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Foundation

Awards

GSTLW Global Excellence Awards

A single awards night recognising institutions and individuals whose work measurably advanced skills, talent, leadership and workforce outcomes. One awards brand for the entire ecosystem — there is no second.

Categories

Skills and Talent Diplomacy

For a recognition, mobility or cooperation agreement delivered in practice.

Employer of the Year

For hiring and workforce commitments met and verified.

University–Industry Partnership

For curriculum-to-market work with evidenced placement outcomes.

Public Institution Delivery

For measurable project maturity gains under NPMTI or equivalent.

Women's Economic Power

For procurement, capital access or progression results.

Youth Opportunity

For applied opportunity creation at scale.

Research & Evidence

For a contribution that changed a policy or a negotiation.

Regional Leadership

For institutional leadership within an APLIS region.

Standard

How winners are chosen

Awards are evidence-based. Nominations must cite a registered compact, a published result or independently verifiable data. Sponsorship of the Awards confers no influence over judging, and sponsors are excluded from categories they fund.

Open nominations, including self-nomination by institutions.
Screening against the evidence requirement by the Secretariat.
Independent judging panel drawn from the Advisory Council and partner institutions.
Conflict-of-interest declarations published with the panel.

Calendar

Nominations

Nominations open with the Global Week dates announcement.
Screening and panel review through the quarter before the Week.
Shortlist published ahead of the Week.
Awards presented on the closing day, following the Allocation Ceremony.

Awards notifications

Be notified when nominations open, and receive the evidence requirements and category guidance.

Global Week programme Awards sponsorship

Four-entity mandate model

Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA)
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA) is the U.S.-incorporated, IRS-recognised Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation providing governance, philanthropy and public-benefit oversight for the ecosystem.

GSTLW
Global convening, partnerships, policy, research and publisher of record; institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy.

APLIS Africa Foundation (NGO)
Continental institutional implementation partner: continental programme ownership, public-sector transformation and regional coordination of APLIS Forums.

NPMTI — National Project Maturity & Transformation Initiative
Country-level execution framework (maturity methodology, government engagement model, assessment and reporting mechanism). Never a separate brand, entity or event.

Fund governance: the Global Skills Endowment Fund is governed under PUFF-USA (public benefit). The Global Skills Enterprise Fund is governed through PCA Group or an appropriately authorised investment vehicle — never through the Secretariat. Accelera 1000 is a platform brand only; contracts issue through approved legal entities. Commercial services are delivered separately through approved ecosystem partners (Paraklete Institute / PCA Group). All references to UN and multilateral participation are aspirational and subject to those institutions' own priorities and approval processes.

GSTLW is the institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy. GSLI supplies the evidence, the GSEF Twin Funds align capital, the Global Week creates the compacts, APLIS coordinates regional implementation, and NPMTI translates cooperation into national project maturity and transformation.