About AwardScience. Fair programmes, less admin.

AwardScience is award management software: an online portal and judging system for running awards, grants and scholarships, from nomination through to results. It is built and operated by KY & Company in Hong Kong, and was previously known as Nobel.

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2019Building since

180Markets reached

30+Field types, no code

Trusted by leading foundations and enterprises

Why we built an agile platform

Programmes change every cycle: new categories, new criteria, new rules. AwardScience was built so the people running them can change it themselves, fast.

Built from real programmes

AwardScience grew out of the award and application portals KY & Company has run for government bodies, non-profits and corporates since 2019. The same problems kept recurring: manual judging, scattered documents and decisions that were hard to defend.

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No-code configuration, so programmes can change

Forms, workflows, roles, judging rounds and the public programme site are configured by your own team, without engineering. When the rules change mid-cycle, you change the programme the same day rather than raising a development request.

No-Code BuilderDrag-and-Drop Workflow30+ Field Types

An AI assistant that gets you live faster

Describe a programme in plain language and the AI assistant drafts the structure, the forms and the workflow for you to review. Teams go from brief to a working programme in days, and adjust it cycle after cycle without starting over.

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Made for decisions that get scrutinised

Built for programmes where the outcome is public and has to stand up to challenge. Conflict-aware judge assignment, blind scoring and a timestamped record of every judging action come as standard, and people make every decision.

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Global by design, local by default

One platform for enterprise programmes worldwide, with each customer’s data kept in the region they choose.

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180

markets reached by a single programme

hosting geographies: EU, US, APAC

AWS regions with in-geography recovery

24/7

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How AwardScience is run

Enterprise programmes need more than features. Here is how we run the platform they depend on.

Documented and tested

A documented information security programme, disaster recovery tested across regions, and an ISO/IEC 27001 certification programme under way.

Security programme

Your region, your data

Hosted in the EU, the US or Asia-Pacific, with the region fixed by contract. See the subprocessor register.

Data residency

People decide

AI never decides an outcome, and no customer data trains any model. See Responsible AI.

Responsible AI

The company behind AwardScience. Built and operated by KY & Company (KYWH Limited), Hong Kong.

Subprocessors Responsible AI kyand.co

Questions about AwardScience

Who we are, where we run, and how the platform works.

What is AwardScience?

AwardScience is award management software: an online portal and judging system for running awards, grants and scholarships, from nomination and submission through judging and results.

Who makes AwardScience?

AwardScience is built and operated by KY & Company (KYWH Limited), a Hong Kong digital transformation company founded in 2019.

Is AwardScience the same as Nobel?

Yes. AwardScience was previously called Nobel. It is the same platform, built by the same team, serving the same customers under a new name.

Do we need developers to set up a programme?

No. Forms, workflows, roles, judging rounds and the programme site are configured without code, and the AI assistant can draft the programme structure from a plain-language brief for your team to review.

Where is AwardScience based?

AwardScience is built in Hong Kong. Customer data is hosted in the region each customer chooses: the EU, the US or Asia-Pacific.

Who uses AwardScience?

Corporates, government-backed programmes and research funders, including Lenovo for its global partner awards and Agency for Volunteer Service for the Hong Kong Volunteer Award.

Does AwardScience use AI to pick winners?

No. AI removes administrative work, such as building forms and reading documents, but people make every decision that affects an applicant.