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2022-07-05  |  

Beijing Science Fiction International Award is open for registration.

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Period: 

July - September, 2022

Focusing on the science fiction industry, the event has set up three award categories, namely, Best Science Fiction Creation Award, Best Science Fiction Experience Award, and Best Science Fiction Creative Product Award. Teams or individuals from the science fiction industry across the world are welcomed to participate. There will be one winner from each category with the prize of CNY 1 million. 

Schedule:

1. Submission: July 1 - July 31 

Registration is open to the public.

2. Qualification review: August 1 - August 10 

The participating projects will undergo the qualification review and then will be submitted to the review committee for evaluation.

3. Award review: August 10 - September 10 

The review includes the preliminary round online, the semi-final online, and the final on-site.

4. Results' release: September

The winners will be announced at the opening ceremony of the China Science Fiction Conference 2022.

5. Award ceremony: September

The award ceremony will be held during the China Science Fiction Conference 2022.

Competition System:

Voluntary registration

Preliminary round online: Fifteen projects from each of the three categories (45 projects in total) will be selected for the semi-final.

Semi-final online: Four projects from each of the three categories (12 projects in total) will enter the final. The other 33 projects will receive the Best Finalist Award.

Final on-site: There will be one winner from each of the three categories and the other nine projects will receive the Most Promising Award.

Rules of review: 

The review committee includes technical experts, industry insiders, and industrial investors. The review is based on the principles of openness, fairness, impartiality and selecting the best through competition, and will focus on four dimensions, namely, innovation, applicability, demonstration and project teams.

Awards: 

There will be one winner in each of the three categories, who will receive a prize of CNY 1 million.

There will be nine awards for the most promising projects, which can also be given medals and service support.

Policy supports include: financial supports, exclusive services for talent, matchmaking services concerning the scene-related needs, investment and financing, settlement services provided by ZGC Science Fiction Industry Innovation Center, expert services, etc.

Eligible participants and registration conditions:

1. Each submitted project shall be real and legitimate and meet the laws, regulations and national industrial policies of China; It is also required to abide by public orders and morality; The participant shall have good credibility with no record of misbehavior, and shall not infringe intellectual property rights of any third party, plagiarize or use illegitimately works of others, provide fraudulent materials or commit other kinds of violations of the laws and regulations; Violations of the aforementioned rules will, if detected, result in the cancellation of the participant's rights relevant to the participation, and the legal liability to be entirely borne by the participant;

2. Eligible participants include enterprises, scientific and research institutions of universities and colleges, and other scientific and research institutions and project teams; Each participant shall comprise (a) leading initiator(s) or (a) leader(s), a technical team, person(s) in charge, etc.

3. Each submitted project shall demonstrate strong innovation capabilities and high growth potential in terms of the building of the scenes related to futuristic science fiction, experience, etc., with clarified patent rights and copyrights of the products, technologies and other things involved in the project.

4. Each submitted project shall demonstrate competitive industrial promotional values in terms of scientific technology innovation, scientific technology culture, enhancement popularization of science, etc.

5. Each participant can only submit one project, with the submissions of similar or same projects prohibited after the initial submission is made; Once the registration is done, the participant shall not make alterations to the submitted project; The products and applications involved in the project must be operable, with a certain degree of technical supports.

6. The participants qualified for the final shall strictly comply with requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control in China, and implement measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic.

7. All materials submitted by the participants for the corresponding projects including those submitted by overseas participants shall have Chinese versions.

Contact:

Contact Persons: Liang, Xu and Bu

Tel: 13161206120, 18611706948, 18613812296

E-mail: csfc2022award@163.com

(Source: The Official WeChat Account of Shijingshan District, Beijing)