Short Description:
Calling all photography enthusiasts! The European Environment Agency (EEA) invites you to tell the story of your connection to the environment and showcase your photographic talent in the 2025 edition of our annual photo competition.
This year’s competition “Environment&Me” provides a unique opportunity to showcase your take on our planet’s journey toward a sustainable future. We face unprecedented environmental challenges that have been shaping the world we live in. From the visible impacts of climate change—such as rising temperatures and extreme weather — to biodiversity loss, pollution, waste, and resource scarcity, these issues touch our everyday lives.
Through your lens, reflect on how these challenges impact and shape the world around you.
- How do environmental challenges impact your daily life?
- What signs of positive change or action give you hope?
- Where can we see progress towards sustainability and where do we need to do better?
Whether you capture breathtaking landscapes, stark reminders of environmental degradation, moments of innovative transformation, or the small yet powerful actions taken by individuals, your photos will help tell the story of our shared future.
Submission Requirements:
Select your best shots (maximum 5) and submit them via our online form under one or more categories before 30 May 2025. We welcome close-up pictures, bird’s-eye views or eye-level shots.
Selection process
30-50 finalists and 5 winners
- The best photographs in each category will be selected by a pre-selection committee consisting of communication and environment experts designated by the EEA.
- Finalist photos will then be submitted to an external jury composed of environmental communication experts from across Europe. The jury will determine the winners of all prizes except for the Public Choice Award.
- For the Public Choice Award, the finalist entries selected by the pre-selection committee will be open to a public vote from 1 July to 15 July 2025.
- The winners of all prizes will be announced on 25 July 2025.
Eligibility:
The competition is open to the citizens of the EU 27 Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Türkiye; under the stabilisation and association agreements: North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The photos must be taken in the countries mentioned above.
All participants must be 18 or older.
You must have full copyrights to the submitted material.
Photos should comply with the manipulation rules set out in the Terms and Conditions .
You may submit maximum 5 entries in the competition. Each entry will be handled separately so you need to fill out a new submission form for each entry.
Program Benefits or Awards:
• Best photo in each of the three categories: 1,000 €
• Public Choice award: 500 €
• Youth Prize (18-24 years old): 500 €
Entry Fee:
None
Location:
Denmark
Deadline:
30 May 2025
Website link:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/photo-competitions/environment_and_me_2025
Apply link
https://europeanenvironmentagency.wufoo.com/forms/environmentme
