Public Leadership Award 2027

Working together to make the public sector fit for the future

Germany faces a landmark challenge: it must consolidate its competitiveness in the long term and find its way back to the top of the international innovation rankings. A key factor in this is the modernisation of the public sector.

Public administrations must promote bold ideas and delegate more responsibility to high-performing staff in order to enable sustainable progress and innovation. At the same time, demographic change calls for new approaches to tackling skills shortages and public finances. Concrete answers are needed here – not only at federal level, but particularly in the federal states and local authorities.

Within local administrations, numerous dedicated people work every day to make processes more efficient, digital and modern. However, traditional structures often stand in their way. Bold leaders, innovative teams and forward-looking projects can here make the decisive difference by preparing the administration to meet current and future challenges.

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You can nominate an outstanding figure from the world of politics for the Award for State Reform, Federalism & Legislation .

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Nominate yourself with an outstanding project, team or organisation for the

Award for Public IT, Data & Digital Sovereignty
Award for Finance, Resources & Impact Management
Award for Leadership, Organisation & Implementation
Award for Human Resources, Skills & Working Environment
Award for Administrative Services, Digital Processes & Innovation

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The Public Leadership Award will be presented for the fifth time in 2027 as part of the 13th Future Congress on State & Administration – under the patronage of the Federal Ministry for Digitalisation and State Modernisation.