Smart Country Startup Award

Clean Water Thanks to Smart Sensors and Innovative Mobility Concepts Many startups are driving digitalization in cities, communities, and public spaces with smart sensors for clean water and new mobility concepts powered by data analysis. They make our lives more efficient, modern, and simpler.

The Smart Country Startup Award, part of the Smart Country Convention, honors young companies with outstanding solutions in Smart City and GovTech categories. Bitkom promotes smart city ideas and digital administration concepts through this award.

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INNOVATION AWARD FOR BRIGHT MINDS

The Smart Country Startup Award honors outstanding innovations in the Smart City and GovTech categories. Get Started, Bitkom's startup initiative, and exclusive partners support young companies, talented founders, and visionary ideas for digitalizing public spaces through this award.

Founders and teams are invited to submit their innovative ideas and concepts, aiming to become finalists and pitch for the award. The top startups will present their projects at the Smart Country Convention before an expert jury and a live audience. Celebrate and support emerging startups shaping future cities and advancing digital administration.

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Our award offers you the unique opportunity to meet exciting young companies and talented founders, exchange ideas, and form strategic partnerships.

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Smart City

Fast parking thanks to Smart Parking, clean water through intelligent sensors, and individual waste disposal where garbage collection occurs only when the bin is full. Digitization in both urban and rural areas concerns us all. Whether it's energy and the environment, transportation, health, utilities, education, or society, innovations in Smart City and Smart Region technologies contribute to making our lives and daily routines more efficient, modern, and above all, simpler.

GovTech

Germany is still far from utilizing the full potential of available technology in administration. Innovative ideas in e-government can help administrations, public authorities, and governments reduce bureaucracy and streamline processes. From intelligent appointment scheduling to chatbots for authorities and cybersecurity solutions, these advancements benefit not only the public sector but also each individual citizen.