On Monday, 16 June at 9 a.m., Mayor Knut Kunze and members of the jury will award the winner of this year's Chemnitz Environmental Prize for Children and Young People in the primary school category: the Erich Kästner Support Centre in Aue/Bad Schlema, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 24.
Representatives of the media are invited to attend.
In total, more than 400 children and young people took part in this year's environmental education campaign organised by the City of Chemnitz Environmental Agency. From 35 submitted projects, the jury selected the three first places in the categories day care centre, primary school, class 5 to 8, class 9 to 12 and young people up to the age of 20.
To mark the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, children and young people from the Capital of Culture region were also able to take part this year. The participants will be honoured for their commitment in the last two weeks before the summer holidays.
Carina Kühnel, Head of the Environmental Office of the City of Chemnitz: "The response to the Chemnitz Environmental Award from the Capital of Culture Region makes me particularly proud. It shows that environmental protection is also an important issue beyond the borders of Chemnitz and that our environmental award, which was established in 1991, can play its part in protecting the environment. I would especially like to thank the initiators, teachers, educators and parents who accompanied their children in the creation of the projects."
The following entries won one of the top three places this year:
| Category | Submitter | Project | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day care centre | Caritas Kindergarten Schatzkiste | A garden for children | 1. |
| Integrative kindergarten Goethehaus | Our butterfly meadow - created and grown like us | 2. | |
| Rabennest daycare centre | Environmental protection, sustainability and waste | 3. | |
| Primary school | Erich Kästner Aue support centre | We do good for insects | 1. |
| Sonnenberg Primary School | The worm box - little helpers in the classroom for a greener world | 2. | |
| gruuna Schule gGmbH | Kids & plants | 3. | |
| Class 5 to 8 | Burgstädt grammar school | "On the way" - project series for the ecological upgrading of the school route | 1. |
| Lower Luisen School | Environmental protection and democracy | 2. | |
| Terra Nova Campus - The discovery school | The development of a project in the school action area - the elective course "Pupils get active" | 3. | |
| Grades 9 to 12 and young people up to 20 years | Nick Peukert | The influence of different roof coverings on the thermal behaviour of buildings | 1. |
| Bethanien training centre for healthcare professions | Building nesting boxes to preserve biodiversity | 2. | |
| Saxon Social Academy Chemnitz | The somewhat different cookbook - as colourful as the world as we like it | 3. |
You can find more information about the environmental award at www.chemnitz.de/umweltpreis