Eligible for CONSTANTINUS 2008 are all members of the professional association of Management Consultancy and Information Technology (UBIT) of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. The special award on accounting is open only for commercial accountants of the professional association UBIT and the chamber of chartered accountants, tax advisors and licensed bookkeepers. There can only be submitted projects finished between Jan. 1st 2006, and April 4th, 2008.
For CONSTANTINUS International also non-Austrian consulting and IT businesses are eligible.
Parties interested in participation, should submit their documents via online questionnaire latest 04-14-2008 (Date of arrival). Per participant 2 projects can be submitted for evaluation. Handling expenses per project are Euro 190,- plus sales tax.
In addition each Austrian entrant may participate in the following awards without further expenses:
For a fee of another EUR 250,- plus sales tax all nominees will receive the following benefits:
1 Feature on IP-TV, including the rights to use for one year; publication of their submitted project on www.constantinus.net; publication in the special supplement of a leading Austrian daily newspaper; 1 text for press release at their free disposal; web link to the “wall of fame” on www.constantinus.net; free use of the Constantinus Winners Club logo for one year.
The participants receive the invoice of the participation fee via letter post after their final registration. For valid submission fees must be paid (date of arrival) within 4 weeks, but not later than April 30th, 2008.
The Publication Fee will be invoiced after the nominees have been determined. The Constantinus Club must have obtained payments by no later than one week prior to the Gala.
After the deadline a jury is evaluating the entries.
The decision of the jury to whom the CONSTANTINUS AWARD is being allocated takes place until 06-04-2008. Awarding and publication takes place on 06-05-2008.
Strictly those projects that are in accordance with the eligibility requirements and whose payments the Constantinus Club has obtained on time can be admitted to evaluation process.
The participants are being informed as soon as the finalists of the CONSTANTINUS 2008 are determined.
The participants have no bearing on the allocation of, the assessment of or the decision of the jury. The participants particularly have no right of co determination, nor the right to take legal action against the decision of the jury.
The decision of the jury is irrevocable. Legal action is excluded.
The laureate commits him/herself to attend the award ceremony in person and to accept the award him/herself. In case of groups or businesses this may occur with only two representatives.
The granting of the CONSTANTINUS AWARD 2008 takes place publicly in the course of the CONSTANTINUS Gala 2008 on June 5th 2008.
The participant bears all possible taxes connected to the acceptance of non-cash prizes.
With participation and submission of the online entry form the participant in the CONSTANTINUS agrees that his submitted data can be used within the line of CONSTANTINUS marketing activities (by CONSTANTINUS CLUB and sponsors and co-operation partners). Further the participant grants the CONSTANTINUS CLUB the right to publish details on the project of submission.
As organizer of the competition the CONSTANTINUS CLUB may involve other businesses in the realization of the competition. In these terms they together are named as organizers.
In addition the sponsors and cooperation partners are also involved in the realization of the competition.
As far as there are no exceptions in the terms the entrants have no claim on compensation for the expenses, efforts and cost emerging in the context of the CONSTANTINUS AWARD.
If any damage should happen to an entrant in the context auf their participation, the organizer and sponsors are liable only if the damage was caused by their gross negligence.
Concerning send in material there is no right to restitution.
The organizer reserves the right to himself to exclude submissions without giving a reason, in particular if the fee has not been paid in due time, if the submission was untruthful or incomplete or if the client denied his consent.
The participants have no bearing on the allocation of, the assessment of or the decision of the jury. The participants particularly have no right of co determination, nor the right to take legal action against the decision of the jury.
The organizers and sponsors of the CONSTANTINUS AWARD intend to and may present the send in projects to the public. This may occur in particular through presentations of the projects in the context of public relations, in printed media, CD-ROM’s, in the Internet, Radio or Television. In any case projects will be presented to the public in the course of the award ceremony CONSTANTINUS Gala 2007.
In the course of the presentation the projects may be shown as a whole or partial, on their own or in association with other projects or means of presentation (Video, Pictures, Music, etc.)
The participants grant the territorial and temporal and in content unlimited rights for the abovementioned uses. Included is every kind of entire or partial publication or rendering or duplication or performance or broadcasting or publication on web pages or any kind of media or broadcasting of the award ceremony.
They permit the use of the project related Names and brand names and grant the respectively necessary permits and licenses especially in regard to availability in the Internet, duplication, distribution, public rendering and broadcasting. The CONSTANTINUS CLUB-Verein für die Förderung von österreichischen Beratungs- und IT- und Dienstleistungsunternehmen does not aspire the commercial utilization of the content of the projects.
As far as there are articles (brand names, logos, pictures, music, text etc.) of a third party included in the projects the entrants declare to hold the rights for necessary licenses and rights. The participants grant the right of exploitation to the CONSTANTINUS CLUB -Verein für die Förderung von österreichischen Beratungs-und IT- und Dienstleistungsunternehmen for the abovementioned purpose. Further the participants agree to keep the organizers and sponsors from claims or demands of a third party, based on the third party’s claimed rights on the projects of submission.
The organizers and sponsors engage themselves to put the projects to the use of the abovementioned presentations and public relations uses only plus promotion of the industry and the economic sector. The organizers are forbidden to put the projects of submission to any further use especially targeted on profit or commercial utilization of the submissions through economic implementation beyond the abovementioned propagation and publication or presentation. In this respect the copyrights remain with the participants only.
The participants explicitly consent to inquiry and saving and processing and passing on of their data by the organizers and sponsors. The organizers and sponsors engage themselves to not pass on the data to institutions not linked to the competition.
The participants are committed to inform the organizer concerning all events compromising the adequate and orderly realization of the competition immediately. Significant circumstances are all circumstances compromising further participation or making the legitimate participation appear questionable. It also covers all information concerning contributors, participants and coauthors.
The laureate commits him/herself to attend the award ceremony in person and to accept the award him/herself. In case of groups or businesses this may occur with only two representatives.
The organizers and sponsors reserve the right to themselves to arrange the realization of the competition according to available human and financial resources and to determine and change the content and date of the award. There is no legal claim of the entrants on execution of the competition or on being awarded as well as on participation in the award ceremony or on the award ceremony taking place on a certain date.
The participant bears all possible taxes connected to the acceptance of non-cash prizes.