Muscat, July 19 (ONA) - The National Youth Commission (NYC) opened applications for the Youth Excellence Award 2020 for individuals, youth initiatives or youth organizations. NYC aims at encouraging positive competition among Omani youth, youth initiatives and youth institutions. NYC is keen to spot creative youth and honour them by participating in Omani Youth Day, which falls on 26 October each year, provided that the conditions for participation are according to the specific category.
This award comes to encourage Omani youth to be creative and innovative in various fields, provide care to innovations, and utilize the talents of the largest number of talented, creative young people in various fields.
Dr. Sami bin Salem Al Kharousi, Chairman of the National Youth Committee, said that the award includes in its first edition 9 different fields. The branches of these fields are determined annually according to statistics and interests of Omani youth. It represents an incentive to work on creativity, and to create a cultural environment to enrich society, especially as it is devoted to the most important segment of society, which is youth, by providing means of material and moral support in the form of an annual award, in order to stimulate the role of entrepreneurial youth in society, which contributes to developing the creative capabilities and potential of youth, while at the same time achieving leadership of the Sultanate at the regional and international levels.
For his part, Nasr Al Yahyai, a member of the National Youth Committee and head of the Omani Youth Day 2020 project, said that the Youth Excellence Award is an annual award given by the National Youth Committee in honour of the distinguished Omani youth on the Omani Youth Day every year.
Al Yahyai added that the objectives of this award come to spread the spirit of competition between Omani youth and encourage them to develop their skills in order to build an informed, responsible, creative and proactive generation in addition to appreciating and celebrating the contributions of Omani youth to sustainable development and strengthening the national side of Omani youth and a sense of community belonging.
The Youth Excellence Award targets three categories within the Sultanate, namely: loyal Oman youth and youth initiatives in the Sultanate and youth institutions. The award includes several fields, represented in entrepreneurship, education, media, culture, science, sports, heritage, environment and work. There are specific criteria for application in each field.
An evaluation committee was formed from outside the National Youth Committee to assess all fields, each according to its specialization and scope, in order to evaluate the participating projects.
The evaluation of the award passes through three stages. The first stage is represented in the advertising criteria (general conditions), where evaluation and screening are carried out by the National Youth Committee according to the criteria set for the award and announced in the registration form. As for the second stage, it consists in evaluating the participants according to the criteria of each field and each category through (the external evaluation committee) according to special requirements and the third stage in the criteria of the interview and the final presentation, which is also evaluated by the external evaluation committee.
In the event that there is more than one qualifier in a specific category (equal points) and for transparency and fairness among the candidates, the qualifier is evaluated through a visual presentation about the project / initiative, and there are several criteria for this procedure.
(ONA)