diwan awards
Diwan Awards Holland, a great celebration of talents dedicated to the future of our children! For its seventh edition, the Diwan Awards Holland ceremony will worthily salute 15 exemplary talents among 36 nominees, from diverse backgrounds.
At the pace of a flawless organization, and in front of an increasingly large, diverse and enthusiastic audience, 15 trophies will be awarded to representatives of the different selection categories, from engineering to culture and sport, including education, justice, architecture, managers, active women, etc.
regulation
The Diwan Awards highlight skills, remarkable careers or actions as well as good practices within the Dutch-Moroccan community.
The objective is clearly to bring added value in terms of perception of its whole as well as that of its members among other components of society.
Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
- Architecture : Rewards a person who has distinguished themselves during the year in their field of expertise.
- Woman : Rewards a woman who has distinguished herself during the year through her actions and commitment.
- Sport : Rewards an athlete who has distinguished himself or herself during the year in his or her discipline.
- Associations : Rewards an association – or a group – which has distinguished itself during the year through its action or its project.
- Straters & Enterprise : Rewards a Starter or a company – which has distinguished itself during the year by its project, its potential, its success.
- Medicine & Health : Rewards a doctor or health professional distinguished during the year.
- Engineers & IT : Rewards an engineer, technician, engineering and IT professional distinguished during the year.
- Art & Culture : Rewards an individual or collective artistic performance — work, show, music — distinguished during the year.
- Teaching : Rewards a distinguished teacher-researcher during the year.
- Lawyer : Recognizes a lawyer or legal professional who has distinguished himself or herself during the year.
- Manager : Rewards a manager or executive who has distinguished himself or herself during the year.
- Jury Prize : Rewards a personality or structure which has contributed through its actions to the influence of the Dutch-Moroccan community.
The jury only designates the jury prize. It receives proposals from the public who voted via the site. It will make its choice among the first 3 results.
Participation is free, free of charge and open to all. Candidates must be active in Belgium and their action must have a close link with the Belgian-Moroccan community.
Phase 1: Free voting
Nominees and their supporters are invited to complete the online voting form at https://diwanawardsholland.nl .
Only one vote per person is allowed – based on the voters’ address (IP, email, and/or postal address).
The final result of the election for the public awards is determined by:
- a. online voting at https://diwanawardsholland.nl
- b. Email Votes (Survey Monkey)
- c. Voting by application on social media (Facebook Survey, Linkedin Survey)
- d. The “Field” vote – on the ground
- e. The panel: 100 personalities and opinion leaders
After the public vote, the nominees will be known. These are the first 3 in each category.
Each of these nominees is contacted by the organization with a view to requesting their express authorization for the list of finalists as well as their participation in the filming of a presentation video as well as in the awards ceremony.
Our teams are deploying all existing means to reach the 36 nominees in the shortest possible time.
In the event of refusal or failure to be contacted or to respond to our requests within 8 days, the nominee is replaced by the person following them in terms of the number of votes.
The nominees will be invited to the official presentation ceremony.
Participation in the competition and in the ceremony for the public are subject to tacit acceptance of the rules available on the website https://diwanawardsholland.nl
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND PLACEMENT OF PRODUCTS OUTSIDE OF CONVENTION
In order to maintain a balanced budget, spaces are rented to institutional or commercial partners as part of conventions. Any activity resulting in visibility, promotion or product placement – such as the placement of a roll-up, business cards, flyers, samples, physical products or via digital means, in the spaces reserved for the event (car parks, corridors, stands and/or event room), whether direct or indirect, which has not been the subject of a written agreement with the organizers, will de facto and automatically result in the invoicing of a Premium sponsorship pack (Cat.2), to said brand, sign and/or its beneficiary.
The names of the winners and the Special Jury Prize will be announced at the awards ceremony in Brussels.
The winners will be invited to the ceremony and asked to confirm their attendance.
No information will be released by the jury about the results of the elections before the official announcement of the winners during the Awards evening.
By submitting an application, the participant accepts the Diwan Awards regulations available at https://diwanawardsholland.nl The nomination concerns a person or structure that represents the application throughout the competition procedure.
If the candidate is among the finalists, he accepts:
- To attend the awards ceremony.
- To participate in the presentation video report.
- Winners of a previous edition of the Diwan Awards cannot be candidates in the following edition.
Finalists may re-apply for a future election.
The rules of the competition, the conduct of the election and the deliberations of the jury do not give rise to any external justification.
Any questions regarding the Diwan Awards should be addressed by email to info@diwanawardsholland.nl/
The organization of the Diwan Awards is provided by the non-profit organization Amber.
Diwan Awards and its corporate purpose are protected by copyright in several countries that are signatories to the copyright convention. – DEP63482313294459603 – All rights reserved.
diwan awards
Beyond a ceremony that has proven its legitimacy and effectiveness, and which at each edition brings an intensity of knowledge, exchanges, emotion, the Diwan Awards Holland are increasingly positioning themselves as an exemplary social enterprise dedicated to taking into account all the talents that make up a human society, in line with the multicultural challenges of its time.
More than 21,400 voters this year expressed, through their votes for the exemplary representatives of each category, their aspiration to count in this society turned towards hope and the future. Among them, there are 68% women and 34% "Belgo-Belgians" (an increase of 13% compared to 2017). The list of winners has also become largely feminized this year, with nearly 50% of winners being women.
Another revealing indicator of the votes is the more active participation of professional groups, federations, but also networks of colleagues to salute the quality and promote their profession or their commitment, and a person they consider remarkable in their activity. Finally, from year to year, the Diwan Awards also reflect the rich diversity of Belgian-Moroccans, who also represent the diversity of the three regions of the country, Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.
In six years, the event has become a benchmark event in terms of promoting an audience that is still too often the victim of prejudices and obstacles to its recognition. It proves that in its reality, the Belgian-Moroccan community produces many quality women and men, who are levers in terms of building the country where they were born, responsible citizenship, and influence among younger generations.
They shine in large companies, in cutting-edge medicine, in societal investment, in legal expertise, in sport (two world champions this year and an organization promoting sport for peace, which received the support of His Majesty the King), in dance, literature or entertainment...
They are bearers of economic projects or concrete actors in society. They are doubtless ordinary women and men but who, through hard work and faith in the future, achieve extraordinary things for Belgian society. In this respect, the success of the invitation extended to young people from different schools in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels shows to what extent young people (4th or even 5th generation from Moroccan immigration) aspire to find and meet examples, role models who help them to integrate into working life, to make their professional project and their commitment flourish. 250 of them, aged 15 to 18, were present in the room, invited in the same way as the 900 people present that evening. And they represent the ferment of a new project that aims to activate relations between the nominees for the Diwan Awards for six years (there are 201 of them to have been selected by the public, in six years) and the new generation, in the form of benevolent coaching, sponsorships, construction of a network useful for their future.
The success of the Diwan Awards is due to this new realization of its objective, to make too many invisible talents visible, and to promote the action and involvement of diversity in national society. This influence is also realized by a positive export of this valorization in our neighboring countries. Today, the Diwan Awards are also organized in Germany, France and the Netherlands, and respond locally to identical issues of recognition of a population that acts and rises to the civic challenges of its country.
For all those who attend, and especially this year, the Diwan Awards ceremony is an exceptional and emotional moment. The event allows everyone to measure the progress made since the arrival of the first "immigrant" workers in Belgium, and to pay tribute to the parents and grandparents who wanted a better future and especially the integration of their children, through hard work, studies, and affection for the country where they were born and grew up. Multiple in the talents it celebrates, intergenerational and a reflection of today's Belgium through the message it carries and the public it reaches, international through the influence of its model, exemplary on a societal level through all the institutions, companies and media that support it, the Diwan Awards event does a little more with each edition, advancing our society through the recognition, legitimization and motivation of one of its populations most actively involved in its progress.
