YRE Over the Years
The Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) programme gives young people a platform to research environmental issues and promote solutions through investigative reporting, photography, and video journalism.
When the project was experimentally absorbed by what was then the Foundation for the Environmental Education in Europe (FEEE) (today's FEE), the last step to create Young Reporters for the Environment had finally been taken. In 1994, Luxembourg would become the first country to officially implement the YRE programme. It was no longer an experiment.
Take a stroll down memory lane to see how our programme has spotlighted youth environmental voices over the years.
2026
2025
1st Place Winners of YRE Article Category, Slovakia.
A Living Wall for Clean Air
1st Place Twinning Category Winners: Turkey, Germany Spain, Slovenia.
HITTING THE BREAKS ON FOSSIL FUELS
2024
1st Place Winners of YRE Article Category, Sri Lanka.
Young Geckos Cleaning the Streets for a Clearer Future
1st Place Winners of YRE International Collaboration Article; Turkey & Slovenia.
RED ALERT: LIONFISH!
2023
1st Place - Single Photo Reportage, 11-25 years old, Mexico.
THE NORTHERN DROUGHT
1st Place - Single Photo Campaign, 11-25 years old, Iceland.
WE DON’T CARE, DO YOU?
2022
2nd Place - Photo reportage of 3-5 photos, 11-25 years old, Portugal.
Past Fires Warn the Future: Climate Change, Loss of Biodiversity.
Single Photo Reportage, 11- 25 years old, Montenegro.
Terrifying Light: Pollution, Loss of Biodiversity.
1st Place - Photo reportage of 3-5 photos, 11-25 years old, Slovakia.
FROG TAXI: Loss of Biodiversity
2021
1st Place, Photo Campaign, 11 -25 years old, Canada.
Our world is slipping down the drain.
1st Place, Photo Reportage of 3 -5 photos, 11 -25 years old, Ghana.
The waste collecting woman who is no waste.
2020
Wales Scouts Interviewing Hannah Blythyn Minster of Environemt, 2020
YRE South Africa, 2020.
2019
WEEC 2019
Youth Mundus 2019
UNESCO, Thailand 2019
2018
YRE at UNESCO Youth Forum, 2018
UNDP Leadership Symposium Thailand, 2018
UNESCO Paris, 2018
2017
YRE Scotland, 2017
2016
YRE at COP22 in Marrakech, 2016
YRE Portugal at Rock in Rio, 2016
2015
Young Reporters for the Environment at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta, 2015. YRE Malta
Litter Less Campaign - workshop for winners, YRE Slovakia, 2017
Neoplanète media at Solutions COP21 on 10 December 2015, Yolaine de la Bigne, on the left, is a journalist specialised in the SD field and the godmother for YRE this year. YRE France
2014
YRE Portugal, 2014
YRE International Jury, 2014
2013
YRE Northern Ireland, 2013
2012
FEE YRE Northern Ireland, 2012
