Criteria for annual awards
Would you like to have a chance of winning one of the annual prizes that the NLF awards to students of intermediate (MBO), higher vocational (HBO) and university studies for exceptional performance? Then it's good to know what criteria the jury looks at when assessing entries. Here are the most important ones:
Excellence
a. Purpose
Is the actual purpose of the project or work clear and for whom or what it is intended?
b. Innovation
What is innovative about the project or work? Is it something completely new or is it intended to replace, adapt or extend something that already exists?
c. State of the art
Has the student used new insights, methods, processes and/or materials?
d. Quality
Has the student submitted a project or work of sufficient quality and clearly written down and visualised everything directly related to the topic?
Impact
a. Outcome
Will the outcome of the project or work bring about a change in the sector, in
technological, legal, economic or general sense?
b. Relevance
How relevant is the outcome of the project or work? Does it connect to a desire or task for the sector or is it ‘more of the same’?
c. Renewal
Does the project or work give a new perspective on industry practice or the vision of parties in the industry?
The jury assesses the two criteria via a score from 0 to 5 (half points are allowed).
0 - Does not meet the criteria at all
1 - Poor: does not meet or barely meets the criteria
2 - Fair: meets the criteria in a superficial sense, but clearly does not touch all facets
3 - Good: meets the criteria reasonably well, but still has several shortcomings
4 - Very good: meets the criteria adequately, but with a few shortcomings
5 - Excellent: meets, with possibly minimal deficiencies, all relevant aspects of the criteria