Categories

Entries for the 2009 Profile Awards programme will be accepted from 1 January 2009 and the closing date is 31 January 2010.

Making it easier for entrants to categorise their work as well as broadening the potential scope of entries, the Award categories in the subjects of science and technology have been changed. For 2009, entries can be submitted in the following five categories:

Industry

The Industry Sector and its products and solutions address industry customers in the fields of production, transportation and building systems. The Sector is primarily comprised of the activities of the previous business units of Automation and Drives, Industrial Solutions and Services, Transportation Systems and Building Technologies.

Energy

The Energy Sector primarily addresses energy providers, but also industrial companies particularly in the oil and gas industry. The Sector offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, which includes solutions for the power plant environment, down to value-added services.

Health Care

The Healthcare Sector stands for innovative products and complete solutions as well as service and consulting across the entire value chain, from medical imaging and laboratory diagnostics to clinical IT.

Information Technology (Business process & Outsourcing)

Information technology has developed from a specialist topic to become the backbone of virtually all business processes. What increasingly matters is the ability to optimally interlink all the diverse IT components in an enterprise - from the device level to production planning right through to the overarching control systems.

Student

At present, science and technology is given very little coverage in the SA press, and Siemens is concerned to lift the general social level of awareness of the importance of S&T. If S&T issues increasingly affect everyday life, then it is important that members of society are made aware of developments in S&T. Greater awareness results in greater participation in the macro-S&T decisions facing SA. One of the crucial steps in the process of 'consciousness-raising' with regard to S&T is the creation of effective and sustained journalism at University level.