Shortlist of nominees for the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award

​​The nominations of the fourth edition of the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award have been closed on 15 November and a high number of strong nominations were put forward this year. Many of them were very diverse and of a very high quality, so it was not an easy task for the Evaluation committee to decide upon a shortlist.

The committee – assessing the nominees against the eligibility and award criteria -  put forward a short-list of six nominees (two ranked equally) among whom the Jury should decide.

The Jury of the Award is composed of seven members, as follows:

·        Chair of the Jury: Patrick Molinoz, Chair of the CIVEX Commission, representing the CoR

·        Javier Zarzalejos, Chair of the LIBE Committee, representing the European Parliament

·        Magdalena Adamowicz, MEP, widow of Paweł Adamowicz

·        Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, Mayor of Gdańsk, partner of the Award​

·        Annika Stömberg, Chair of ICORN, partner of the Award

·        Jelena Drenjanin, Chair of the Governance Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, representing the Council of Europe

·        Maddalena Alberti, Director of Local Democracy Agency (LDA) Zavidovići, laureate of the Award 2023

They will need to decide who among the shortlisted candidates would become a new laureate.

The selected nominees (in the alphabetical order) are the following:

·        Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan (Palestinian and Israeli community leaders working on reconciliation between the communities)

·        Alain Chouraqui (founder of Camp des Milles, France)

·        Alexei Gorinov (Russian opposition leader at municipal level, currently imprisoned)

·        Kamira (National Federation of Roma women associations, Spain)

·        Vitali Klitschko (mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine)

·        Andriy Sadovyi (mayor of Lviv, Ukraine)

The nominators – mayors, presidents of regions, members of the CoR and of the European Parliament, national delegations at the CoR, national associations of local authorities, CoR political groups, international organisations and NGO-s – show a strong concern with the conflicts straddling European borders.

All candidates represent efforts to achieve peace, freedom, justice and integration; their fight against hate, discrimination, tyranny and war, appear as very strong strains of this year's award.

The winner will be proclaimed in Gdańsk, during the commemoration of the late mayor Paweł Adamowicz, on the 13 January 2025. The event will be transmitted and the news published on this page.

The Award ceremony will take place during the constitutive Plenary session of the European Committee of the Regions ​on 20 February in Brussels.