The 2015 ESPO Award

This year, the seventh ESPO Award on Societal Integration of Ports will focus on a port’s relationship with schools and universities and seeks a port which actively engages with them for the benefit of the wider community.

So if your port has a project or developed a strategy that involves local academic institutions in raising awareness for port activities, then ESPO would like to hear from you.

ESPO said that the winning project will make young people knowledgeable of the port industry and excite them about entering into a career in the port at all levels. The award will be given to a port which is actively working to promote a better understanding of the port within its community.

The winner of the seventh ESPO Award will be announced during an award ceremony taking place on 10 November in Brussels. The shortlisted projects will be presented on the ESPO website in the run up to the ceremony.

The ESPO Award was established in 2009 to promote innovative port projects that improve societal integration of ports, especially with the city or wider community, in which they are located. In this way, it aims to stimulate the sustainable development of European ports and their cities.

Previous winners of the award include the Port of Gijón (2009), the Port of Helsinki (2010), the Ports of Stockholm (2011), the Port of Genoa (2012), the Port of Antwerp (2013) and the Port of Koper (2014).