This year’s Excellence in Practice Award has seen one of the most diverse batches of applications since its start. Cases from Western Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa, India, South-East Asia, China, Australia, US and Canada involving companies, (inter)governmental and social profit organisations and networks. With supplying business schools and alternative providers of growing diversity (communications experts to be noted) in multi-partner projects (14% multi-authored and probably a similar number multi-partnered in the remaining dual-authored applications). And including sometimes very ambitious projects of which this year quite some ethical, community, CSR projects.