Award and Competition Management
SiRA Awards
For award and competition organisers.
Business areas
Overview
What this product does
SiRA Awards manages award and competition programmes from end to end, including application collection, eligibility checks, jury assignments, multi-stage evaluations, scoring, ranking and the selection of finalists and winners.
Award programmes often depend on manual application handling, disconnected scoring sheets and difficult jury coordination.
SiRA Awards provides a structured and auditable workflow from application to final winner selection.
SiRA Awards owns award definitions, editions, linked events, stages, jurors, voting, rankings, finalists, winners and publication. Assessment mechanics are inherited from SiRA Assess.
Capabilities
What is included
- Award catalogue and reusable award definitions
- Award editions and cycles
- Many-to-many event attachment
- Assessment profiles inherited from SiRA Assess
- Award-specific category, FSI and ITS weights
- Additional award-specific questions
- Award stages and evaluation rounds
- Jury panels, assignments and conflict management
- Decisions, rankings and results
- Finalist and winner publication
Intended users
Who operates it
Operational problem
Award programmes often depend on manual application handling, disconnected scoring sheets and difficult jury coordination.
Outcome
SiRA Awards provides a structured and auditable workflow from application to final winner selection.
Workflow
How the product is used
- 01Create or reuse an award definition from the catalogue
- 02Open an award edition or cycle and attach one or more events
- 03Inherit an assessment profile from SiRA Assess and add award-specific weights or questions
- 04Configure stages, evaluation rounds, jury panels, assignments and conflicts
- 05Record decisions, rankings, finalists and winners
- 06Approve and publish the final results
Boundaries
Where this product's responsibility ends
SiRA Awards owns award definitions, editions, linked events, stages, jurors, voting, rankings, finalists, winners and publication. Assessment mechanics are inherited from SiRA Assess.
This product does not
- Owning reusable assessment questions, scoring models, FSI or ITS
- SiRA Badge must never be described as a recognition platform
- SiRA Badge must never be described as a digital credential
- SiRA Badge must never be described as an award product
- SiRA Badge must never be described as a certification product
- SiRA Badge must never be described as a winner-verification product
Use cases
Typical situations
- SiRA Awards is actively used to select the Top 100 companies, the Top 15 companies and the Top 4 companies for the 100 Innovations Shaping the Future Awards.
- SiRA Awards is also used in the evaluation processes of the Global Deep Tech Awards.
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A demo shows the product using realistic programme structures, including how it connects to the rest of the platform.