Paragraph 1: The Dutch Aerospace Awards

The board of the Dutch Aerospace Fund (NLF) annually awards the following prizes with associated prize money to students of MBO, HBO and university courses:

• Parmentier Prize: for students of an Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) study, certificate and/or sum of money to be determined per edition

• Smart Mobility Prize: certificate and/or sum of money to be determined per edition

• Sustainable Aviation Prize: made available by KLM, €2,500

• Anthony Fokker Prize: made available by Fokker, €2,500

• Noordwijk Aerospace Prize: made available by the municipality of Noordwijk, €2,500

• André Kuipers Aerospace Prize: made available by the André Kuipers Foundation, €2,500

The prizes are awarded if there are enough suitable entries in a year. This is decided by the jury and the board.

Paragraph 2: Submission deadlines

The NLF announces the awards approximately one year in advance. The award ceremony takes place in the autumn (October/November). Pupils and students can send their entries to the NLF until 31 August to enter a competition for that year. In September each year, the jury decides which entrants are selected for a presentation training and final assessment by the jury. At the end of this day, the board announces the nominations.

During the NLF Award Ceremony, the nominees receive a 'Nomination Certificate'. At the end of the evening, the NLF announces the winners. They will then receive their awards, with a cheque for the matching prize money.

The exact dates of the judging and award ceremony will be decided each year.

Paragraph 3: Requirements for entries

With the awards, the NLF aims to encourage students to distinguish themselves in the field of aviation and/or aerospace. From this point of view, the NLF sets the following requirements:

1. an entry provides an improvement or expansion for the aviation and/or aerospace sector in the broadest sense of the word, is in line with this theme, and

2. is unique to aviation and/or aerospace or has a clear link to aviation/aerospace knowledge, and

3. the participant is a student in senior secondary vocational education (MBO), higher vocational education (HBO) or university (BSc/MSc/PhD) or has just graduated and has done this work as a student. 

4. Prizes reward work that has already been done, i.e. not a proposal or plan. Students can enter individually or as a group. Their work must have been done for their studies or be closely related to it.

5. A submission can be, for example, a dissertation, graduation assignment, (internship) report, short description of work, letter of explanation or a video. Participants themselves choose which form of submission best suits their work. These rules provide further guidance on the method of submission.

Paragraph 4: Types of work suitable for submission

Submissions may consist of the different types of work by type of education.

For academic education:

• a dissertation for obtaining the degree of doctorate

• a graduation assignment of the master's phase

• an undergraduate final project

• a special internship

• a special project closely linked to study
   

For higher vocational education (HBO):

• a special project during the last two years of the programme

• a graduation assignment of the bachelor phase

• a special internship

• a special project closely linked to the study programme

For secondary vocational education (MBO):

• a special project during the last two years of the study programme

• a special internship

• a special project closely related to the studies

​Paragraph 5: Method of participation

Competing for one of the NLF prizes is done through the following steps:

1. a student informs his/her contact person within the programme (e.g. the mentor, project supervisor or a teacher) that he/she wishes to submit work for the Dutch Aerospace Awards.
   b. This contact person encourages the student to participate.

2. The student fills in the application form on the NLF website and gives it, with its attachments, to the institution's contact person (submission).

3. The institution's contact person collects all submissions from his/her institution and assesses whether they meet the institution's quality requirements for that type of work. He or she submits the entries that meet the requirements to the NLF (nomination).

4. An independent NLF jury collects and evaluates all entries and establishes a list of nominees (nomination). These are the best three to a maximum of five nominations per category that are most likely to win the award. The jury may seek advice from experts in this process. Jury members who are directly involved with one or more educational institutions that have submitted a nomination may not judge the relevant entries.

5. The jury announces the nominees and may ask participants for additional information and documentation.

6. The jury evaluates the nominations and proposes the winner for each category. The criteria on which the jury assesses an entry can be found in the Jury regulations.

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