CIJ EUROPE, CEE & SEE Europe’s Real Estate digital and print news provider, will be organising the 1st Greece CIJ Awards competition The CIJ Awards are longest-running commercial property awards events in Central Europe and have evolved continuously over the past 25 years to keep pace with changes in local, regional and international property markets. This year we celebrate 30 years of CIJ EUROPE as a publisher, news provider and events organizer for the Commercial Real Estate industry.
Our goal is to support your business and networking activities. By winning a CIJ Award you become unique, and you share your success with other players in Greece, Europe and even the U.S. – everywhere CIJ is active today.
The winning entries in each project category will enjoy advancement to the Best of the Best HOF Awards in 2026 where only the winning elite is presented from 6 other countries from around Central & South East Europe.
We invite you to participate in this well-known event yet with its significantly broadened scope!
Since 2001, we’ve inspired you to celebrate your hard work and successes by competing for and winning Awards and by sharing your satisfaction with other market players and networking. We have created the perfect venue for you to meet your business partners, colleagues and friends.
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Read moreFill in your information on the form and be on your way to nominate your company and project in this years CIJ Awards 2025. You can expect to receive confirmation of the nomination within 2 working days of us receiving this Form.
One form means one nomination – if you have more companies and projects to nominate – please, fill in the appropriate number of forms. Nominating is without cost or obligation to attend the winners presentation.
The winners will be announced at the CIJ Awards Gala in May 2026 at Radisson Blu Hotel*****, Bucharest. If you are not there in person at the awards the names of the winners will be updated on the website shortly afterward and winner’s names will also be published in the following issue of CIJ EUROPE magazine.
Dress code for the event - formal/cocktail
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CEO - Sales & Events
CIJ EUROPE
fletcher@cijeurope.com
Sales & Events
CIJ EUROPE
Sales & Events Manager
carbunaru@cijeurope.com
Event Administration
CIJ EUROPE
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CIJ Awards 2025 Rules and Regulations
The following are the CIJ Awards Rules and Regulations
Eligibility for Nomination
The CIJ Awards recognizes and celebrates projects, companies, teams as well as transactions that excelled in performance. CIJ Awards 2025 is intended to honor the nominations with history between January 2025 and December 2025. Nominations will be judged on the value they bring to the real estate they fill, including consideration of the size, quality, design, value, time, term, company and team.
Hall of Fame (HOF Awards)
The winning entries in each category will enjoy advancement to the Best of the Best CIJ HOF Awards in May 2026 in Bucharest, Romania, where the winning elite from seven other Central & South East Europe countries is presented.
Administration
CIJ EUROPE, hereinafter referred to as CIJ Awards Administration Committee, shall organize and administer the CIJ Awards 2025, pursuant to the rules established by the CIJ Awards Administration Committee. The provisions of all paragraphs below set forth the valid rules of governance.
All decisions made by the CIJ Awards Administration Committee concerning eligibility for the CIJ Awards and all other matters relating to their administration, including adoption of amendments to these Rules, shall be final, binding and conclusive for all purposes.
Jury Committe
The Jury Committee members are invited by the CIJ Awards Administration Committee. The Jury Committee includes representatives of top management from the European Real Estate Market including professionals from Funds, Investors, Architects, Developers, property owners and service providers.
Jury Committee members will will evaluate only all relevant sector categories per group meeting.
Jury Committee members groups will include Residential, Development and Services.
Jury Committee members who are unable to attend the Jury Committee Meeting may designate a representative – a co-worker from their Company holding the position of President / Board Member / Managing Director. In case such a replacement is impossible – Jury Committee members will be allowed to vote by digital ballot.
The Jury Committee can include up to 32 members.
Jury Committee members cannot vote in categories that they are nominated in.
Possible company representation: one member of management from one company.
Jury Committee will meet location and date – TBC by the CIJ Awards Administration Committee.
All votes of the Jury Committee shall be taken by secret ballot, with only those members of the Committee entitled to vote.
The weighting of the Jury Committee voting is 100% of the final result.
The CIJ Awards Jury Committee shall be a self-governing body comprised of up to 3 groups of Jury Members.
Digital Jury Voting Committee vote independently.
Every Jury Member must choose a winning project, product or company in each category.
Jury Members may not vote in a category in which their project or company is nominated – they must abstain from voting in this category.
Being familiar with the sector, companies and projects, Jury Members are expected to vote both on the basis of their professional knowledge and experience as well as on the basis of the nomination forms.
Jury Committee will meet and discuss nominations, but the votes will be kept strictly confidential with each member recording their vote privately on secret voting ballots.
Votes from both Committees will be collected, compiled, counted and calculated by an independent audit company.
Votes and the precise results of the voting will be kept strictly confidential and secret.
Winners will be announced and awarded during the CIJ Gala Dinner and presented online at www.cijeurope.com and in the following issue of CIJ EUROPE magazine.
Nomination Procedures
Every company may nominate itself, its projects and teams or other companies, projects and teams.
Nominations must be submitted on time within the required dates.
Grand Prix Award is granted to one of the nominated projects from the Development category.
CIJ Awards Administration Committee will confirm acceptance of nomination within 2 working days of CIJ Awards Administration Committee receiving each application.
One company is entitled to make maximum of 5 nominations. Additional entries on request.
Rules for use of the CIJ Awards Trademarks
Each attending Winner will receive the CIJ Awards plaque/statue, diploma and electronic trademarks – they may be used without limitation. The Winner is obliged to use the description ‘The Winner of CIJ Awards 2025’ (including the awards name together with the year) wherever it mentions winning the CIJ Awards.
Additional Regulations
Companies can enter as many related categories as they wish to.
Projects submitted for the CIJ Awards must have all the mandatory government approvals. CIJ Awards Administration Committee reserves the right to ask for supplementary documentation of information provided in the application form.
There must be a minimum of two confirmed nominations in each category to proceed with Digital Jury Voting Committee and Jury Committee voting. If the CIJ Awards Administration Committee determines that there is only one eligible candidate in one of the categories listed above, the CIJ Awards Administration Committee has the right to award a special prize in that category.
The decisions of the Jury are final.
Personal information given on the forms will be placed in the company database of CIJ EUROPE and RPMG and may be used to organize trainings, courses, seminars, conferences and to carry out other marketing activities. Companies have the right to inspect and update this data.
The event will be documented by the organizer with photographs and video. Those taking part in the event accept that the organizer will publish the above-mentioned documentation on its websites and in printed materials via CIJ EUROPE, RPMG and their trading partners.
Penalties
Any party that violates these rules will be subject to removal of eligibility to vote in or nominate projects and/or to any other penalties as may be imposed by the CIJ Awards Administration Committee at its sole discretion.
If in the considered view of the CIJ Awards Administration Committee, any of the above provisions have been violated, the violation must be corrected within ten calendar days following written notice of the violation. Any violation not so corrected, in addition to any other rights or remedies available to CIJ Awards Administration Committee or its ventures, may result in the withdrawal of the right to use the CIJ Awards statue/plaque and CIJ Awards trademark, including, and not limited to a permanent ban on the use of the trademarks in the event of a serious or continued violation. Replication of CIJ Awards plaques or statues are forbidden and will be seen as an infringement on the CIJ Awards branding and brands.
Organiser
CIJ EUROPE – CEE & SEE Europe’s leading Real Estate news provider digitally and in print.
Contact Details
All notices, certifications and other communications required or permitted to be given to the CIJ Awards Administration Committee under these Rules shall be given in a manner consistent with these Rules to Robert Fletcher, fletcher@cijeurope.com
CIJ Awards Administration Committee contact persons:
Robert Fletcher: +48 506 074 042, fletcher@cijeurope.com
