PSI 2021 will serve as the new stage for the sixth PSI Sustainability Awards, which will be organised with the special category “Innovator of the Year” for the first time now. All sustainably acting companies can apply until 1 October 2020.
Awards to move closer to the industry
The Award winners will be presented at a gala forming part of the trade show on 12 January 2021, the first day of the event. All award-winning submissions will also be on display on site on all three days of the trade show. “With this move we are responding to the wishes voiced by many participants to move the Awards closer to the industry,” says Michael Freter, Managing Director of the PSI.
New category: Sustainable innovation of the year
Newly established as a special category from 2021 will be the “Innovator of the Year”. This category is about a sustainable product and its story. “Consumers are to learn about the history of the product, its components and material composition. They are to find out about the manufacturing sites and the people manufacturing this article; and, of course, also about the carbon footprint of the product and the journey the product makes to its final destination,” explains Steven Baumgärtner, CEO of Cybergroup International and Global Director Sales as well as the sponsor of this category.
Centrestage here is the motivation behind the sustainability and the ecological and social responsibility that the partner companies assume for their production and production sites with all their employees. This means the new Special Award Category not only recognises the sustainable product as such but comprehensively pinpoints the sustainable context in which it is embedded.
Companies can apply for the “Innovator of the Year” category separately by e-mail.
All categories at a glance
The Awards will be presented in nine categories: Economic, Environmental and Social Excellence, Environmental and Social Initiative, Sustainable Product and Sustainable Campaign as well as Innovator of the Year. The company with the highest total score wins Category 9: “Sustainable Company of the Year”.
Until 1 October 2020 all international companies that act sustainably will have the chance to apply for the awards. All members of the Sustainable League, i.e. participants from past years, will be nominated automatically by the PSI. The entries submitted will be rated by a scoring system and an expert jury.
