LIFE Awards 2024

The LIFE Awards, an esteemed event hosted by the European Commission since 2006, celebrate and honour the most innovative, inspirational, and effective LIFE projects. The winners are selected by an expert jury and announced on the day of the ceremony, which takes place during the EU Green Week – Europe’s biggest environmental event.

The LIFE Citizens’ Prize allows you to vote for your preferred candidate. Discover the stories below and vote for your favourite LIFE project!

About 400 participants are expected to attend onsite and more will join online. 

LIFE Awards 2024 finalists

NATURE

• LIFE AQPOM: Conservation arrangements for Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia
• LIFE Flusserlebnis Isar: Restoration of the river Isar and its floodplains in the region of the lower Isar valley
• Life+ Nature Guardians: Improving environmental conservation by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of actions against environmental crime

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND QUALITY OF LIFE

• LIFE GreenShoes4All: Innovative environmental shoes to address the footwear industry’s excessive waste and CO2 emissions
• LIFE Planet Farms: Innovative air treatment, hydroponic irrigation and automated systems for the first industrial vertical farm in EU
• LIFE Waste2Protein: Pilot plant for insect protein production from biowaste as sustainable alternative to fish and soy meal for animal feed

CLIMATE ACTION 

• LIFE Ad’Apto: Ten initiatives of flexible coastal management
• LIFE TreeCheck: Green infrastructure minimising the urban heat island effect
• LIFE UrbanStorm: Development of sustainable and climate resilient urban storm water management systems for Nordic municipalities