Registration & Preliminary Round

• 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.

Final Pitch

• 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.

Marking Criteria

• 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.)
• Notice on ICT Needs funding
• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic circumstances, no cross-border travel is required for the event this year. The Speakers/Experts/Participants (funded by APEC Project) who need to travel from oversea to Chinese Taipei will participate in the form of the virtual meeting without any funded travel expenses including airfare and per diem or any other related expenses.
  APEC Secretariat will only be able to provide funding for ICT needs on a case-by-case basis for invited active Participants who are sited in remote areas where Wi-Fi/communication networks are not robust. Please read the important information as follows:
• Number of persons to be nominated to apply the ICT needs items on a case by case basis for APEC funded Project PPSTI 06 2019A
• • Maximum 2 persons from each of the 11 travel-eligible economies, are eligible to apply for the ICT needs
  • Please note that if one economy has more than one team selected as the finalist team for the Offline Project-based Training Program, then each team will only nominate one person of each team. While one economy has only one team selected as the finalist team for the Offline Project-based Training Program, then this team could nominate 2 persons.
  • The APEC travel eligible economies are Chile, the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Peru, the Russian Federation, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
• Only fund ICT needs items on case by case basis without any travel expenses and related expenses
• The ICT items include mini-cameras for laptops, mini desk-top speakers, SIM cards for strong Wi-Fi connection and should not cost more than US$20. Anything beyond this amount should be on rental basis and returned to APEC Secretariat as its funding assets.
• Procedure to apply the ICT needs fund
• • The teams applying for the ICT needs are required to inform APEC-ACABT the information of the nominee(s) via email (joycewang.acabt@gmail.com, Ms. Joyce Wang) before approaching APEC Secretariat by 14 November 2020.
  • After the status of applicants has been approved by the Project Overseer, APEC-ACABT will assist the nominee(s) and the nominee(s) to proceed the further action on the follow-up matters.
  • Nominee(s) is to submit a strong justification for the need to purchase these items, and to submit three quotations to the APEC Secretariat Program Director for approval before purchase.

**Please note that ACABT has the right and final decision to select the funding teams. **