20 years Green Footprints - Join in!: Results > Results 2025 > Austria
|  AustriaOnce again in 2025, Austria’s young climate protectors were hard at work, gathering their Klimameilen – Austria’s Green Footprints.
This year, 32,635 children from 266 educational institutions across Austria collected a total of 544,280 Green Footprints. |
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In Austria, it is a tradition to nominate the champion of the summer.
So in 2025 the students of the Volksschule Gerersdorf (Burgenland) were announced the Klimameilen-Sommersieger.
Over the course of one single week the school’s 29 pupils collected an impressive 400 Klimameilen (Green Footprints) by choosing climate-friendly ways to travel to school.
This achievement from a small primary school underlines the Klimameilen campaign’s core message: simple everyday choices add up and young people can lead the way.
The children and their teachers were honoured at an awards event in Vienna where Federal Minister Peter Hanke and Elke Kastner, Executive Director of Climate Alliance/ Klimabündnis Österreich, presented the school with a certificate and a trophy.
The Sommersieger were also invited to visit the zoo Tiergarten Schönbrunn as part of their prize.
Another tradition is to award last year’s overall Klimameilen Champion with a special reward: the fun performances of the climate clown.
So this is why in February 2025 the Primary School Schörfling in Upper Austria, where the 111 pupils collected amazing 1,721 Klimameilen in just one week, was personally visited by Clown Dudu as well Norbert Rainer, Managing Director of Klimabündnis Oberösterreich ,and presented them with a trophy and a certificate.
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Als in the primary school Großharras, the children eagerly collected their Klimameilen/Green Footprints.
After their Climate Action week on e of the teacher reported:
“We wanted to take care of our home, the Earth, together. Every morning, the children who walked, biked, or took the bus to school got to put a sticker on our poster. Step by step, we built a big `protective layer` around our planet. Now, our poster is proudly displayed in the entrance of our school for everyone to see!”
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Further information is available from our colleagues at Climate Alliance Austria at klimabuendnis.at.
