Accademia

Settlement for the prize assignation

1. Introduction
The "Golden Trident" prize was created in Ustica in 1960 and it is unanimously considered as the "underwater activities Nobel". It is, in fact, the maximum excellence and gratification prize worldwide for particularly meritorious activities done in the underwater efficiency sectors.
In 1984 the prize promoters, gathering everyone that received the price, gave birth to the International Academy of Sciences and Underwater Techniques, with the main purpose to regulate the Golden Trident prize nominees and to award other recognitions to people, organizations and associations of great international prestige.
The following settlement is an up to date gathering of clarifications and procedural modalities to the prizes assignment to consider as integrative regulations for the New Social constitution of the International Academy of Sciences and Underwater Techniques.

2. Prizes
The "Golden Trident" prize is assigned, in these fields:
Underwater Scientific Activities.
Technical Activities, Hyperbaric and Underwater Technologies
Popular and Artistic Underwater Activities
Sportive and Explorative Diving Activities
It is usually foreseen only one Trident Prize per year in each field, the prize consists in a prestigious object with the trident symbol. The assignation also provides the "Academician of the International Academy of Sciences and Underwater Techniques" title.
"Special Prizes" and "Ustica Award", are given with a symbolic object, as a nameplate, a medal or similar things, to Institutions and Associations that acquired particular merits in underwater activities. All the prizes are accompanied with a personalized parchment with the prize motivation and the Academy symbol.

3. Prize Candidates Signalling
The names of the people for the "Golden Trident Prize", "Ustica Award" and "Special Prizes" are reported from the Active academics, each one for his competence field, and/or from qualified institutions officials from every country on behalf of their organizations or dependants that have done considerable things in the Underwater and Diving field. In particular:
From the university vice-chancellors and from the degree courses chairmen where the underwater activity is strictly connected with researches and studies.
From the "Presidenza di Ordini Professionali", category associations and Factories chairmen at a national or international level that works mainly on the underwater field of activities.
From the board of directors of the most important sportive national associations.
From the chairmen of the most known magazines and publishing houses in the underwater field.
From directors of prestigious museums with contents referred to the underwater activities.
Who wants to signal a name for one of the two prizes has to send to the Academy Secretary a small report, showing the candidates qualities or the associations merits, with a letter or with an e-mail. Everyone that does this has to write, at the bottom of the page his name, surname, eventually his professional title, his nationality, address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax in addition to those of the person signalled for the nomination to the "Golden Trident" prize and/or to the "Ustica Award". The text, in English or in Italian, must not exceed 500 words and must be contained in one page.
The report will then be read and analyzed from the Academy Board of Directors for a first valuation for the possible nomination. Then the Chairman entrusts the Academy General Secretary to tell the valuation effected to who signalled the candidate and, in case of a nomination, to the person signalled himself, inviting him to read and consider the settlement in the Academy website.

4. Nominations and participation modalities
The person that has received the communication of the nomination for the "Golden Trident" will have to make a dossier with the following documents:
A personal file, similar to those of the "Golden Trident" winners on the Academy Website, in Italian or in English, that includes his "curriculum vitae" and these information: name, surname, eventually his professional title, his nationality, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax, actual work or activity, work address.
An eventual second "curriculum vitae" more extended that the first one that shows his carrier, activities, publications and whatever he considers useful to the panel of judges that will designate the winners, in relation and in the purposes of the prize.
A recent photography 10x15 cm format with a passport photo frame.
A CD or a DVD containing the requested documents drawn up with an Office Word programme that can be read from a PC, the 2 photos in a JPEG format with a maximum of 800x600 pixels and 100 DPI
A releasing document upon the divulgation of the personal information sent from him like the following: "the subscriber, under and for the effects of the art.13 of the Dlgs 196 30/06/2003 (about personal information), states to have knowledge that the personal information acquired will be treated also with informative instruments exclusively in the process that this releasing document consents and that all rights are lied to.
The dossier must be sent in a 25x35 cm folder with a maximum thickness of 1 cm. The name has to be written on the folder. The posting must be done in the 15 days after the nomination to the Academy General Secretary.

5. The Panel of Judges
The Academy Board of Directors appoints a Panel of Judges composed of Academics with the task of selecting the candidates to the "Golden Trident" prizes. The Panel of Judges can be composed only of the academicians that have never presented a nomination. The Panel of Judges elects a president inside it, with a simple majority election, with the task to organize the meeting between the Judges, to liaise with the President of the Academy board of directors and the General Secretary. The Panel of Judges will be installed at least 3 months before the date chosen for the demonstration and will be dissolved after the prize-giving.
After the letters sent from the candidate will arrive to the Academy the General Secretary will overview the fulfil of all the foreseen formalities, then he will inform the President of the Academy and, once obtained his approval, he will deliver the dossiers to the President of the Panel of Judges; The president will distribute to all the Judges a copy of the dossiers giving them the task to examine carefully the proposal in order to their specializations.
The main elements considered from the Panel of Judges are:
The diving activity that must have been done personally from the candidate and not only occasionally for the purposes for which he was proposed, including eventual extraordinary results reached even without a personal or direct underwater activity.
The "curriculum vitae" of the candidate that has to certify an intense activity practised for the knowledge and the defence of the underwater environment.
The technique, scientific, creative, sportive importance and the innovative contribute given in the fields of underwater activities, that has to be of a high level and of high international prestige.
The activity of the candidate finalized to stimulate the new generation.
Their judgement is independent and final. The choice of the winners it is done by majority with a secret vote. In case of a draw the Panel will proceed with a second ballot with the president vote's value of one and a half. The Panel of Judges has the right to don't assign all or some of the prizes, if it considers that the candidates did not reach the excellence level required, and it also has the right to cancel the prize-giving event.
The Panel of Judges can exhort the candidature renew of certain candidates chosen for the nomination that have not won the prize; it can even recommend them for the "Ustica award" or for a "Special Prize" instead of the "Golden Trident". The Panel writes down the report of the vote session, draw up the motivations of all the selected candidates for the prizes and send them to the President of the Academy.

6. Acceptance of the "Golden Trident" prize
The winner will receive the message of the award by registered letter signed from the President of the Academy himself that will indicate the place and the date of the prize-giving event.
Within 15 days from the letter's deliver, the winner will have to send an e-mail and a registered letter to the Academy directed to the President, where he will accept the prize and the commitment of collecting it himself and will declare that he knows, accepts and shares the purposes and the rules of the Academy that he will become part of; he will also commit of being an active part of the Academy, working hard to increase its prestige contributing himself to the academic proposals, and of showing he belongs to the Academy in every public event and in the work's publication that will permit this.
In the 10 days after he will have to send to the President of the Academy a description of the activities he has done (1000-2000 words) in which he will highlight which are, for him, the expectations the his field will reserve in the future and which are the interventions to be hoped from the Institutions in that field of competence. This document will be the outline of the speech he is going to do at the prize-giving ceremony.

7. The "Ustica Award" and the "Special Prizes"
The "Ustica Award" and the "Special Prizes" are given from the Academy Board of Directors to worthy people or organizations. After having received the news of the award, within two weeks, they will have to send to the General Secretary a registered letter that has to contain:
A statement signed from the organization chairman or from the single person, in which he will write his appreciation for the prize and the name of the person that will collect it.
Name, surname, eventually his professional title, his nationality, address, e-mail, telephone number and fax of the awarded person and eventually of the one that will collect the prize.
A report with the description of the merits and the work done from the organization. If the prize is given to a single person, he will send a small "curriculum vitae" (500-1000 words). The text, in Italian or in English, must not exceed 500 words. Other documents, like a bibliography, are appreciated.
A releasing document about the divulgation of his personal information, like the following: "the subscriber, under and for the effects of the art.13 of the Dlgs 196 30/06/2003 (about personal information), states to have knowledge that the personal information acquired will be treated also with informative instruments exclusively in the process that this releasing document consents and that all rights are lied to.
All these things have to be sent also in an e-mail enclosed.

8. Prize-giving modalities
The "Golden Trident" and the "Academic" title are given, if possible, at the end of an interdisciplinary meeting. The winners of the golden trident, the academics and the representative of the organizations that won the "Ustica award" will take part at the meeting.
The ceremony can be done in public form, in occasion of an important event. Usually the outline is this: an elder member of the academy, during an official meeting, presents the winners of the prize to the Academy and illustrates their career and their merits; then the winners will expose the results of their work, which are their future projects and they will also answer any question from the public or the journalists.
The prize-giving event will be done in Ustica isle where the Major, with an appropriate ceremony, will award the winners with the honorary citizenship. In exceptional cases the Academy board of Directors could move the ceremony in another place, changing its schedule, the prize-giving modalities and their consistence, still maintaining the traditional shape of the prizes.

9. Titles
The Board of Directors could decide to give the "Honorary Academician" title to which have done better in the different field of academic interest and the "Honorary Member" for special merits.
Who will receive these titles will also be awarded with a parchment where there will be written the motivations of the award and with the academy's badge. The attribution of the "Honorary President" title, given with a parchment, is given to those academics who were prestigious Academy's Presidents in the past.
The Board of Directors could establish a "Special Title" to worthy personages that had already received other titles from the Academy. The Ceremony for the title-giving occurs, usually, during the "Golden Trident" prize-giving or during a general assembly of the academy members.


10. Prize-giving Event Organization
The Academy Board of Directors can appoint an Organizing Committee with the following tasks:
Reconciling with the General Secretary of the Academy, the Authorities and the Supporter Organization for the organization and the realization of the prize-giving ceremony, the invitations printing and the guests list.
Making an expenses budget that will have to be submitted to the Academy Board of Directors.
Organizing the prize-giving event that have to be solemn and advertised, with invitations to many important people, well known in the scientific, technical, popular, sportive or journalistic fields.

11. Personal information treatment
Under article 10, paragraph 1, of the law n° 675 of 31/12/96 and successive modifications or integrations, the personal information given from the prize candidates are conserved in the information/paper archive of the Academy and will be utilized and treated only for the following settlement purposes, for the Academy's statute and for adjournments of the initiatives that could be promoted from the association. The candidates will be able to ask the correction or erasure of his information writing to the academy's secretary's office.
12. Other Information
The "Golden Trident" prize must be withdrawn personally from the winner during the prize-giving ceremony. If the winner could not be able to be present, for assured impossibility, the prize could be given to the winner in the following prize-giving event or, only in an exceptional situation; it could be given to a delegate.
He document sent to the Academy cannot be returned. The academy has the right to publish or divulgate in every way, completely, only in a small part and without reward, the documents sent from the winners and their name through the internet, the journals or other mass media. The authors, accepting the following settlement, renounce to any reward for the publication of the documents sent upon the associations' websites and in the eventual publication done from the association itself. The rights upon the documents still property of the single author that is free to use them for other purposes.
The Academy Board of Directors may change the following settlement with final judgement.
Every communication about the prizes must be sent or with an e-mail (that must not exceed 3 Mb) addressed to accasub@libero.it, or with a registered letter, to the following address:
ACCADEMIA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE E TECNICHE SUBACQUEE - Palazzo del C.O.N.I. - Viale Tiziano n. 74 - 00196 ROMA - (ITALIA)