers of success.

Best Technological Collaboration
This award honours the collaborative project that best harnesses the power of technology to positively disrupt the status quo to innovate and improve processes, products, or services and, thus, create new value for the collaborators and their customers.
Most Positive Workplace Collaboration
This award recognizes the collaborative nature of work between employer and employees and between teams to co-create and sustain a positive workplace culture to achieve optimal commercial and personal success. All nominations must include the results of a recent employee engagement survey from the last 18 months to substantiate them so that the voice of the customer is heard.
Most Scalable Collaboration
This award recognizes the collaboration with the methodology or process which can be most easily transferred within the same industry and/or across industries.
Most Sustainable Collaboration
This award celebrates the collaborative projects which result in the most positive impact on the environment to sustain human existence and our planet. It is open to all collaborations which help transition the economy to circular models of production and consumption. Non-exhaustive examples include collaborations which result in either a reduced carbon footprint, less pollution by the use of alternative energy sources, conserve resources, achieve recycling, preserve biodiversity and increase food security.