The 5G Standard

3GPP Awards – Role of Honour

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The 3GPP Awards recognise an individuals’ contribution to 3GPP. The Excellence Awards are decided at the end of every year, when nominations from the Working Group Chairs are considered.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards are given by the Project Coordination Group, on an exceptional basis.

Excellence Award

The 3GPP Excellence Award recognises an individuals’ contribution to a 3GPP Working Group during the year. Nominations are submitted by the WG Chairs – for consideration at the December TSG Plenary meetings. As soon as the 3GPP TSG leadership have deliberated and decided on a maximum of four awards for the year; the traditional clay totems are manufactured and sent to the Working Group Chair, for their presentation during the next WG meeting..

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Year
Recipient
Working Group
2021
Peter Gaal
Martin Oettl
Jean-Michel Cornily
Peter Hedman
RAN1 - Radio layer 1
SA6 - Application Enablement and Critical Communication Applications
SA5 - Management, Orchestration and Charging
SA2 - System Architecture and Services

3GPP Lifetime Achievement Award (Created 2017)

The 3GPP Lifetime Achievement Award recognises an individuals’ contribution to the work of 3GPP over a period of time. The Award gives credit for consistent, profound and enduring contributions of outstanding significance to the work of 3GPP and its committees over a number of years.

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Year
Recipient
2021
Stephen Hayes
2019
Wan Lei
2019
Martin Israelsson
2018
Günther Horn
2017
Donald E. Zelmer
2017
Andrew Howell