Background and Objectives
The ISOCARP Award for Excellence (AfE) is recognizing outstanding projects and influential professional endeavors. It rewards plans in design phase as well as projects in progress or already implemented and is open to a wide range of professionals and institutions operating in the domain of urban and regional planning. Participants are invited to submit different tools used in planners’ daily practice: normative plans, strategic plans, urban projects, programmes, policies, research works, software, smart tools facilitating planners, etc. This prestigious award is bestowed in two categories: Grand Award and Merit Award.
Eligible Entries
Submissions may include the following:
• Normative plans
• Strategic plans
• Urban plans
• Urban design projects
• Urban policies
• Research works
• Software/smart tools facilitating planners
Topics Addressed
The call for the Award covers but is not limited to, the following topics:
• Low Carbon Urban Development
• Cross-border planning for better urban governance
• Town/Country Development
• Urban Regeneration/Brownfield Redevelopment
• Temporary/Transitional Uses
• Strategic urban development and climate change-related needs
• Mobility and Accessibility • Urban/Metropolitan Ecology/Agriculture • Social Innovation/Inclusive Planning Processes
• Smart Communities • Disaster Risk Reduction
• Affordability and accessibility of technologies’ application in policymaking, planning, and urban finance
Evaluation Criteria
• Sustainability (processes, projects)
• Resilience (resources, energy efficiency, etc.)
• Alignment between planning strategies and contextual socio-economic problems
• Learning planning processes
• Innovation
Jury
The jury is composed of experienced practitioners and academics, including the following ISOCARP members:
Dr. Pietro Elisei
Dr. Dara Golubovic Matic
Dr. Sabina Dimitriu
Dr. Li Fan
Prof. Ali A. Alraouf (A&P Program Director).
Substance of the Award
The ISOCARP Award is bestowed in two categories: the Grand Award and the Merit Award. The winners will be announced during the official ceremony at the ISOCARP Annual World Planning Congress.
Grand Award: The Grand Award includes one year of free membership to ISOCARP, free entrance to the congress, an official ISOCARP plaque, an official ISOCARP certification of the award, and dissemination of the project through the ISOCARP website, social media, and newsletter.
Merit Award: The Merit Award includes free entrance to the congress, an official ISOCARP plaque, an official ISOCARP certification of the award, and dissemination of the project through the ISOCARP website, social media, and newsletter.
Registration Fee:
The registration fee for ISOCARP Institutional Members is 500 Euros for each entry, and a candidate can apply with multiple proposals. The registration for Non-ISOCARP Institutional Members is 1000 Euros for each entry, and a candidate can also apply with multiple proposals.
Note: The application is not considered eligible if the registration fee has not been paid.
Who is eligible?
- Municipalities
- Consultants
- Cities
- Institutes and Universities
Prize
- Recognition at the ISOCARP 60th Congress in Siena at the Awards Special Session.
- Certificate.
- ISOCARP Trophy.
- Waiving form the registration for a single representative of the winners.
- One year Membership at ISOCARP for a single representative of the winners.
Submission Materials
To apply, candidates must submit the following materials:
- Entry form, including a short outline
- A description of the plan/project/policy (maximum 10,000 characters with spaces)
- Drawings, maps, posters, graphical representations, and charters necessary to illustrate the work (maximum 4 A3 pages)
- A video illustrating the work
Deadline and Contact