Ingegneria senza Frontiere Firenze

ONLUS
in collaboration with
Assessorato allAmbiente del Comune di
Firenze

TATTARILLO AWARD 2011

5th Edition

International Award on

Appropriate Technologies for sustainable development

in any South of the World

RULES and REGULATION

Art. 1 Competition Topic
The International Thesis Award Premio Tattarillo (in the following Tattarillo award) for Bachelor,
MS and PhD theses is organised by Ingegneria Senza Frontiere Firenze ONLUS (Engineering
without Borders Florence, in the following ISF) in collaboration with Assessorato dellAmbiente
del Comune di Firenze (Environmental Councillor of the Municipality of Florence) in the memory of
Tommaso Fiorentino: friend and fellow in Environmental Engineering at the University of Florence
who tragically passed away in November 2003.
The objective of the award is to facilitate the exchange of experience and ideas in the field of
Appropriate Technology among students and professors of the international academia community.
In particular, South of the World indicates all the realities where human development and access
to resources is limited by whatever cause, without considering neither the geographic location nor
the reason of such limitations (historical, political, economical or natural).
Tattarillo award aims to deepen and circulate the concept of Appropriate Technology as an
instrument for sustainable human development in poor areas. The award is intended to recognize
outstanding work by promising young students and researchers in the field.
Tattarillo Award will assign 3 prises of 1000 each. The prises will be awarded by a jury
appointed by the ISF board. The jury members will be composed by members of Italian academia
and recognized experts in the field of the submitted theses. The jury will be appointed after the

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closing date specified in these regulations and will be published on the web site www.firenze.isfitalia.org. The proceedings of the 5th edition will be published in paper form and delivered to all the
participants free of charge, see Art. 3 for the definition of participants. The public award ceremony
will be held on 17th June, 2011 in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The public ceremony will start at 3
pm.
Art. 2 Entry Phase and Entry Pack
Any person graduated in any University at Bachelor, MS, or PhD level may enter the competition.
The theses may belong to any faculty; they are not limited to Engineering faculties. The entrants
must send all the material (in the following Entry Pack) no later than the 31st of March, 2011:
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Entry Pack
Admission form (paper form): the admission form must be filled out as specified on the
web site www.firenze.isf-italia.org. A copy of the admission form must be send also to the
following email address: premiotattarillo@gmail.com; this email is intended only for
organization purpose and has no evidence for participation at the award;
Thesis report (paper and digital form): the participant must submit a presentation of
his/her thesis in the form of a report (maximum 6 A4 pages) including figures and an
abstract of 500 keystrokes. The report must present the objective of the thesis in relation
with the south reality involved and address preferably all the evaluation classes specified
in the following Art. 6. The report must be written as specified on the web site
www.firenze.isf-italia.org;
Copy of the thesis (only digital form) (in pdf);
Declaration of veracity (paper form) filled out as specified on the web site
www.firenze.isf-italia.org;
A2 poster (digital format, non-binding), as specified on the web site www.firenze.isfitalia.org.

All the requested material may be written in Italian or English with the exception of the abstract,
which must be written in English. Entrants that are not English mother tongues are encouraged to
submit the full report in English. All the material in digital form must be collected on a single CD or
DVD.
The defence of the submitted thesis must have been held between the closing date of the present
award and no earlier than 1st January 2008. The entrants must send the Entry Pack, via post or
brevi manu, in a single sealed envelope directed to:
Thesis Submission to Tattarillo Award
Ingegneria Senza Frontiere Firenze ONLUS
c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile
Via di Santa Marta 3, 50134 Firenze
Admission will be denied for incomplete Entry Pack, for an Entry Pack not prepared as specified on
the web site www.firenze.isf-italia.org, and for an Entry Pack received after the closing date.
The entrants are allowed to attach further material in digital format that is considered useful for the
evaluation process. The jury will decide to analyse such additional material on a case per case
basis during the evaluation phase.

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Art. 3 Admission to the Competition

Entrants are admitted to the competition if the thesis has been defended between the 1st of
January of 2008 and the closing date as specified in Art. 2.
After having analysed all the received entry packs, ISF will publish a list of the entrants admitted to
the evaluation phase (in the following Participants) on his web site www.firenze.isf-italia.org.
In the case of exclusion from the evaluation phase, ISF will communicate to the entrant the reason
of such decision. The entrants may appeal to such decision and submit a formal request for
reconsideration no later then fifteen (15) days after the publication of the admitted entrants. ISF will
reconsider the appeal applicants and will publish an unquestionable decision after fifteen (15) days
from the reception of the appeal.
The theses submitted to the previous editions of Tattarillo award will not be admitted to the
Evaluation Phase.
Art. 4 Submitted Material
The submitted material of the admitted theses will not be returned.
The excluded entrants may ask for the submitted material to be returned. The material will be
available for collection at ISF office at the address specified in Art. 2 or sent by post; in this case,
the recipient will be charged for shipping costs.
Art. 5 Evaluation Phase
The evaluation phase is conducted by the jury. The jury will award the prises with an
unquestionable decision. The evaluation phase will be conducted based on the report submitted in
the Entry Pack. The full text of the thesis, the poster, and additional material will be considered on
a case per case basis for closer examination. The evaluation phase will provide a ranking following
the evaluation classes reported in Art. 6.
Art. 6 Evaluation Classes
The evaluation phase will be conducted following fourteen (14) evaluation classes: to each
admitted thesis a score will be assigned for each class independently, according to the specified
range. The total score assigned to each thesis is given by the sum of the detailed evaluation
classes reported.

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EVALUATION CLASSES
(the reported descriptions are not comprehensive)
MOTIVATION FOR THE THESIS
(how the idea was born, how much the thesis is related to the South reality involved)
LINK WITH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
(what are the links with the local community, how inspection surveys were performed (if
any), and in which manner such surveys were conducted, what are the links with the
local institutions)
INVOLVMENT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
(how the local community has been involved in the decisional process, what was the
grade of co-participation)
KWOLOEDGE OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND ATTENTION TO THE NEEDS
(how and how much the local context has been analysed in order to derive the real
needs of the community)
OBJECTIVE OF THE THESIS
(how the objectives have been identified and how they are related to the local needs)
ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR SIMILAR
PROBLEMS AND ADOPTED DESIGN CRITERIA
(how the traditional technological approaches have been analysed and compared with
the proposed design, how the result of such traditional approaches have been used to
develop the proposed solution)
REPRODUCIBILITY OF THE SOLUTION WITH LOCAL AVAILABLE RESOURCES
(how the availability of the local resources have been included in the design criteria)
SIMPLICITY IN DESIGN, MANGAMENT AND MAINTANANCE
(how simplicity have been addressed and considered for the design and maintenance of
the proposed solutions)
MULTIDISCIPLINARITY
(how the design interacts with other non technological disciplines)
SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC SUSTANABILITY
(what are the impacts of the proposed solution and how the impacts have been
estimated)
COMPLETENESS OF THE ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION
(how much the analysis has covered the scientific elaboration of the solution, how the
solution has been presented)
ACHIEVED RESULTS AND POSSIBLE FUTURE ROADMAP
(what are (if any) the results obtained with the thesis, what are the possible future
developments)
KWOLEDGE HANDOVER TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
(how the technological handover to the local community have been analysed, what is the
knowledge level required to achieve a successfully transfer)
EXTRA SCORE AVAILABLE TO THE JURY
TOTAL SCORE

SCORE
(min max)
03

03

04

0 - 10
05

0 10

0 10
0 10
0 10
0 10

0 10

0 10

0 10
05
0 110

Art. 7 Evaluation Jury

The evaluation of the admitted theses is performed uniquely by the jury appointed by ISF. The jury
will perform the evaluation phase in a clear and open manner. For each admitted thesis, the score
for each evaluation class will be published on the web site www.firenze.isf-italia.org. The decision
of the jury is unquestionable.
The jury will be appointed shortly after the submission closing date. The jury will be appointed by
ISF Steering Committee; the minutes of the Steering Committee meeting are regularly published
on the web site www.firenze.isf-italia.org for consultation.

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The jury will be composed by ISF fellows, delegates of the Environmental Councillor of the
Municipality of Florence and of the sponsors, and experts in the fields covered by the admitted
theses. The participants and their relatives of any grade will not be appointed as part of the jury.
The jury reserves the right to:
- decide not to award one or more of the prises
- award one or more prises ex aequo
It is a right of the jury to award the prises dividing the admitted theses in categories. The categories
may be based on the level of the theses (Bachelor, MS, PhD) or on the technical field covered. In
any case, the number of categories will not exceed the maximum number of the prises (3). The jury
may assign, at his unquestionable will, one or more worthy of note award.
Art. 8 Public Communication of the outcome of the evaluation phase
The outcome of the evaluation phase will be published on the web site www.firenze.isf-italia.org no
later than the end of the fourth month after the submission closing date.
The winners will be personally contacted in order to arrange the presentation of the thesis at the
public ceremony. The attendance at the public ceremony is an essential condition (sine qua non) to
receive the prize. The winner participants may delegate a presenter previously communicated to
ISF. The delegate must have the skill to soundly present the thesis in front of a technical audience.
Art. 9 - Prises
Tattarillo award will assign 3 prises of 1000 each to the author/authors of the winning theses.
Each prize will be delivered in a single instalment. In the case it will not be possible to assign the
prize to the authors, or in the case of refusal, the prise will be assigned following in descending
order the evaluation list. The prizes are intended before tax.
Art. 10 Public Ceremony
The public ceremony will be held on 17th June 2011. At the public ceremony all the entrants will be
personally invited via email. The public ceremony will be held in the Salone de Dugento hall in
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence starting at 3 pm.
The jury will decide a list of outstanding theses that will be presented during the public ceremony.
A reimbursement for travel expenses will be provided, dividing the allocated budget equally to the
author/s presenting their work and proportionally to the documented expenses. The presentation of
receipts is necessary condition to request for reimbursement.
Each participant will receive a participation certificate and a copy of the proceedings in paper form
with all the reports of the admitted theses.
The received poster will be put on an exhibition during the public ceremony. ISF reserves the right
to put the poster on an exhibition in other public events that may be organised after the public
ceremony.
Art. 11 Verification of the submitted Entry Pack
Before the date of the public ceremony, the jury reserves the right to verify the accuracy and
truthfulness of the submitted entry packs. In case of lack of correspondence, the jury reserves the
right to exclude from the competition any of the admitted theses at any phase of the Tattarillo
award (including eventual winning theses).
Art. 12 General Rules
The act of sending the Entry Pack implies the full acceptance of the present rules. Possible
modifications to the present rules may be issued by the mean of a formal decision of the ISF
Steering Committee.

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The ISF Steering Committee will guarantee the correct execution of the Tattarillo award.
The official organ for all the communication regarding the present Tattarillo award is the ISF web
site www.firenze.isf-italia.org and the Tattarillo award email address: premiotattarillo@gmail.com.
Art. 13 Privacy and Data Protection
ISF processes personal data in compliance with the European Data Protection Directive
(95/46/EC). To ensure that the entrants information that ISF holds is accurate and up-to-date,
entrants will notify ISF as soon as possible regarding to relevant changes in contact details as for
the matter of this award. ISF will collect and hold entrants data that are necessary for the
administration and reviewing process of the Tattarillo Thesis Award.
Entrants agree with the fact that ISF provides the aforementioned material specified in Art.2 to the
jury members for reviewing purposes, and to the corporate sponsors of the Tattarillo Thesis Award.
Entrants agree with the fact that ISF may publish any submitted information on the ISF website, the
ISF monthly newsletter, and in any press release regarding the Tattarillo Thesis Award, in paper or
digital form.
Entrants may from time to time receive information about ISF initiatives.

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