Los Life Awards recognize the most shocking projects implemented within the LIFE program. Since 1992, Life has financed thousands of projects focused on environmental protection and the action by the climate.
Los LIFE 2025 Awards were awarded by a jury of experts Among those who was Konstantinos Bakoyannis, president of the Environmental Commission, Climate Change and Energy (ENVA) of the European Committee of the Regions. Director and member of the International Resource Panel.
He jury praised the winners for environmental, economic and social improvements, both immediate and long term, of their projects. They recognized their innovation, their expansion potential and their relevance for the objectives of decarbonization, circularity and biodiversity of the EU.
Life Awards in Europe
The Italian project with Extremadura Desert-Adapt participation, That fights desertification and encourages the resilience of ecosystems in Spain, Italy and Portugal, was distinguished by the European Commission in the Life 2025 awards. The initiative seeks to rehearse a framework to respond to two of the most critical problems for farmers, public lands and communities of the Mediterranean basin: adaptation to climate change and the need to reduce and counteract the growing degradation of land and the risk of desertification.
DESERT-ADAPT, Coordinates the University of Studies of the Luigi Vanvitelli Campania but in which the University of Extremadura and the municipalities of Hoyos also participateValverde del Fresno and the Forestalis La Dehesa nurseries, the award was taken in the adaptation category.
In the awards ceremony, organized during the Green Week organized by the European Commission, the Community Executive He recognized in the category of protection of nature and biodiversity to the Life Lynx project in Slovenia. This initiative has managed to bring together conservationists, hunters and local communities to successfully reverse the decline of the Alpine lynx in the Dinarian Alps both in Slovenia and Croatia.
Regarding the segment of Circular economy and quality of life, the distinction fell on Life Popwat, which coordinates the Technical University of Liberec from the Czech Republic and that is committed to a new nature -based technology to eliminate hazardous chemicals of human origin in contaminated water in a cocks. Among the three finalists of that category was the Life Life Landscape Fire, which proposes a combination of traditional and modern fire prevention techniques to reduce large forest fires in Portugal and Spain.
Los Life Awards celebrate the most prominent projects of the LIFE program of the European Commission, which since 1992 has funded more than 6,000 initiatives focused on environmental protection and climatic action and has a budget of 5,400 million euros for the period 2021-2027. In the 2025 edition, the Community Executive introduced the special category «Emerging star recognition», for projects that make an outstanding contribution to the circular economy.
That new distinction fell on The Danish Life Re-Zip project, which seeks to replace thousands of tons of commercial containe. When the project ends in 2026, more than 120 million reusable containers are expected to be in circulation, saving 17,000 tons of cardboard and plastic waste and generating more than 300 jobs, the European Commission said. EFE / ECOticias.com