Awards

The CEE Summit Future-Ready Awards

 

The CEE Summit 2025 Future-Ready Awards is not your typical awards initiative. In fact, it’s very different – and very special, because the focus will be on projects currently under development.

There will be no gala, instead the focus will be firmly on future projects in the CEE region, with the presentation of the projects incorporated into the CEE Summit conference programme.

In effect, the CEE region’s future projects will be presented to CEE Summit 2025 participants as case studies.

Categories

  1. CEE Office Project of the Future
  2. CEE Retail Project of the Future
  3. CEE Warehouse & Industrial Project of the Future
  4. CEE Hotel Project of the Future
  5. CEE Living Project of the Future
  6. CEE Revitalization Project of the Future
  7. CEE City Project of the Future

Eligibility

  • In this year’s edition, projects will located in the following core CEE countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia (in future years the scope will be widened to include all countries in the region).
  • Projects must already have a construction permit but must not have been delivered to the market as of 5 June 2025 (the date of The CEE Summit conference).
  • Any company involved with a project can nominate it, but the written approval of the project developer and/or owner must be provided.
  • No payment is required to submit a project for nomination and no payment is required if the project is nominated. However, an event pass will need to be purchased for anyone wishing to attend The CEE Summit in Warsaw on 4-5 June.

Application & Nomination Process

There are three stages of the awards process:

  1. MARCH: Projects submitted for NominationProjects will be submitted to the event organizers. At this stage, only basic information needs to be provided.
  2. APRIL: Nominated Projects supply more information.The CEE Summit team will assess the submitted projects and choose projects for nomination, to go through to the next round.
  3. MAY: Nominated Projects are analyzed by Jury Members. Concurrently, they are published on social media and brought to the attention of an international audience.

How will the winners be chosen?

The winners will be chosen during a special session of the jury, which will take place in a hybrid online & in-person.

The winning projects will be announced at the closing reception at the end of The CEE Summit conference at The Hotel InterContinental Warsaw.

The Jury

The jury will consist of real estate experts from outside the CEE region. There will be at least 10 jury members, no more than one per country. The jury members will be published a few weeks before the event.

Advisory Group

There is an advisory group of experts to advise The CEE Summit team on criteria & judging methodology, made up of experts on a range of topics including sustainability, energy consumption, ESG, financial viability and market viability.

For any enquiries about the awards, please contact richard.stephens(at)polandobserver.com

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