During a well-attended and entertaining award ceremony which took place on Thursday 17 November 2011 at the Provincial Government House in Maastricht, EIPA handed over the European Public Sector Award 2011 to the three winning projects: “Political Management based on Economic Stringency and Strategic Budgets”, submitted by the Bilbao City Council in Spain; “Civil Society Involvement in the Welcoming and Integration of Immigrants – The Case of Portugal”, submitted by the Portuguese High Commission for Immigr
The EPSA 2011 Team is pleased to announce that the high-level EPSA 2011 Jury met on 5 September last at EIPA Maastricht to proceed to the final selection of the 15 nominees (5 per theme) from among 21 applications that had been visited on-site in June and July. The 15 nominated projects come from 9 countries; 10 have been submitted by the local level of government, 4 by the regional level and 1 by the national level. These 15 projects ( List of 15 Nominees ) were still running for the 3 awards. The 3 winner
As a result of the online evaluation and consensus meeting, the evaluators also identified a number of applications per theme that were awarded an EPSA 2011 Best Practice Certificate. In total, 58 projects submitted by 18 European countries received a recognition in 2011. Since 15 of these applications have been upgraded to the status of nominees, the actual number of BPC recipients is 43 ( List of the 43 EPSA 2011 Best Practice Certificate Recipients ). These BPC were handed over on 15 November in the e