Swiss Award CC dissolves supporting association - ZHAW realizes publication
With the sale of the Swiss Award Corporate Communications to PR Suisse, the Benefactors' Association was dissolved. The financial legacy will enable a publication to be implemented by the ZHAW.
Agreement for the publication "Hall of Fame" confirmed: President Urs Frei and Ursina Ghilardi, Director of Studies CAS ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
The purpose of the association "Supporters Swiss Award Corporate Communications" was to support the Swiss Award Corporate Communications (Swiss Award CC), the only Swiss award for corporate communications. This related to the annual implementation since 2005, the positioning and further development with financial, but also with personal, infrastructural and knowledge resources.
Through the sale of the prize at the beginning of 2019 to the Swiss Public Relations Association SPRV PR Suisse and the takeover of the operational implementation by the new sponsor, the Benefactors' Association was dissolved. The members - former award winners and jurors - decided to dissolve the association at its fourth general meeting in the Europaallee Zurich. According to the statutes, the assets will go to an institution that "fulfills a similar purpose".
The board proposal was accepted by the members present: The previous knowledge partner of the Swiss Award CC, the Institute IAM for Applied Media Science, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences will conduct a second evaluation of the award-winning projects of the last years with a group of students under the leadership of the previous jury chairman Prof. Dr. Peter Stücheli-Herlach. Together with the award winners, a publication on Swiss corporate communications will be realized.
The board with the president Urs Frei (Heineken) and the two board members Irene Fischbach (Swissgrid) and founder Swiss Award CC Roland Bieri (Bi-Com) were thanked for their voluntary commitment.
