What ?

2020 APEC YES Challenge is oriented in the following principles.

*As the official language of APEC, English will be used during all activities of 2020 APEC YES Challenge.

Who ?

2020 APEC YES Challenge welcomes all undergraduate and postgraduate students with mentors.
At least two students and one mentors for each team, however, limited by five students, and three mentors who are not limited in academic circle.
The teams in the preliminary round can be recommended by the related APEC member economies.
We suggest that teams may consist of interdisciplinary members.

Each team is supposed to upload two A4 pages of the preliminary plan that matches with the requirements of competition. Please download the format of the preliminary plan from our website, finish it and upload it before ~~30 June 2020~~ 31 July 2020. Max 5MB PDF file.
Format link : Download
Fill out a registration form online including an overview of your preliminary ideas based on the following points :
The key contexts of your community problems

The descriptions of problem contexts and the business ecosystem of your community.

Your strategy of problem solving

The stakeholders, resources and strategic analyses.

The potential impact while the project being executed

The feasibilities of social innovation, social entrepreneurship and environmental innovation.

The chairman of referee committee of ACABT will invite ten academic and business specialists of green economy across APEC economies to score the preliminary plans. Each referee will score 100 points based on the following four principles. The chairman will organize the committee, not directly scoring by case, but be engaged in judging the tie-up situations through implementing simple voting.
- Innovative Insights (25 pts) : Capable of finding key community problems related to social and environmental issues of green economy or green energy.
- Context Reasoning (25 pts) : Capable of reasoning the contexts of problems and their long-term influences.
- Feasibility of Innovation (25 pts) : Capable of proposing innovative and feasible ideas, methods, activities, or business models for solving the problems.
- Changes and Impacts (25 pts) : Capable of mapping the changes of and impacts on community after the project implementation.
Notices
- All scores will be summed up. The top 20 teams, in which no more than 2 teams in each APEC economy, will be enrolled in the semi-final. APEC ACABT will publish the enrolled list on ~~20 July 2020~~ 20 August 2020. ACABT has the right and final decision to select the funding teams.

MOOC guidebook will be published on ~~17 July 2020~~ 20 August, 2020 after 2pm (GMT+8) including the requirements of courses, materials, procedure, work formats, learning frequency, time intervals, norm and standard of scoring. The learning activities are:
- Actively participating and mutually sharing on the MOOC in two modules of learning.
- Presenting the learning result, uploading a film of no more than 2 minutes (expected to present it in form of ppt, prezi, keynote, or video; etc.).

Module	Time period	Content
Module 1	~~2020/07/25 - 08/24~~ 2020/08/25 - 09/25	Clear vision and mission, problem and opportunity identification, exceptional leadership and team building
Module 2	~~2020/08/25 - 09/24~~ 2020/09/26 - 10/25	Stakeholder communication, ecosystem evaluation and adequate resources and funding searching. Technology-based products, innovative service models and expertise, including knowledge and management skills (basic accounting, marketing, and so on)

The online scoring will be weighted in following categories :
- Content (50 pts)：The referees will be randomly grouped in two modules to score the content of learning requirements according to the four principles of preliminary round at the end of each module time period. The content is concluded the essays of Module1&2 and learning result video.
- Participation (30 pts)：The module-grouped referees score the participation quantity and quality according to the requirements in the MOOC guidebook.
- Peer Review (20 pts)：The teams review and score each other according to the requirements of the MOOC guidebook.
Notices
- The finalist list of 2020 APEC YES Challenge will be published on 10 November 2020. The offline final pitch will be held in Chinese Taipei on December 18-21. ACABT will subsidy 2 participants for each finalist teams to join the event. It is included the round-trip airfare (economic class), accommodation and the meals as shown in the schedule. ACABT welcomes other team members to participate in the final pitch at their own expenses.

Final Pitch is divided into 2 parts (Online and Offline). For the online final pitch, please upload Final Pitch Proposal or a film of no more than 2 minutes (expected to present it in form of ppt, prezi, keynote, or video; etc.)
For the offline Final Pitch: Attend a 3-day Event in Taichung, including a workshop, offline final pitch presentation and demo site visit/technical tour.

Time period	Content
~~2020/10/15 - 11/15~~ 2020/11/10 - 11/30	Entrepreneurial performance demonstrated in community readiness, capability/capacity building, cost-effective business modeling, co-created benefits sharing, knowledge prevalence by problem solving and the awareness of behavior change

Notices
- The organizer may cancel the qualification of any team at any time if they are found to get involved in counterfeiting, plagiarism, etc., and will be disqualified from all kinds of awards.
- The published works will be selected and presented on the official websites.

Online Final Pitch
The online scoring will be weighted in the following categories :
- Content (20 pts)：The referees will score the content of the learning requirements according to the four principles of preliminary round at the end of the module time period.
- Participation (5 pts)：The referees score the participation quantity and quality according to the requirements in the MOOC guidebook.
- Peer Review (5 pts)：The teams review and score each other according to the requirements of the MOOC guidebook.
Offline Final Pitch
The offline presentations at the Final Pitch (70 pts): Including workshop reports, business plans and on-site presentations. (The program and scoring rules will be published after the finalist announcement.)