Each team is supposed to upload two 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 by 2017/03/01.
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 competition rules will be announced in a MOOC guidebook published on 2017/03/01, including the requirements of courses, materials, procedure, work formats, learning frequency, time intervals, norm and standard of scoring. The learning and competition activities are:
- Actively participating and mutually sharing on the MOOC in three 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.) on 2017/06/10.

Module	Time period	Content
Module 1	2017/03/16 - 04/15	Clear vision and mission, problem and opportunity identification, exceptional leadership and team building
Module 2	2017/04/16 - 05/15	Stakeholder communication, ecosystem evaluation and adequate resources and funding searching
Module 3	2017/05/16 - 05/30	Technology-based products, innovative service models and expertise, including knowledge and management skills (basic accounting, marketing, and so on)

Notices
- Film Submission: Upload the film on YouTube and provide the links.
- Copyrights of all films and works belong to the authors, but the organizer has the right to use these materials for the purpose of public advantages.
- The accumulated points of each team will be constantly updated on a performance dashboard at any time.
- Each finalist team, 2 students and 1 mentor to join the final pitch, will be supported the flight (economic class) , accommodation and the local expenses.

Based on the same principles of semi-final to participate in MOOC, finish the module 4, and upload a film of no more than 2 minutes (expected to present it in form of ppt, prezi, keynote, or video; etc.)
Real Training and Presentation: Attend a 5-day training course in Chinese Taipei, including a workshop, a technical tour and the final pitch on the last day.

Module	Time period	Content
Module 4	2017/06/16 - 08/01	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

Marking Criteria

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 2017/03/15.

The online scoring will be weighted in following categories :
- Content (50 pts)：The referees will be randomly grouped in three modules to score the content of learning requirements according to the four principles of preliminary round at the end of each module time period.
- 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 teams of top 10, including two teams from Chinese Taipei on the finalist list will be published on 2017/06/15 to attend the final pitch. The final pitch will be held in the Feng Chia University, Taichung, Chinese Taipei.

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 (10 pts)：The referees score the participation quantity and quality according to the requirements in the MOOC guidebook.
- Peer Review (10 pts)：The teams review and score each other according to the requirements of the MOOC guidebook.
The offline presentations at the Final Pitch (60 pts): Including workshop reports, business plans and on-site presentations. (The program and scoring rules will be published after the finalist announcement.)