Why such an award?

In public administrations across Europe, countless IT solutions and services are in place that could often easily be reused by other public administrations. Reuse of successful existing software would stop continuous reinvention of the wheel and could help to save time and costs for users and administrations alike. Moreover it could increase interoperability between systems.

Competition conditions
Winners will receive EUR 15 000 and EUR 10 000 in prize money respectively for IT solutions and services that meet the criteria in one of the following four categories:

• cross-border administrations
• national administrations
• regional administrations
• local administrations

Contenders that would like to participate in the competition for the 'Sharing & Reuse Award' can register their project here. The competition is open until 28 October 2016 and the prizes will be announced in March 2017.

The competition is organised under the EU programme ISA² that supports the modernisation of Public administrations at all levels across Europe through the development of interoperable, reusable IT solutions.

Further information on the competition is available here.