Prizes for Citizen Science 2025 awarded

The 2025 EU Prize for Citizen Science goes to three projects that are advancing disaster preparedness, reducing food waste and empowering Roma women’s emancipation

On 19 June 2025, the winners of the 2025 EU Prize for Citizen Science were announced. Out of the 409 applications, three citizen science initiatives received the main prizes and 27 were recognised with honorary mentions.

The winners are:

• The ‘Grand Prize’, worth €60,000, goes to the project HEROINES for the impressive inclusion of Roma women in the process of empowering their emancipation in Serbia, by developing a community mapping tool to gather rarely shared oral stories and co-produce knowledge difficult to obtain by other means.
• The Digital Communities prize, worth €20,000, is awarded to Antiquake Risk Hunter Community for involving a wide range of actors, including residents of a neighbourhood in Istanbul, to foster disaster preparedness by collecting geolocated data using open-source tools.
• The Diversity & Collaboration prize, worth €20,000, is given to Museum of Food Waste - MoFWaste for engaging with students, educators, and school canteen staff in Portugal and making children owners of the project to reduce and prevent food waste, with methods and activities easily replicable elsewhere.

he Prize is awarded by the Horizon Europe project IMPETUS, as part of its work to support and give recognition to citizen science. The winners were selected by an independent jury of five experts.

EC Press Release is here.