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Every year thousands of international participants from government, politics, civil society and other change-making organisations join the Creative Bureaucracy Festival and celebrate outstanding examples of innovative public administrations. The year starts with the festival’s Digital Kick-Off Day in March. The next live festival will take place from 13–15 June 2024 in Berlin.
27.06.2023
Couldn’t join us in Berlin, or missed some of the talks on our mainstage? The entire German and English speaking programme of the mainstage is now available on our YouTube channel for you to watch and share.
23.06.2023
What a fantastic day we had! Once again you managed to far exceed our expectations. Thank you to everyone who was there with us last Thursday and to everyone who contributed to the inspiring programme and experience of the 6th Creative Bureaucracy Festival. Let’s recap! We welcomed more than 1,300 participants onsite in Berlin as…
22.06.2023
How can we scale our collective ability to shape better places for us all to live, work and exist in harmony with each other and nature? In a joint publication with the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt’s RISE Cities program we invited four sets of guest authors involved in this year’s Creative Bureaucracy Festival to share…
05.06.2023
Once again, we are immensely proud to recognise exceptional people and projects that are making a real difference in the public sector and improving people’s lives. The Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award honours innovators within or associated with the public sector. This year, for the first time, we will be presenting awards in five categories to…
01.06.2023
The Young Faces – Young Spaces Award will be presented at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2023 for the second time, and for the first time with a European focus. This special award honours the creative involvement of young people in the design of public spaces. The award will take place during the Closing Session (18:00-19:00 CEST)…
04.05.2023
We’re finally here: the brand new programme of the 6th edition of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival is now live. See all speakers, sessions and formats that will shape our festival and make it louder, bolder, and more inspiring than ever! Discover the dynamics behind a bureaucracy of “impact, trust, futures, networks, unlearning, action, justice, and…
05.04.2023
Every year over 1,000 international participants striving for the common good – from government, politics, civil society and beyond – join us to share and celebrate outstanding examples of innovative public administrations. Be one of them! When? The festival takes place on 15 June 2023 in Berlin. We start off with our grand opening…
28.03.2023
The Digital Kick-Off Day was pure joy and you can now watch all sessions online! Thank you to every project, session speaker and guest in front of the camera and thank you to all partners, jury members and organisers for bringing the day to life with us! Last but not least, thank you to every…
24.03.2023
We saw dancing fruits, police stations that are now community centres, a container in a market place that houses the local administration, we learned how lawmaking can work in the digital world and much more! 40 sessions with over 100 speakers from 20 countries – it was a great pleasure to bring this day to…
23.03.2023
Thank you for this great start to the festival season! Thanks to everyone in front of and behind the screens, to all our partners & to the best team there is! The creative bureaucracy community has once again shown that innovation in the public sector is no exception – so many inspiring projects were presented today…
17.03.2023
Now it’s your turn! From now until the end of our programme on 23 March the Digital Kick-Off Day community voting is open. Which of the topics or projects catch your attention the most? Which entry do you find the most interesting, relevant, engaging or forward-thinking within the world of creative bureaucracy? Browse the programme, be there…
23.02.2023
Only one month left until the Digital Kick-Off Day on 23 March 2023, 9:00 – 17:00 (CET)! The complete programme is now online. To join us and many brilliant creative voices online, make sure you register in advance through our Eventbrite page. You will receive a confirmation to save the date in your calendar and…
14.02.2023
Are you ready for a new year of public sector innovation with us? It’s time to get started! Register now for free for the first of our core activities this year, the Digital Kick-Off Day on 23 March, 9:00 – 17:00 (CET). Discover 40 digital sessions in German and English from around the world with additional…
20.12.2022
“Public administrations can be flexible, proactive, and innovative. YES – they also employ people who are open and ready to listen to us, as long as we find the right approach to them,” representatives of the administration, business, and civil society organizations united around this opinion during the “Partnership for Creative Bureaucracy” forum on 16…
13.12.2022
On 1 December 2022 the fourth and final of this year’s four online workshops from our new Digital Workshop Series took place. The event was moderated by Jakob Hafele, co-founder of workshop host ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies. The climate and biodiversity crisis, together with growing social polarisation, have made increasingly clear that people are…
01.12.2022
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival Jury 2023 is here! 16 remarkable and inspiring figures who are shaking and shaping the public administration world. We will strive harder than ever to develop a festival programme that empowers the imagination, questions the established, and features bold projects for the common good. With the support of our Jury, we…
18.11.2022
“Let’s Create an Economy for People and the Planet Together!” – We invite you to the 4th workshop in our Digital Workshop Series. Be quick and don’t miss your chance to secure one of the limited spots for the final creative exchange of this year.
19.10.2022
In the past years we’ve learned about the importance of transdisciplinary exchange between science and other sectors such as business, politics, the media and society for collectively creating solutions for the big challenges of our time – the pandemic, AI ethics, education and the climate crisis to name just a few.This week we are excited…
14.10.2022
We just shared the insightful takeaways from our last workshop: “Assessing Dynamic Capabilities of Public Institutions” and encourage you to have a look at the upcoming 3rd workshop from our Digital Workshop Series hosted by our festival partner PD: “Data-Driven Policy-Making” on 3 November 2022.
13.10.2022
On 6 October 2022 the second of this year’s four online workshops from our new Digital Workshop Series took place. The event was hosted by our partners UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL IIPP), PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand (PD) and the European Commission and explored the topic: “Assessing Dynamic Capabilities of Public Institutions”.…
10.10.2022
Mutual trust, innovative solutions and collective action towards strengthening our democracies is more important than ever before. Today we are calling all public sector innovators to tell us about their contribution to securing thriving possible futures! The Creative Bureaucracy Festival’s global Call for Participation is now open. We are looking for your groundbreaking ideas and…
16.09.2022
We want to continue exploring and in many cases rethinking the principles, processes, and practices of our public institutions with you! Join us for the second of our four online workshops in this year’s Digital Workshop Series. This time our partner hosts will dig deeper into finding out how we can recognise and enhance dynamic…
13.09.2022
On 1 September 2022 the first of this year’s four online workshops from our new Digital Workshop Series took place. The event was hosted by our partner GPM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V) and explored the topic: “Trends in Project Management – What Moves Us in the Age of Projects?” with Prof. Dr. Silke Schönert, Professor of…
31.08.2022
We love discovering specific topics within the creative bureaucracy world with you throughout the year. And on that note, we are delighted to be joining in-depth discussions at this year’s Falling Walls Science Summit and the Berlin Science Week for the first time with a deep-dive entitled Creative Bureaucracy Festival Meets Science.
15.08.2022
You asked, we listened. We want to offer you more room for deeper exchange and opportunities to connect with fellow public problem solvers beyond our yearly live festival. The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is extending its yearly events with the new Digital Workshop Series in 2022. The series starts with four partner-run workshops that deep dive into creative bureaucracy…
12.07.2022
At this year’s Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin, the conversation revolved around the need for radical and structural change. CO-PI (The Danish National Centre for Public-Private Sector Innovation) joined to share their Danish innovation knowledge, and here they share their most important insights from the day. The original Danish version of the article can be…
06.07.2022
After two years of the pandemic, we were incredibly excited to bring back the Creative Bureaucracy Festival as a physical event. And what we experienced on 2 June 2022 far exceeded our expectations. Over 1,000 participants from administration, politics and society came to discuss successful innovations in the public sector and celebrate administrative talent from…
15.06.2022
After a two-year pandemic, the festival brought together over 1,000 international participants as a face-to-face event. Charles Landry, the festival president, sees this as the strength of the format: “The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is a place where administrative talents from around the world learn from and inspire each other.” The next Creative Bureaucracy Festival will…
03.06.2022
What a day!!! We are absolutely thrilled about the great response, the festival atmosphere and above all: the inspiring talks and impulses, workshops and bowls. THAT WAS GREAT! Let’s do it again: 15 June 2023. Thank you to everyone who participated today and especially to all our partners who contributed to the inspiring programme and…
01.06.2022
Are you ready for Thursday? Go through our festival checklist, tick the boxes and download our programme overview below to make sure you’ve got your Creative Bureaucracy Festival experience covered. We have some limited remaining tickets left – bring a friend and use the code: Friend@CBF2022 in our ticketshop. Join us from 8am (CEST) at…
