The application phase for the Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2023 has ended. The jury's decision will be announced digitally on November 15, 2023.
The application phase for the Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2023 has ended. The jury's decision will be announced digitally on November 15, 2023.
Terms and conditions for applications for the “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2023
1. Organizer, subject of the contest
Organizer of the awards contest is Deutsche Wellness GmbH, Columbusstraße 54,
40549 Düsseldorf in cooperation with Deutscher Wellness Verband e.V. The Deutsche Wellness GmbH defines a wellness & spa innovation as any novelty or further development related to the wellness & spa market. These can be products, devices, services, methods, measures, facilities, designs and concepts. A jury decides on the admission of an application for the awards contest as well as on the winners.
2. Categories
The Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2023 competition is organized in following categories:
Spa Products
Innovative products for use in services in companies in the wellness & spa industry
Spa Treatments & Services
Innovative applications and treatments by or for companies in the wellness & spa industry
Spa Tech & Equipment
Innovative equipment and furnishings for companies in the wellness & spa industry
Spa Business Concepts
Innovative operational and business concepts by or for companies in the wellness & spa industry
Spa Architecture & Design
Innovative spatial and architectural design of or for companies in the wellness & spa industry
Spa Ecology & Climate Action
Innovative products, concepts and measures for environmental and climate protection by or for companies in the wellness & spa industry
3. Application
In order to apply for the wellness & spa innovation awards 2023 a web form on www.wellness-innovation.eu has to be completed in full. The online form includes a questionnaire that must be completed in full as well. Each applicant may submit a maximum of three applications. The applicant has to describe his innovation with a maximum of 500 characters. He also has to upload an illustrative picture of the innovation in jpg format (landscape format, minimum size of 754 x 361 pixels), and a pdf file containing a detailed description of the innovation (this file is presented as a download offer on the website of the organizer).
If sending the web form is not possible due to technical problems the application can be sent via e-mail to bewerbung|wellnessinnovation.eu| |bewerbung|wellness-innovation.eu. The attached documents must not be bigger than 10 megabytes. By sending the documents to the organizer the applicant agrees to the right of the organizer to promote, document, and present the innovation and all related documents on the Internet. The applicant grants the organizer all correspondent rights of use.
Participants of the awards contest have to pay a fee. The fee is 495,00 EUR plus VAT per innovation. Members of the Deutscher Wellness Verband pay 395,00 EUR plus VAT. The participation fee is charged after the innovation is nominated for the awards contest.
4. Admission of applications, nomination
A jury decides on the admission of an application to the awards contest. Experts of the Deutscher Wellness Verband constitute the jury. An accepted application will only be nominated in the selected category if there is at least one other application accepted by the jury in that category. If an application for the awards contest is nominated the innovation will be published on www.wellness-innovation.eu what includes the presentation of the provided picture, brief summary, and pdf file with a detailed description of the innovation. Major editorial changes require written permission of the applicant.
The nominees receive the nomination logo for any marketing purposes.
All nominees should submit a 30 to 60 second video with sound in 16:9 format presenting their application with mention of the most important innovative features. The video must have HD quality. Text and language in the video must be German or English. The organizer as well as the German Wellness Association is granted the right to publish the video via the website www.wellness-innovation.eu, the social media channels of the German Wellness Association as well as in the context of the online award ceremony. The video must be made available to the organizer via a file sharing service (e.g. WeTransfer, Dropbox) by August 31, 2023.
5. Award winners
An award will only be given in the respective categories if there are at least two nominations in the category. To be eligible to win an award, the participant must have paid the nomination fee in full by Aug. 31, 2023.
All nominated innovations will be evaluated based on the submitted data and application documents. In addition, the nominees will be invited to a 30-minute pitch (online) to face questions from the jury. The pitch will be recorded for documentation purposes. Upon completion of the evaluation of all nominees, the jury will decide on the winners of the awards.
6. Awards winner presentation
The verdict will be announced on the 15th of October 2023 in digital form on the internet.
7. Liability exclusion
The applicant assures that he/she is the intellectual author of the submitted innovation and that there are no third party rights that conflict with the participation and use of the innovation in the "Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards" competition.
Deutsche Wellness GmbH assumes no liability that the submitted innovation is the intellectual property of the applicant. Otherwise, the applicant assumes full civil and penal liability for any claims that result from unlawful use of the innovation. The applicant himself is liable as a principal towards Deutsche Wellness GmbH that he is exclusively authorized to apply the innovation for the contest “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2023”. In advance, the applicant indemnifies Deutsche Wellness GmbH from and against any and all third party claims.
8. Postponement or cancellation of the award competition
The organizer reserves it’s right to cancel or to postpone the award competition in its sole discretion. There is no entitlement to the execution of the award competition. If the award competition is cancelled for a legal year the organizer has to repay the participation fee. Any further claims of the participant are excluded. If the competition is only postponed the organizer is not obliged to refund the participation fee.
9. Closing date for applications
Closing date for applications for the “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2023” is 15th of August 2023. Any recourse to courts is excluded. Pre-condition for application is that the applicant agrees to the abovementioned terms and conditions.
10. Data privacy protection
By submitting the application form and sending the documents, the applicant agrees to the application procedure and consents to the collection of his/her personal data by the organizer in the application procedure.
This data will be collected, processed and used by the organizer exclusively for the implementation of the competition. The participant has the possibility to revoke his consent at any time. Further participation in the current competition is then no longer possible.
11. Contact details
In case of any questions please contact:
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