The University of Malta has launched the 'Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award' (OAAA), to celebrate its graduates who have attained exceptional distinction in their chosen fields or professions or in public service and have used their education and their talents to reach out to and improve the lives of others. The chosen Awardee may be someone well known to the Maltese public but might equally be someone that most of us have never heard of but who, in his or her own way, has achieved something that makes the University proud to count him or her amongst its alumni.

Persons entitled to put forward nominations are all those who qualify as alumni of the University of Malta (see: www.um.edu.mt/alumni/alumnionline); all current members of the academic body and all other members of staff  of the University of Malta and all registered students of the University of Malta.

The nominee, in terms of this Award, must be someone who holds at least a Bachelor's degree or higher qualification from the University of Malta. Present academics, other members of staff and registered students of the University are not eligible for the Award.

The process is confidential and no disclosure can be made to the nominee or others until after the nomination process has been completed and the nominee has accepted the Award.

The successful nominee will be honoured at a reception given by the University of Malta and will have his or her name inscribed on a plaque which will hang in a prominent place at the University. A commemorative pin is also being especially designed and created in a limited edition to be presented to the successful nominee.

This initiative is part of the University's undertaking to recognise and value its Alumni. Each year, thousands of students graduate from the University of Malta. Many of these have become leaders in different spheres of life and have shaped the country as we now know it. In recent years the University has been actively increasing its contact with the Alumni community by introducing a number of projects such as a 'for life' University email address.  Past graduates now automatically become part of the Alumni Online Community and can access their own University records, receive an online newsletter, The Luminary, and can contact their course peers and anyone else linked to the database. Campus reunions, interest groups and 'chapters' for overseas students are actively encouraged and there is now an official LinkedIn University of Malta Alumni page (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/University-Malta-Alumni-127581) as well as an official UoM Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/universityofmalta).

All the documentation pertaining to the OAAA can be found and downloaded at: www.um.edu.mt/alumni/oaaa. Nominators are to submit their choice to: The OAAA Committee, c/o Eleanor Bezzina, Office of the Secretary, Room 223, Administration Building, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080 by noon of the 15 April 2015, in the format described at: www.um.edu.mt/alumni/oaaa

 

Any questions about the nominating process for the OAAA, may be addressed to: Patricia Camilleri, Director, Communications & Alumni Relations on [email protected] or (+356) 2340 3080