Millions of Europeans are already making a positive difference through their actions. The EEA citizen stories campaign ‘Our environment : Our future’ aims to recognise their efforts and inspire others to do the same to improve the environment. 

These actions can be as small as fixing a shirt, so it lasts longer, or bigger like organising local clean-up day in your community. They can be as ordinary as a new recipe to reduce your family’s food waste or as extraordinary as setting up a community garden, creating a wildflower patch in your backyard for pollinators or planting trees.

What we are looking for 

• Inspiring actions you personally took part in, which can be captured in a few sentences — between 500 and 1000 characters. 

• Each story should ideally describe a short observation of the issue which your actions aimed to address.  

• It should focus on the positive difference you made. It should include general references to a given location and other relevant information. 

Why participate 

A selection of stories submitted online will be used in the EEA’s communication activities to showcase the many positive actions Europeans are taking to improve our environment — and which are linked to our work here at the EEA.  

How to enter 

You can submit your story via our online form in any of the official languages of the EEA member countries or post it on your social media using #OurEnvironmentOurFutureEU before 30 September 2025.

Please carefully read our Campaign rules and Terms and Conditions before applying.