On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, the Vienna Health Promotion Conference and the awarding of the Vienna Health Prize in the Vienna City Hall were entirely in keeping with the annual focus of Vienna’s health promotion – WiG “Healthy Youth”. Peter Hacker, Vienna City Councilor for Social Affairs, Health and Sport, emphasized in the run-up to the conference: “Our task is to enable all young people in Vienna to grow up healthily. The city of Vienna with all its actors offers activities and an environment that support the promotion of young people’s resources.”
From the very beginning, Vienna Health Promotion – WiG has placed a special focus on the health of children and young people. In his welcome, Dennis Beck, Managing Director of Vienna Health Promotion – WiG, emphasized how important it is to meet young people on an equal footing and to include them. “The ultimate goal is for young people to be able to make their own healthy decisions in the long term. The various WiG projects, such as the ‘Youth Health Conference’ or ‘City Challenge’, are aimed at exactly this,” said Dennis Beck, who welcomed the participants of this year’s Vienna Health Promotion Conference together with local councilor Mag.a Andrea Mautz.
Inspiration for the practice of health promotion
Under the title “Healthy Youth. Inspirations for the practice of health promotion.” The conference was dedicated to current and very interesting questions: What makes young people tick today? How can relationship work work in the area of pedagogy and personal development? And how can young people be motivated to concern themselves with their own health and want to live a healthy life? The three top-class speakers Wiebke Jessen, Dirk Fiebelkorn and Michael May provided answers in their keynotes.
Wiebke Jessen, self-employed market researcher and speaker at the SINUS Academy in Heidelberg, gave an insight into how teenagers spend their everyday lives and what role health, sport and exercise play. Dirk Fiebelkorn, educator, coach and author, knows that both in pedagogy and privately, we always have to deal with challenging people and situations. In his lecture, he took a look at, among other things, why it is much more important how we are, not what we do, especially when it comes to relationships with young people. Michael May, educational scientist, professor of theory and methods of social work at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, reported in his lecture about the framework in which young people can experience-based ascertain what health means to them and how they want to live a healthy life: young people empower yourself in this way.
Vienna Health Prize 2024 with 12 winners
Following the Vienna Health Promotion Conference, the Vienna Health Prize 2024 was awarded by Peter Hacker, City Councilor for Social Affairs, Health and Sport, and Dennis Beck, Managing Director of Vienna Health Promotion – WiG. The award-winning projects and journalistic contributions show how health promotion is lived and promoted at different levels and by different actors and initiators in Vienna. The first-place winning projects are: “Saving food, eating healthy” in the “Healthy in Grätzel and District” category, “Healthy “Healthy Youth”.
A total of nine projects were awarded in three categories, with the winners in each category receiving 2,000 euros, the runners-up receiving 1,500 euros and the third-place winners receiving 1,000 euros. In addition, there were three equivalent media prizes for the year’s focus, each worth 500 euros.
All award winners at a glance:
Category: Healthy in Grätzel and district
- Prize: Save food, have a healthy snack
mojosa / Balu&Du – Association for the promotion of communication and play - Prize: Community Nurses – health promotion in the district
Vienna Social Fund; Care and support services - Price: Red box
Office of Women’s Health and Health Goals in MA 24
Category: Healthy in institutions and organizations
- Price: Healthy X3
City of Vienna – kindergartens, Rötzergasse 21 - Preis: LISTEN! – Living Interconnected Student Engagement
FH Campus Wien - Preis: accessible.fitness – Workouts beyond Limitation
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Department of Health
Category: HEALTHY YOUTH (annual focus 2024)
- Price: Jugendclub goes Jugendzentrum
Paulusgasse school center - Prize: Strong Girls*, Good Future
Volkshilfe Vienna - Price: Healthy through relationships
younus – Mentoring
Equivalent MEDIA PRICES for the annual focus
“Stories of Recovery: How to Cope with Mental Illness as a Teen”
Radio report by Miriam Steiner, broadcast on: Radio Ö1 / ORF
“Big burden on small shoulders”
Article by Naz Kücüktekin, published in: MO Magazine
“Illnesses affect the entire family system”
Article by Köksal Baltaci, published in: Die Presse
More information and the health award videos are available on the website on the pages Vienna Health Promotion Conference and that Vienna Health Prize. You can find more photos of the event and the award winners in our press corner.