- Introduction
The Region 8 Volunteer Award is introduced with the goal of encouraging all volunteers in the Region and of recognizing those volunteers who have made an outstanding contribution to a particular Region 8 Section.
The Award is a Certificate. - Title
The scheme will be known as the IEEE Region 8 Volunteer Award. - Eligibility
The following are eligible as candidates for the Award:
(a) An IEEE member of any membership grade (Student, Graduate Student, Associate, Member, Senior Member, Fellow, Life Fellow).
(b) The candidate’s volunteer work is, or has been, on behalf of a Section. The candidate must have been active for at least 2 years in the Section and is not currently the Section Chairman.
(c) The candidate receives no remuneration for his work for the Section except possibly expenses.
(d) The members of the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee, the Past Region 8 Director or the Director-Elect and Region 8 Secretary are ineligible for the Award. - Conditions for nomination
(a) Nominations must be made on the Volunteer Award Nomination Form (available on http://www.ieee.org/r8 or directly from any member from the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee).
(b) The Nomination Form must be completed by a proposer who is familiar with the work of the candidate and who is a paid-up IEEE member.
(c) Nominations must be approved by the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the Section. The Chairman of the Section must sign the Nomination Form. Any member of the Section Execution Committee, including the Chairman, made be the proposer.
(d) Nominations must be received by the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee Chair no later than 31st December.
(e) A Section may put forward only one candidate per year. - Basis of adjudication
The points which adjudicators will take into consideration include the following:
(a) Length of service to the Section. (Note: it is not a condition that the candidate is working for the Section at the time he or she is nominated)
(b) Whether a candidate has introduced new ideas or new developments which have benefited the Section.
(c) Administrative ability.
(d) Support for the work of other people who are serving the Section.
(e) Furthering the work and promoting the objectives of the IEEE and Region 8 in general, and of the Section in particular, at Section, Chapter or Student Branch level, or in some other activity. - Adjudication
The adjudicators are the members of the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee (Chairman, Region 8 Director, Region 8 Secretary, 3 Section Chairs, representative of the Student Activities Committee).
The adjudicators’ decisions will be final.
Nomination will be assessed by awarding the candidate up to 10 points for points 2 (b), (c) and (d) of the Nomination Form, taking into account the basis of adjudication set out in paragraph 5. - Timetable
The annual timetable is:
Call for Nominations September
Nomination Deadline February 20th 2012
Result announced June[Note: This timetable will enable the Call for Nominations to be included with the agenda papers for the second Region 8 Committee meeting each year, and for the adjudicators to meet at the first Region 8 Committee meeting each year.]
January 1st, 2012
February 6th, 2012
Region 8 GOLD Committee has a new member. It is Khaled Mokhtar from Egypt Section. The R8 OpCom believes that Khaled will help Committee in organization and coordination of GOLD efforts in our Region. Congratulations and good luck!
January 31st, 2012
Download the Nomination Form for the R8 Outstanding Section Award
January 31st, 2012
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January 29th, 2012
A year of hard work is over and it is time to recall all the successes and failures of Region 8 GOLD in 2011!
Full article: Region 8 GOLD in 2011
January 29th, 2012
R8 GOLD members had pleasure to be in San Francisco and they have done a lot…besides jumping 
Full article: R8 GOLD in San Francisco
January 28th, 2012
This is a list of documents that will help you on managing your Affinity Group:
- GOLD Worldwide
- Benefits of IEEE Membership
- Membership Development Manual
- Member Benefits at a Glance
- STEP – Program Introduction & Resources
- SAMIEEE
- On-Demand Kit order form
Reporting Links:
Publishing your achievements and events:
Region 8 GOLD in Social Networks:
January 28th, 2012
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Salima Kaissi (Coordinator for R8) Skype |
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Nele Reynders Skype |
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Rafal Sliz Skype |
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Khaled Mokhtar Skype |
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Joao Figueiras (Past Coordinator) Skype |
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Website: www.ieeer8.org/goldCommittee Email Address: r8gold@ieee.org Facebook:
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January 28th, 2012
Do not hesitate to send us short summary of your event/pictures. We will publish it on the R8 GOLD website. It is important to increase the visibility among young professionals and happiness of well published work.
January 28th, 2012
We are pleased to honor you for the oustanding contribution for the GOLD Program in the Region 8 and for the rich activities you organized in Egypt.
Official letter
January 28th, 2012
Finland GOLD has won a 2011 IEEE GOLD Affinity Group Hall of Fame Award! The MGA judges were impressed by the record of activities and, despite fierce competition, selected GOLD Finland as one of three recipients in the inaugural year of this award.