The European Institute of Public Administration (
EIPA) – mandated by its Board of Governors' decision of 1 July 2008, and with the institutional and financial support of 15 European States and the European Commission (Patronage Commissioner Sim Kallas) - organises the second European Public Sector Award – EPSA 2009. The EPSA 2009 will be awarded on the occasion of a high-level conference on leading-edge public administration solutions, to be held in Maastricht (NL) in November 2009, under the auspices of the Swedish Presidency.
This prestigious award recognises the best and most innovative performers in European public administration. After a long process of assessment, the four prize winners were finally announced.
The winners in the four categories are:
e-Bourgogne (France), Regional Platform for e-Services for All won the first prize in the theme for Performance Improvement in Public Service Delivery.
The Cologne Participatory Budget (Germany) received the first prize in the theme of Citizen Involvement.
The winner in the third theme of New Forms of Partnership Working, is the
Oldham Local Strategic Partnership (United Kingdom).
In the fourth theme, Leadership and Management for Change, the winner is the Management in the
San Cugat City Hall project (Spain).
In addition, two projects received honourable mention, namely the
Gdynia Civic Sector project from Poland and the
Present in School, Absent in Jail project from Romania.