Registrations are now open for the CNJ Category of the 22nd edition of the Innovare Award, in 2025. The theme of this year is Racial Equity and the Fight against Racism. Registrations for this category must be submitted by May 2nd.
To take part in the CNJ Category, the practices must be entered by courts and magistrates directly on the CNJ Portal for Good Practices in the Judiciary under the axis “Racial Equity”.
The work will then be evaluated by the Plenary of the National Council of Justice. After approval, the selected practices will be considered by the Innovare Award Judging Committee. One of them will be chosen as the winner.
The official ceremony to launch the award will take place on March 25th at the headquarters of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), in the city of Brasília/DF.
For the other categories of the Innovare Award, the registration period will begin on March 26th. In the Court, Judge, Public Prosecution, Public Defender's Office, Advocacy and Justice and Citizenship categories, applications must be made exclusively through the website of the Innovare Award.
After completing a registration form and creating a password, the candidate must answer a form with questions specially prepared to describe the practices, their benefits, motivation and main achievements. Then, if approved for participation, the practices will be visited by specialized consultants to confirm the data provided in the registration forms.
In the final phase, the works are analyzed by the Judging Committee, which will choose one practice for the Outstanding Award, with the theme on Technology and Efficiency of Justice; one winning practice in the CNJ Category and two finalist practices in each of the other six categories.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in December.
Winning good practices in the CNJ category
The CNJ Category was created for the Innovare Award in the 2020 edition. Here are some of the good practices that have already won awards in this category:
17th Innovare Award - 2020 – Theme on Judicial Management: BI/eCorrection, from the TRT-5 - The practice uses BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE methodologies and tools to identify where the bottlenecks are in daily work, thus indicating ways to eliminate these problems and improve service management.
18th Innovare Award - 2021 – Theme on Technology - The Sigma Project - Ranking of judicial act models based on procedural documents, from the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3), was the winning initiative. The system facilitates the production of drafts, eliminates repetitive tasks and provides qualified inputs for writing, increasing productivity and the quality of judicial provision.
19th Innovare Award - 2022 - Theme on Innovation and Access to Justice - Digital Forum, by the Court of Justice of the state of Rondônia - The practice facilitates access for people living in communities and places that are difficult to reach. The Digital Forums offer judicial services to the population electronically and remotely, in partnership with city halls, institutions of the Judiciary and the public.
20th Innovare Award - 2023 - Theme on Combating harassment and discrimination – Campaign on LGBTphobia is not an opinion: it's a crime - The work, developed by the Court of Justice of the state of Maranhão (TJMA), proposes strategic objectives, actions, targets and indicators for improvement and equality aimed at the LGBTQIA+ public.
21st Innovare Award - 2024 - Theme on Sustainability and the Environment - Harvesting Seeds, Building Nurseries, Planting Forests - The practice created by the Court of Justice of the state of Rondônia.
Innovare award
The Innovare Award is one of the most highly regarded awards in the Brazilian justice. Its aim is to recognize and disseminate transformative practices that are being developed in the justice system of Brazil, regardless of legislative changes. The Award is run by the Innovare Institute, in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Attorney General's Office, legal associations and the National Council of Justice (CNJ), with the support of Globo.
Created in 2004, the Innovare Award is in its 22nd edition in 2025. In all, 298 initiatives have been awarded prizes and honorable mentions since 2004. Many of them have already become public policies.
The National Council of Justice (CNJ), the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, through the National Secretariat of Justice, the Association of Brazilian Magistrates (AMB), the National Association of Members of the Public Prosecution (Conamp), the National Association of Public Defenders (Anadep), the Association of Federal Judges of Brazil (Ajufe), the Federal Council of the Brazilian Bar Association (BAR), the National Association of Prosecutors of the Republic (ANPR), and the National Association of Magistrates of Labor Justice (Anamatra) are partners in the award.
