Tan Sri Omar
Harmony Award 2023

National Level

Organised by:

In today’s interconnected and diverse global community, our differences and societal pressure sometimes lead us to pain, conflict, and violence. Education is one of the best means for laying the foundation for inculcating positive worldview and character values, and for catalyzing critical thinking, and innovative actions in resolving these problems. We believe all aspects of life thrive in a peaceful environment.

Against this backdrop, this Harmony Award promotes education that transforms life and catalyzes societal empowerment for youths to rise up as social change agents for a harmonious and flourishing society.  This award also provides an avenue for tertiary institution students in Malaysia to showcase their ideas and aspirations for fostering unity in diversity in our community.

Form your teams, come up with your proposals to effect the change you seek. We welcome project proposals that address any of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that lead to building peace, just and inclusive society that is free from fear and violence.  

TEAM REQUIREMENTS

  • The Harmony Award is open to all current local and international students in universities, polytechnics and colleges in Malaysia.
  • The team size is capped at maximum 5 people.
  • Each participant can only commit to one team. Multiple entries are not allowed.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

The Proposal must specify the problem that can be directly or indirectly related to building a harmonious community and propose solutions to this problem, as well as integrating strategies for sustainability of the project and greater societal impact. It must also include actions that can promote Socio-Culture-Spiritual development in Malaysia’s diverse ethnic, religious, and nationality community and positive character values fundamental to building a harmonious society such as active engagement, respect, trust, transparency, empathy and compassion. 

The proposed project must entail followings:

  1. New ideas that are at conceptual or pilot phase or ongoing operations.
  2. Application of S.M.A.R.T goals (S - Specific; M - Measurable; A - Achievable; R - Relevant; Time bound)
  3. The proposal has not won any awards or prizes before and must have originated from the participants, i.e. no plagiarism.

DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS

  1. A cover page consisting of the project title, name of the team representative and the team member details: names, contact numbers, learning institutions, and email addresses, and the Month/Year each of them is expected to graduate.
  2. A table of contents.
  3. Project background (1 page) 10%:
    • a paragraph of the problem statement
    • a brief information on the project status - state if this is a newly proposed project or an on-going project
    • state which SDG(s) the project is addressing, and explain how they lead to SDG 16
    • briefly elaborate how the project addresses the problem stated
    • state project beneficiaries and partners
  4. Proposed solutions (maximum 3 pages write-up with maximum 5 pictures):
    • S - specifically elaborate how the solutions address the problem stated
    • M - discuss how the project outcomes for the relevant SDGs are measured
    • A - list attainable resources for project implementation and strategies to sustain the project
    • R - elaborate the relevance of the expected project outcomes in fostering harmony
    • T - use Gantt Chart for 1 year project plan
  5. Proposals must be submitted in pdf form.
  6. The submission could either be in Bahasa Malaysia or English.
  7. Use Arial/ Helvetica/ Verdana fonts and size 11.
  8. Non-compliance to the guideline above will result in disqualification.

JUDGING CRITERIA

  1. Clarity in specifying the harmonious issue on the ground
  2. Strategic, achievable and impactful solutions
  3. Promotion of positive Socio-Culture-Spiritual values
  4. Advocation of SDG implementation
  5. Inclusive and diverse team is a bonus

SUBMISSION

FIRST ROUND SUBMISSION

1. The application must be submitted via the Google Form CLICK HERE

  • Any enquiry on the award can be emailed to [email protected]
  • Closing date to receive the first round submission and other details is 15 November 2023.
  • Announcement of the shortlisted proposal will be made via email by 15 December 2023.


SECOND ROUND SUBMISSION

1. The shortlisted teams are required to submit their proposals in videos as below:

  • The video must include the name of the project, name of project members, the name of their high learning institutions, and the audio must be clear.
  • The duration of the video should be 2-3 minutes (any video that is longer than 3 minutes will be disqualified).
  • The video will be judged based on its content (refer to the video content guidelines)
  • The video can be uploaded at the registration Google Form. The file name should be the in this format: TSO Harmony Award 2023.

2. Submission of the video should be made by 15 January 2024.


FINAL ROUND (LIVE)

1. Three teams with the highest score will go through a live/physical pitching exercise that will be evaluated by a panel of judges (80%) and voted by the public (20%):

  • Presentation should be no longer than 5 minutes (live or recorded).
  • All team members should take part in the presentation or in answering questions.
  • The Q and A time will be around 5 minutes.

2. Date of the presentation will be during the World Interfaith Harmony Week 2024 Celebration, in February.

3. Announcement of the recipients of the first, second and third place will be done on the same day.

PRIZES

First Prize

RM 3,000 (Cash)
+
*Bursary

Second Prize

RM 2,000 (Cash)
+
*Bursary

Third Prize

RM 1,500 (Cash)
+
*Bursary

Consolation Prizes

5 X RM 300 (Cash)
+
*Bursary

Additional:

  • E-Certificates for all participants
  • Congratulatory E-Certificates for the Best 3 Teams
  • Special gifts for the Best 10 Teams

*Note:
For current UCSI Students, the Bursary will be replaced with ELE/ECA Points.

BURSARY

Bursary (Non UCSI students) for each Team member ELE/ECA Points (UCSI students) for each Team member
First Prize 100% Tuition Fee Waiver (Up to RM20,000) 80
Second Prize RM10,000 Fee Waiver 64
Third Prize RM8,000 Fee Waiver 48
Consolation Prizes X 5 RM2,000 Fee Waiver 32
Participation Nil 16

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  1. While all winners are entitled to the cash prizes, the Bursaries are only awarded to UCSI future students.
  2. The bursary awarded is applicable for all academic programmes at UCSI University or UCSI College.
  3. The bursary awarded is in the form of a tuition fee waiver for programme and duration offered at UCSI and is neither transferable to another candidate nor exchangeable for cash.
  4. The bursary amount will be disbursed equally over the first 3 semesters of the study; recipients are responsible for the outstanding fee amount.
  5. The bursary awarded is for the 2024 intakes only.
  6. Recipients must be later enrolled as full-time registered student at UCSI University meeting the minimum entry requirement for the institution.
  7. Recipients are to maintain an academic record of having minimum CGPA of 3.00 for every semester throughout the length of the bursary. Failing to do so may result in suspension or discontinuation of the bursary.
  8. Recipients are to voluntarily contribute effort and time by participating various workplace and community projects by the institution and UCSI University Trust.
  9. Tuition fee waivers are not cumulative. If the recipients qualify for other UCSI Scholarship, Grant, Assistantship or Sibling’s scheme, recipients will be entitled to either one that they are eligible for.

CONTACT US

UCSI Group Sustainability Office
Level 11, Block G,
UCSI University KL Campus

🌐https://apps.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/harmony/
Mr Leong Sat Sing
[email protected]
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