ECEC Award

With the ECEC Award, we intend to honor exceptional Compliance efforts which have the power to inspire the Compliance community. We are looking for distinct projects in an organization’s Compliance area; it is not the idea to award the entire Compliance program or Compliance organization in general. Rather, we are interested in innovative approaches and measures which have proven to be particularly effective – this might be a notable Compliance communication campaign, a sophisticated KPI measurement model or a difficult internal change management project.

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Apply for the Award

If you have implemented an innovative campaign within the compliance area in your organization, we want to hear from you!

Criteria for the submission of a project:

  • Candidates can be corporations or non-profits (NGOs, associations, etc.)
  • The project must have been started within the last two years.
  • The nominated project should have a clear reference to Ethics & Compliance or adjacent areas of responsibility (e.g. legal, internal audit, risk management, ESG)
  • If you are submitting the project on behalf of another person, he/she must have agreed to the sharing of his/her data.
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Our Process

Once our team reviewed all the applications, the expert panel of jury chose three projects to compete in the final round. These three finalists presented their projects live on the ECEC floor, after which the audience voted for the winner.

The expert jury based their decisions on the following criteria:

  • Ethical: how ethical is the idea?
  • Exceptionality: how exceptional is the idea?
  • Impact: what impact has the idea had?
  • Innovation:  is this an innovative idea?
  • Inspirational:  would the idea inspire our Ethics & Compliance community?  
  • Scalability: how replicable is the idea in other locations?
  • Sustainability: how sustainable is the idea?

Previous Winners

2022
French start-up Cuidam’s whistleblowing app designed for companies allows workers to report any unsuitable behaviour and thereby operate in an abuse-free workplace.
2021
French start-up Cuidam’s whistleblowing app designed for companies allows workers to report any unsuitable behaviour and thereby operate in an abuse-free workplace.
2020
La Poste Group received the award in recognition of two of the postal service’s compliance projects – the Ethics Barometer, an annual survey that examines the ethical climate within French companies, and the MyEtic App, an app designed to increase the visibility of the group’s compliance program, raise awareness of ethics and compliance issues whilst also preventing corruption.