The ESPO Award 2025 will reward port innovative strategies and/or policies aimed at attracting more women to work in ports: The competition is open
07 March 2025
The ESPO Award on Social Integration of Ports is entering its 17th edition in 2025, and this year’s theme is “Women in Ports.”
Recognising the importance of gender balance in the maritime and port sector, ESPO aims to highlight and reward ports that have developed innovative policies and/or strategies that successfully attract more women to work in ports.
ESPO is one of the founding members of the European Commission’s “Women in Transport – EU Platform for Change,” an initiative launched in 2017 to promote gender balance in the transport sector, since on average only 22% of people working in the transport sector are women. Since 2018, ESPO has been actively monitoring gender balance within the port sector through the effective attendance of female port professionals to the different meetings of the organisation. The results of this monitoring are published annually on International Women’s Day (8 March).
With the 2025 edition of the ESPO Award, ESPO seeks to award port managing bodies that are taking proactive steps to attract more women to work in the port and pursue a comprehensive strategy to a supportive working environment for female professionals and thus enhancing the gender balance.
Project submissions have to reach the ESPO Secretariat by Friday 4 July 2025 at the latest. The application form and the terms of reference are available on the ESPO Website.
The ESPO Award winning port is selected by an independent jury of international experts on the theme of the award. The winner receives a painting out of the series “The Colours of ESPO” created exclusively for ESPO by Dutch port painter Sasja Hagens. The submitted projects are brought together into an illustrated ESPO Award booklet.
The award ceremony will take place during a dinner being held in the second week of November in Brussels.
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