The first round of the Innovative Solutions Scheme was concluded with three winners to receive funding for their case-study projects:

1. National Anticorruption Centre (Moldova), Project: Integrity Testing Mechanism of Civil Servants;
2. Colin Knox, Professor of Ulster University (the United Kingdom), Project: Quality of Life Framework for Public Services in education;
3. Saltanat Akhmetzhanova, Director of Centre of Scientific Economic Expertise, JSC “Economic Research Institute”, Ministry of National Economy (Kazakhstan), Project: Improving the process of preparing professionally competent personnel for public administration through the development and implementation in the educational process of the new discipline of “Evaluation of socio-economic impact of normative legal acts”).