Awards Won by the Department

The global COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major shifts in the day-to-day operations and lives of institutions and people around the world. In addition to mere reporting, we aimed to create “good news” messages with our videos by ensuring our stakeholders that we are doing all we can to keep them safe, supported, and able to continue with their work and studies.

MACE Bronze Award of Excellence

Social Media Engagement

2020 UFS Virtual Graduation

IABC

IABC Gold Quill Award of Excellence

2020 UFS Virtual Open Day website

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to accelerate the exploration and implementation of a web-based virtual open day experience by using innovative technologies to ensure continuous development in digitisation within the education sector.

IABC Gold Quill Award of Excellence

2020 UFS Virtual Graduation Ceremony

IABC Gold Quill Award of Merit

Social Media Engagement: 2020 UFS Virtual Graduation Ceremony

IABC Africa Silver Quill Award of Excellence

UFS Deaf Awareness Month Campaign

The need for the campaign stemmed from various activities and endeavours by Departments SASL&DS and CUADS to provide a comprehensive, inclusive environment for deaf students or those with hearing impairments.

IABC Africa Silver Quill Award of Excellence

2021 April Virtual Graduation

2020

CASE

Gold Circle of Excellence Award

Kovsie Multilingual Mokete Communication Plan

This prestigious award was also featured in an article in the International magazine, Currents: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action

IABC

International Gold Quill Merit Award

Gender-based violence awareness campaign photographs

In solidarity with #EndGenderBasedViolence, we commissioned a series of photographs to use on our various communication channels. As part of the campaign, we also created a URL, www.ufs.ac.za/911 with a series of emergency numbers and steps to take when reporting an incident.

2019

MACE

Business Issue Award

Communicating the MT Steyn Statue Review Process

The UFS Integrated Transformation Plan (ITP) shows the commitment of the UFS to widen the scope and radically accelerate transformation at the university. One of the work streams of the ITP is concerned with Names, Symbols, and Spaces. A public exhibition ensured that the review process and the statue itself remained the topic of informed intellectual conversations.

Gold awards (winner of each category)

- Issue management campaigns

Communicating the MT Steyn Statue Review Process

- Photography

Feature and documentary: Gender-based violence awareness campaign photographs

- Brand building campaigns

Kovsies Multilingual Mokete communication plan

This prestigious award was also featured in an article in the International magazine, Currents: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action

MACE Silver Award

KovsieApp communication campaign

The UFS KovsieApp Communication Campaign was aligned with two of the strategic drivers of the new Rector and Vice-Chancellor – it was a new way for students to access their personal information and receive real-time communication, especially during a crisis, from the UFS (innovation), and it encouraged our staff to embrace the change that the new app would bring (transformation).

IABC

IABC Silver Quill Excellence Award

KovsieApp Communication Campaign

IABC Silver Quill Merit Award

Communicating the MT Steyn Statue Review Process

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