OPEN Spotlight Award 2023

We launched the OPEN Spotlight Award to shine the spotlight on organizations that have gone through an inspiring journey in which they worked for diversity and inclusion. Our aim is to cultivate an international community of business and experts promoting openness, who inspire each other by sharing stories and knowledge and lead by example to start positive changes on a large scale.

We know from experience that launching and fostering a successful diversity & inclusion initiative at your workplace takes time. This is why we have decided to organize the OPEN Spotlight Award every 2 years to give organizations the sufficient time they need to develop and examine the efforts they are making toward a more inclusive workplace. We are looking for inspiring case studies for the OPEN Spotlight Award 2023! Keep working on your diversity & inclusion goals, and share your story with us next year!

We are looking for case studies that demonstrate the challenges and impact of building a more open, diverse and inclusive work environment.

The OPEN Spotlight Award is for organizations that have gone through an inspiring journey in which they worked for diversity and inclusion. It features companies who are willing to talk about these challenges, and how they have mastered them to become a source of inspiration for others.

Businesses, small and large alike, and experts from a wide variety of backgrounds (creative industry, architecture, communications, etc.) may share their stories.
We accept nominations from Europe. The awards may or may not be divided based on geographic regions.
 

The nominated stories shall come from the past two years or from 2023 (2021-2023).

• Leading by example: The collection of the shortlisted nominations will be published as an e-book distributed by WeAreOpen to inspire many other organizations out there.

• Speaking opportunity: Shortlisted organizations will get an invitation to speak at the OPEN Conference.
• Receiving the OPEN Spotlight Award: The winners will be announced and will get their Award on the first day of OPEN Conference.
• Belonging to the OPEN Community: To be able to build their belonging to the community of openness-promoting organizations, for the shortlisted works, we offer two free and additional discounted tickets (35% discount from the Regular Ticket price) for OPEN Conference. 

• Nominations close: 1 July 2023 (23:59 CET)
• Shortlist announced: 31 July 2023
• Judging sessions start: 31 July 2023
• Awards ceremony at OPEN Conference: October, 2023

The timeline may be subject to change.

There is no nomination fee.