Show us how your community is becoming greener across the Mediterranean.

The Green Living Areas Through Your Lens – Photo Awards 2026 are officially open!

Organised by the Interreg Euro-MED Green Living Areas Mission through its Community4LivingAreas (C4LA) governance project, the Photo Awards invite citizens and partners of the Green Living Areas Mission Thematic Projects to capture and share inspiring stories of positive change taking place across the Mediterranean.

Across our cities, towns, islands and rural areas, communities are implementing innovative solutions that make territories greener, healthier and more resilient. Through the Green Living Areas Through Your Lens – Photo Awards 2026, we want to celebrate these transformations and give visibility to the people, places and initiatives driving the ecosystemic transition across the Mediterranean.

Four themes reflecting the ETU Initiative’s priorities

Participants are invited to submit photographs under one of four categories reflecting the main themes addressed by the ETU Initiative, the Green Living Areas Mission’s platform supporting local and regional authorities in accelerating the ecosystemic transition.

🌿 Better Places, Better Lives
Show how public spaces and community initiatives are improving quality of life.

🚶 Moving Differently
Capture sustainable mobility solutions that make communities cleaner, safer and more connected.

☀️ Powering a Sustainable Future
Highlight clean energy, efficient buildings and innovative solutions supporting the energy transition.

🌳 Nature at the Heart of Our Communities
Show how biodiversity and nature-based solutions are making territories more resilient and enjoyable places to live.

Open to projects and citizens

The competition welcomes two participant groups:

• Partners of the Green Living Areas Mission Thematic Projects, who can showcase their project activities, pilot actions and results.
• Citizens aged 18 and over, who wish to share their own perspective on greener living areas.

Each participant may submit up to three photographs, accompanied by a short description explaining the story behind each image.

Photographs will be assessed by an independent jury based on their relevance to the selected category, their visual and creative quality, and the strength of the story conveyed through both the image and its accompanying description.

Awards

🏆 Overall Grand Prize
The best photograph across all categories and participant groups will receive a digital photo frame.

🏅 Category Awards
Eight additional winners (one Project and one Citizen for each category) will receive a selfie stick with integrated light.

To encourage broad participation, each participant may receive only one award.

Key dates

📅 Submission deadline: 16 September 2026

🏆 Winners announced: 30 October 2026

📍 Winning photographs showcased at the Interreg Euro-MED Mid-Term Event, Marseille (France), 25–26 November 2026.

Take part!

The ETU Initiative brings together tested and transferable solutions that help territories accelerate the ecosystemic transition. Through the Photo Awards, we invite you to capture these solutions—and the positive changes they create in people’s everyday lives.

👉 Read the Call for Submissions and submit your photographs here.

We look forward to discovering the stories, people and solutions shaping greener living areas across the Mediterranean!