Environment&Me — EEA photo competition 2025

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. 

Why participate? Win exciting prizes and have your work featured in our publications and other communication activities.

How to enter? 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. Please carefully read our Competition rules and Terms and Conditions before applying.

Categories

Showcase your creativity as a photographer under these categories:

Blue

Green

Orange

The names of the competition categories are based on colours; however, submitted photographs do not need to explicitly depict the named colour. Entries should align with the theme and description provided for each category. Please click on the category images above for further details on the categories.

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.

Prizes

Eligibility criteria

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• 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 (article 14).

• 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.

• By submitting an entry, you will be presumed to have agreed to accept the Competition rules and the Terms and Conditions.

Participate

Submit your entry (max 5)

Entry is free of charge. Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance of the Competition rules and the Terms and Conditions.

The copyright of the photos submitted for this competition remains with the respective participants. However, each entrant grants the EEA and its partners the right to use the submitted photos in their digital and print material, crediting the copyright owners.