The Chamber of Labor and the ÖGB Climate Office awarded the prize for economic transformation with a focus on science communication for the first time
The large number of submissions showed that the question posed by our Transformation Prize touched a nerve. And it was a great pleasure for me to be able to showcase some particularly successful projects
AK Director Silvia Hruška-Frank
Vienna (OTS) – In order to further 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. Not an easy task, neither in communication nor in implementation.
For this reason, the Vienna Chamber of Labor, together with the ÖGB Climate Office, awarded the “AK/ÖGB Transformation Prize” for the first time. Prizes were awarded for contributions that dealt with the low-threshold communication of employment policy, spatial and economic structural dimensions of transformation as well as questions of justice in socio-ecological change.
The award winners were honored today at a ceremony: „The large number of submissions showed that the question posed by our Transformation Prize touched a nerve. And it was a great pleasure for me to be able to showcase some particularly successful projects“
emphasized AK director Silvia Hruška-Frank.
„We are pleased to be able to honor outstanding projects in the communication of green transformation with the first AK/ÖGB Transformation Prize. The projects stood out for their high educational, innovative and journalistic quality“, explained Martin Reiter, head of the ÖGB climate offices.
The main prize winners
The main prizes went to two projects that fulfilled their educational mission to a high degree. The first project is “World Climate Game”, an interactive three-day simulation game for students. The second main prize went to the Upper Austria Climate Alliance’s apprenticeship project “Klimachecker:innen@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 climate magazine were awarded recognition prizes for their exceptional contributions to journalistic reporting on transformation issues.
To the expert jury
A top-class jury of experts had the difficult task of selecting the prize winners from a large number of submissions. Part of the expert jury were: 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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