The Nature and Environment Prize, worth DKK 350,000, will be awarded for the fifteenth time this year.  The prize will be awarded to a Nordic enterprise, organisation, individual or group which has managed in an exemplary way to encourage people to be more active in the countryside, and has created an increased understanding of the importance of the countryside in general, for physical as well as for mental health.

Most of the nominations, as many as 35, come from Sweden. Ten of the candidates come from Finland, eight from Iceland, seven from Denmark, and one each from Norway and Åland. Two of the candidates are in practice pan-Nordic – the Nordic delegation for the European network Cost Action E39 and the Nordic scout organizations. There are no nominations from Greenland and the Faroe Islands this year.

A handful of the candidates will go forward this autumn to the second round. The Environment Prize Adjudication Committee will make its decision and announce the winner at its meeting at the beginning of October. The actual prize will be awarded during the Nordic Council’s Session in Stockholm at the end of October.

The Nature and Environment Prize is one of the Nordic Council’s four prizes - the three other prizes are awarded for literature, film and music. Last year's environment prize was awarded to the Icelandic company Marorka.

Further information on the Nature and Environment Prize