Civic Excellence

Enhance civic spirit by standing alongside the world’s most livable communities and celebrating your city’s global standing.

International Spotlight

Showcase your city’s achievements on a global stage, influencing peers and positioning your community as an international leader.

Global Best Practices

Observe presentations of international best practices and discover proven solutions to the challenges facing your city today.

Driven Innovation

Encourage a culture of innovation by learning new methodologies and creative approaches to urban management.

Global Networking

Connect with international delegates to exchange experiences and form strategic partnerships that transcend borders and cultures.

Economic Growth

Leverage award success to boost your city’s global profile, driving tourism and attracting vital inward capital investment.

A Glance About Us

The LivCom Awards

The International Awards for Liveable Communities/LivCom Awards were launched in 1997 and is the World’s major Awards Competition focusing on International Best Practice regarding the management of the local environment and development. The objective of LivCom Awards is to develop and share International Best Practices, with further objective of improving living quality of individual citizens through the creation of “liveable communities”. As a UN-backed Awards Competition, LivCom partners an MOU with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2007, followed by establishing partnership with multiple UN Agencies and international organizations afterwards.

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Award Categories

Judging Criteria

Communities of different sizes and in different cultures have different structures and responsibilities.

Whole City Award

Explain what practical measures have been taken by your city on meeting the interests and needs of older persons, and promoting active ageing.

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Project Award

Eligible Projects will be those that have been completed within the past two years, or those of which a significant proportion has been completed.

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Technology and Solution Award

Focuses on innovative “technologies” or “solutions” dealing with confirmed problems and challenges in a particular field of sustainable development.

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Featured Mayors’ Comments on the LivCom Awards

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We won the overall gold 1st place for our city population, they bumped us into a little bigger population because of our daytime population, so cities between 75,000 and 150,000, and we won first in that. St. Cloud was the only American city at this year’s awards, which cities have to be invited to apply for.

Dave Kleis
Mayor of St. Cloud, USA

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Working to develop these four policy documents has been a unique and rewarding experience. The team led the municipality through a grass-roots community engagement process creating a long term planning framework that will guide current and future councils and staff.

Kim Martinsen
Chief Administrative Officer of Telkwa, Canada

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A majority of people live in cities and city life has become a common lifestyle. It offers city managers with an opportunity to discuss city management and development plans. Such an honor to receive the Awards!

Simon Milton
Mayor of Westminster, London, UK

Awards Timeline

Latest LivCom Awards

2025 | Avcilar Istanbul, Türkiye

The LivCom Awards 2025 took place in Avcilar Istanbul, Türkiye from 18-21 November inclusive.
Since open for registration, LivCom has received 281 applicants from 52 countries. A total of 30 cities and 37 projects from 34 countries have been invited to the Finals.

2024 | Cairo, Egypt

The LivCom Awards 2025 took place in Cairo, Egypt during 4-7 November 2024. Since open for registration, LivCom has received 281 applicants from 52 countries. A total of 30 cities and 37 projects from 34 countries have been invited to the Finals.

2023 | Cairo, Egypt

The LivCom Awards 2025 took place in Cairo, Egypt during 4-7 November 2024. Since open for registration, LivCom has received 281 applicants from 52 countries. A total of 30 cities and 37 projects from 34 countries have been invited to the Finals.

2021 | Online

Due to the global pandemic, the 2021 LivCom Presentations were organized virtually for the first time in history at 6-8 December 2021. City delegates from different corners of the world gathered online to share and celebrate their endeavors in improving environment and the living quality of their citizens.

Featured Board Members

Ola Nordmann
CEO and Founder

Tom Hampton
Co Founder

July Wood
Head Marketing

Josh Mitchell
Graphic Design

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Latest LivCom News

The 22nd LivCom Awards to be organized as an important parallel event of the WUF12 in Cairo Egypt this early November.

The LivCom Finals and Forum 2024 will be organized by the LivCom Committee in [...]

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Important Notice: The 21st LivCom Finals will be postponed to April-May 2023

The 21st LivCom Finals originally scheduled in December 2022 will be postponed to April-May [...]

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First Online International Livcom Awards will take place between 6-8 December 2021

More than 60% of world’s population will be living in cities and urban areas [...]

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Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs

It will be held in Avcilar Istanbul during 18-21 November, 2026.

Participation in the competition is free of charge. However, you will be responsible for covering your round-trip travel, accommodation and personal expenses.

For Whole City Award, the initial written submission should consist of: Maximum of 4,500 words in English – not including titles/tables/headers etc. Maximum of 24 photographs to be captioned and dated.

For Project and T&S Awards, the word limit for a Submission is 3,000, not counting photo captions, maps, tables, diagrams etc., together with up to 12 captioned photographs.

If the submissions pass the evaluation, your delegates will be invited to the Finals in Avcilar Istanbul and make onsite presentations. The Judging Criteria have been upgraded this year. Please check detailed requirements on the website.

If the Submissions pass the preliminary evaluation and the applicants are shortlisted in the Finals, a maximum of three representatives for Whole City Award, Project Award and Technology and Solution Award will be permitted to make the Presentation, plus an interpreter if required. At the end of each Presentation, the Judges will ask questions. The award results will be announced at the Awards Ceremony of LivCom Finals.

Whether to participate in or win an Award at the LivCom Finals or not will be judged by the LivCom Panel of Judges, based on the combined scores of the Submission, Finals presentation and the answers to the questions, in order to explore the best practices and innovation in building liveable communities. The International Panel of Judges comprises environmental and development management professionals, officials and senior experts from the United Nations, etc. The jury won’t tolerate applicants to falsify the information and evidence provided.

For Whole City Award, the initial written submission should consist of: Maximum of 4,500 words in English – not including titles/tables/headers etc. Maximum of 24 photographs to be captioned and dated.

For Project and T&S Awards, the word limit for a Submission is 3,000, not counting photo captions, maps, tables, diagrams etc., together with up to 12 captioned photographs.

If the submissions pass the evaluation, your delegates will be invited to the Finals in Avcilar Istanbul and make onsite presentations. The Judging Criteria have been upgraded this year. Please check detailed requirements on the website.