The Guardian University Awards give UK universities the opportunity to highlight their achievements to a vast and growing global community.

Enter for the chance to stand out as an exceptional institution, share your successes and imaginative thinking with your peers, and boost your university’s profile in the media.

To enter:

Please click register above. You will then be required to select your entry category, answer the entry questions and input your contact and payment details.

Please note that once you have started the application you will not be able to save it and come back at a later date. Please prepare your answers beforehand.

NB. How to make multiple entries:

Once you have completed your first entry you will receive a code that will allow you access to the multiple entry discount. £100+VAT per entry prior to the early bird deadline

Entry questions:

1) Outline the project, its place within your university’s strategy and what makes it innovative and inspiring (max 300 words).

2) Detail how the project was delivered, from the planning stage through to its successful conclusion (max 300 words). Include details of timing* and funding.

3) Outline the project’s outcome(s) within the university and beyond with relevant supporting evidence**, metrics or testimony (max 400 words).

* Project must have started in past 18 months but need not have finished if outcomes can be proven.
* For the ‘Sustainable buildings that inspire’ category, the capital project must have been completed within the past 24 months, but need not have started in that timeframe.
* For the ‘Research impact’ category, projects must have finished in past 24 months.
** Evidence must be provided in the text of the application except for the ‘Sustainable buildings that inspire’ category where photographic evidence is required. Please send photographs to GUA@theguardian.com. Any appendices sent in for other categories will not be considered.

Any applications submitted without payment will not be considered.

For full terms and conditions please cick here

If you have any problems with your application, please contact the Guardian events team on GUA@theguardian.com.