The Chamber of Labour and the ÖGB Climate Office awarded the prize for the first time for economic transformation with a focus on science communication
The large number of submissions showed that the question posed by our Transformation Prize struck a chord. And it was a great pleasure for me to be able to bring some particularly successful projects to the fore
AK Director Silvia Hruška-Frank
Vienna (OTS) – In order to develop the economy and society towards a green and digital future, secure employment and prosperity and also achieve climate neutrality, we must change our economic structures. This is not an easy task, neither in terms of communication nor in implementation.
For this reason, the Vienna Chamber of Labor, together with the Climate Office of the ÖGB, awarded the “AK/ÖGB Transformation Prize” for the first time. Prizes were awarded to contributions that dealt with the low-threshold communication of employment policy, spatial and economic structural dimensions of the transformation as well as with questions of justice in socio-ecological change.
The award winners were honored today during a ceremony: „The large number of submissions showed that the question posed by our Transformation Prize struck a chord. And it was a great pleasure for me to be able to bring some particularly successful projects to the fore“
emphasised AK Director Silvia Hruška-Frank.
„We are delighted to be able to award the first AK/ÖGB Transformation Prize to outstanding projects in the communication of the green transformation. The projects stood out due to their high educational, innovative and journalistic quality.“, explained Martin Reiter, head of the ÖGB climate office.
The main prize winners
The main prizes went to two projects that have fulfilled their educational mandate to a high degree. The first project is “World Climate Game”, an interactive three-day simulation game for schoolchildren. The second main prize went to the Upper Austria Climate Alliance’s apprentice project “Climate Checkers@work”: apprentices receive comprehensive training on all aspects of climate protection and can implement their own projects in their companies.
The Recognition Awards
The Austrian Energy Agency’s podcast “Petajoule” and the Falter’s climate magazine were awarded recognition prizes for their exceptional contributions to journalistic reporting on transformation issues.
To the expert jury
A high-caliber jury of experts had the difficult task of selecting the winners from a large number of submissions. The jury included: Daniel Huppmann, IIASA; Claudia Michl, CCCA; Katharina Kropshofer, Climate Journalism Network; Andreas Novy, WU Vienna; Martin Reiter, ÖGB Climate Office and Christa Schlager, Vienna Chamber of Labor.
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