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European Fire Safety Award 2025 - Regulations

Regulations established may 2024

Article 1  Aims and goals

  1. The “European Fire Safety Award 2025” (EFSA 2025) is organised by the European Fire Safety Alliance (EuroFSA) and the Federation of European Fire Officers (FEU).
  2. The goal of EFSA 2025 is to reward the best community fire safety projects within Europe focused on: raising fire safety awareness, positively changing human behaviour, demonstrating innovation, and inspiring educational excellence in fire safety, submitted by a natural or a legal person based in Europe.

Article 2 – Applications

  1. Application is exclusively through the online application form available on the website of the European Fire Safety Alliance: eurofsa.org and must be submitted no later than January 15, 2025, 23:59.
  2. Only projects applications completed in accordance with the online application form are eligible for the EFSA 2025.
  3. Late applications will not be accepted.
  4. All projects submitted must have been concluded after 01/01/2023.
  5. Project application submissions must be in the English language.
  6. Project submissions must be clear, complete and concise.

Article 3 – Selection criteria

The projects will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  1. aims and objectives of the project/target group(s)/policy priorities (national or European)
  2. level of engagement with the community
  3. quality of the application (clarity, completeness, supplementary information)
  4. originality of the project concept
  5. innovation
  6. social added value (for the population)
  7. impact of the project (the impact on participants/participating organisations and externally/target group(s))
  8. dissemination activities
  9. reproducibility of the project
  10. sustainability (capacity to continue having an impact and producing results).

Article 4 –  Selection process

  1. The selection process consists of two stages:
  2. Stage I – The top three projects are shortlisted by a jury of three FEU experts appointed by the FEU Management Board.
  3. Stage II – the winning project is selected from the shortlist by a jury consisting of three members of the Core Group of the EuroFSA.
  4. During a closed meeting each jury assesses the projects based on the selection criteria specified in Article 3.
  5. No member of the Stage 1 jury will be appointed to the jury of stage 2.
  6. The decision of both juries is final, and no appeal is possible.
  7. The projects are assessed and treated strictly confidentially by the juries.
  8. The juries will decide by simple majority.
  9. The names of the individual jury members will not be announced.
  10. All projects will be displayed on the EuroFSA and FEU websites after the award ceremony for transparency and dissemination purposes.

Article 5 – Legal and ethical rules

  1. The author of the project is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the submitted information.
  2. The submitted application does not imply a transfer of copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise.
  3. EuroFSA and FEU reserve the right to use the submitted projects for publication and third party access, crediting the source.
  4. Applicants shall indemnify the FEU and the EuroFSA against all claims from third parties of copyright infringement arising from the submitted projects.
  5. Projects must comply with all applicable laws and refrain from containing content that could promote discrimination based on race, opinion, nationality, gender, profession or other beliefs.

Article 6 – Exclusions

  1. The FEU and the EuroFSA reserve the right to exclude a project if it has not been submitted on time, is not fully complete, or is inconsistent with one or more provisions of the regulations.
  2. Commercial projects/developments are not eligible for the EFSA 2025.
  3. Projects submitted under previous editions of the European Fire Safety Award cannot be submitted again.
  4. In any other matters not covered by these rules, the jury chairs will decide (Stage I and Stage II).

Article 7 –  Attendance at the Ceremony of the European Fire Safety Award 2025

  1. The shortlisted projects must be represented at the award ceremony.
  2. The costs of participation of one representative of each of the three shortlisted projects, including transport cost (flight or train tickets) as well as the accommodation cost in a hotel will be reimbursed by the organisers of the EFSA 2025 up to an amount not exceeding 500 Euro for one person if requested.
  3. Costs referred to in paragraph 2 must be agreed in advance with the organizers of the EFSA 2025 (i.e. European Fire Safety Alliance and/or FEU). All tickets and invoices need to be presented before reimbursing
  4. To qualify for reimbursement, costs must be pre-approved and supported by documented evidence, including tickets and invoices. All expenses must be submitted no later than three months after the event.

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