Deadline: 30-Jun-25
Submissions are now open for the World Smart City Awards 2025 to recognize and support innovative city strategies, projects, and ideas that can significantly impact citizens’ lives and transform cities into better places to live.
Categories
- They’re looking for game-changing projects linked to the following categories:
- City Award:
- The City Award celebrates cities with a global strategy combining innovation, collaboration, inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
- Innovation Award:
- The Innovation Award recognizes original initiatives and creative solutions improving communities.
- Leadership Award:
- The Leadership Award honors individuals who’ve made significant contributions in the last decade. The Hall of Fame of smart urban development!
- Project Awards:
- The different Project Awards consider successful implemented projects developed in a specific area:
- Enabling Technologies
- Energy & Environment
- Mobility
- Governance & Economy
- Living & Inclusion
- Infrastructure & Building
- The different Project Awards consider successful implemented projects developed in a specific area:
- City Award:
Prize Information
- The winners will be awarded with the following prizes. All benefits are applicable to the 2026 edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress.
- The winners of the 2025 awards will, during the 2026 edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress, have the right to:
- 1 speaking slot in the Smart City Expo World Congress, defined by the organization;
- 5 congress passes (three-day full pass to the expo and congress sessions);
- Publicity of the award via various communication media.
Who can participate?
- The World Smart City Awards are aimed at both public and private sector, cities, businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, digital innovators, developers, research centres, universities, civic techs, civil society representatives, non-governmental organizations, cooperatives, consortiums (public-private), social activists and individuals, with innovative ideas, analyses, studies, visions and solutions for the management and development of their cities.
For more information, visit Fira de Barcelona.