The winners of the EU 2025 Prize for Citizen Science have been announced

Yesterday, 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 neighborhood 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 - Mo FWaste 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. Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, said:“Across Europe, citizens are stepping up to collect data, ask questions, and help solve real-world problems. The winners of this year’s EU Prize for Citizen Science show that science can thrive when everyone – including groups that are often less heard – gets involved.”The Prize is awarded by the Horizon Europe...