2021Guidelines

What ?

2021 APEC YES Challenge is oriented in the following principles.

 
  • Based on science and technology.
  • Present the issues of green economy and renewable energy.
  • Solve community problems.
  • Participate in mutual learning.
  • Integrate the concepts of Green Synergy Solutions for Green Energy.
  • Promote social entrepreneurship.
  • Integrate online activities.
  • Develop total and simple solutions.
  • Provide benefits for all stakeholders.
 
*As the official language of APEC, English will be used during all activities of 2021 APEC YES Challenge.

Who ?

 
  •  2021 APEC YES Challenge welcomes all undergraduate,graduate 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 from related APEC member economies are especially welcomed to attend YES Challenge.
  •  We suggest that teams may consist of interdisciplinary members.
 
 

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 25 October 2021. 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.

Your strategy of problem solving

The stakeholders, resources and strategic analyses.
 
 

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.
    • 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
    • There will be maximum 20 teams, in which no more than 2 teams in each APEC economy, enrolled in the semi-final. APEC ACABT will publish the enrolled list on 1 November 2021. ACABT has the right and final decision to select the funding teams.
 
 

Semi-Final Round

There will be 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 in a module 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.).
 
 
  • There will be 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 in a module 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.).
 
 

Marking Criteria

 
 
  • The online scoring will be weighted by content(100 pts), including the following categories :
    • 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
    • The finalist list of 2021 APEC YES Challenge will be published on 9 December 2021.
 
 

Final Round

For the online Final Pitch, please upload Final Pitch slides (ppt, prezi or keynote) and a film (video) of no more than 2 minutes.The uploadinng sites of the Final Pitch files is announced in the News.
 
 
  • 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 by content and oral presentation, including the following categories :
     

    Content (50 pts)

        • Context Reasoning : Capable of reasoning the contexts of problems and their long-term influences.
        • Feasibility of Innovation : Capable of proposing innovative and feasible ideas, methods, activities, or business models for solving the problems.
        • Changes and Impacts : Capable of mapping the changes of and impacts on community after the project implementation.

     

    Oral presentation (50 pts)

     

      • Performance( 25 pts)
      • Q & A (25 pts)

    ** The pitch schedule will be announced on December 23.

    ** The online final pitch will be held on December 24.

    ** ACABT has the final decision to select the winning and awarded teams.

    Innovative Insights : Capable of finding key community problems related to social and environmental issues of green economy or green energy.