A Canadian commemorative medal has been created to mark His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation on May 6, 2023. The King Charles III Coronation Medal is a visible and tangible way to recognize outstanding individuals of all ages and from all walks of life who have made a difference in their communities. The medal will highlight themes that both King Charles III and Canadians value, including service, the environment and sustainability, and our nation’s diversity.
Universities Canada (UC) has been identified as a nominator for the upcoming King Charles III Coronation Medal and they have allotted 4 submissions for consideration to the University of Waterloo. Faculty, staff, and students are all eligible for this medal.
For faculty members, we will be inviting each of the 6 Faculties to submit up to 4 internal nominations. Interested Applicants should contact the Associate Dean of Research for their Faculty to determine internal nomination process.
For students, we would invite the Faculty to consider the best approach as we defer to your wisdom on how to ensure any relevant students would be considered for this award. If you would like to discuss further, please let us know.
The Office of Research is requesting that each Faculty submit their nominees’ to awards@uwaterloo. Each application should consist of a 500-word document and a copy of the nominees’ CV. The 500-word document should address each aspect of the selection criteria:
- Theme
- Service to community, organization, or institution;
- The environment and sustainability; or
- Our nation’s diversity
- Impact
- How the nominee has helped to build the Canada of today
- Achievements and Impacts
- Contributions to country, province, territory, region, or community
- Leadership
- How the nominee has distinguished themselves from others in the same field through their achievements and sustained contributions
- Provide evidence of initiative, leadership, and distinction
- Address one of the following
- Integrity - how the nominee has demonstrated long service and good conduct as a volunteer or member of an organization
- Professionalism - how the nominee has demonstrated high professionalism
- Pride - how the deeds or activities of the nominee have brought great credit to Canada
The 500-word document and the nominees’ CV must be submitted to the Office of Research Awards team by 4:30pm on October 11, 2024.
A multidisciplinary committee will adjudicate the final nominees and provide feedback to them by October 28, which will allow approximately three weeks for nominees to improve their final nomination packages.
Please send your vetted nominee packages to awards@uwaterloo.ca. Please let us know if you have any questions!
Full details of the final submission for Universities Canada are listed below.
King Charles III Coronation Medal
Nomination guidelines
General Information
A Canadian commemorative medal has been created to mark His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation on May 6, 2023. The King Charles III Coronation Medal is a visible and tangible way to recognize outstanding individuals of all ages and from all walks of life who have made a difference in their communities.
The medal will highlight themes that both King Charles III and Canadians hold dear, including service, the environment and sustainability, and our nation’s diversity.
Universities Canada has been invited by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General to participate in the program as a community partner and allotted 57 medals to present to individuals for this national honour.
Universities Canada seeks to present medals to a selection of individuals that reflect the demographics of Canada’s Universities including students, educators, researchers, staff and volunteers, with particular attention to individuals belonging to groups that have been historically under-represented.
Nominating partners of Universities Canada are being given the opportunity to submit a pre-determined number of nominations for consideration by Universities Canada’s selection committee.
For more information about the Medal, visit the Governor General of Canada's website.
Eligibility criteria
Individuals (not groups or organizations) who:
- have made a significant contribution to the country, a province, territory, region, or community, or who have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada; and
- were alive on May 6, 2023, the date His Majesty was crowned (nominations can be made posthumously, as long as the nominee was alive on that date).
*Please note that self-nominations will not be accepted and selection processes by nominating partners should be non-partisan and merit-based.
Guidelines for the selection of nominees
Nominations must highlight one or more of the themes that both King Charles III and Canadians hold dear, including service, the environment and sustainability, and our nation’s diversity.
Nominations should focus on the achievements of persons who have helped build the Canada of today, including youth, volunteers, educators, veterans, and healthcare workers.
Nominees may be selected for their:
- long service and good conduct as a volunteer or member of an organization; or
- demonstrated high professionalism; or
- performance of a deed or activity that brings great credit to Canada.
Through their achievements and sustained contributions, nominees will have distinguished themselves from others in the same field.
Nominations should be inclusive and reflect the demographics of the region or community, with particular attention given to individuals belonging to groups that have been historically under-represented.
Selection criteria
- Each submission must include an overall summary explaining the nature, significance and impact of the nominee’s contributions to their community (maximum 250 words).
To fully inform the merit-review adjudication, nominations must also address the following:
- Theme - Which theme(s) is highlighted through the achievements and contributions of the nominee *select one or more
- service (i.e. service to community, organization or institution);
- the environment and sustainability; or
- our nation’s diversity.
- Impact - How the individual has helped to build the Canada of today. Discuss the achievements and impacts of the nominee, focusing on the contributions they have made to the country, province, territory, region, or community (maximum 250 words).
*If possible, please quantify the impact. If the impact is not easily quantifiable, please use qualitative data and/or storytelling to demonstrate the transformative impact.
- Leadership - How the individual has distinguished themselves from others in the same field through their achievements and sustained contributions. Discuss evidence of initiative, leadership and distinction (maximum 250 words).
- Nominations must also address one of the following (maximum 250 words):
- Integrity – Highlight how the nominee has demonstrated long service and good conduct as a volunteer or member of an organization; or
- Professionalism – Highlight how the nominee has demonstrated high professionalism; or
- Pride – Highlight how the deeds or activities of the nominee have brought great credit to Canada.
Additional application information required
The following details about the nominee are mandatory fields in the submission portal:
- Prefix
- First name
- Last name
- Preferred language
- Gender
- Affiliated organization name
- Job title
- Mailing address
- Sector selection *choose one o Arts and Media
- Business, Industry and Economy
- Community Service and Philanthropy
- Education
- Health Care and Medicine
- Politics, Public Service and Justice
- Science, Technology and Innovation
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- Sports
One web link is permitted per nomination.
Confirmation and consent checkbox questions
- Confirmation that the nominee was alive on May 6, 2023, the date His Majesty was crowned.
- Confirmation that, to the best of your knowledge, the nominee has not been convicted of a criminal offence, an official sanction or conducted themselves in a manner that may undermine the credibility of the Canadian Honours System or detract from the intent of the award.
- Confirmation that the nominee has reviewed the information contained in the submission, understands that all successful recipient names and their nominators will be published and consents to the nomination.