Klever Birne
Sustainability award
The winner teams of the Klever Birne 2025 are chosen!
Behind the name 'Klever Birne' is an ideas competition launched by the city of Kleve together with Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.
The winners
- Place: 10qm Nachbarschaft
- Place: SoLaWi Kleve e. V.
- Place: Sanjha - Sharing Hub
Public voting: Tiny edible forests
Application requirements
You can apply if your idea meets the following criteria:
- The idea represents a solution to the challenge "Share, swap, borrow, rent, give - How can we share resources and promote sustainability in the community"?
- It deals with at least one of the 17 sustainability goals
- It can be implemented in Kleve
- It is actively planned or has already been realized
- It will be further developed with the prize money
Citizens, private groups, students, educational institutions, public institutions (schools, kindergartens, libraries, etc.), companies, associations, start-ups and institutions that see themselves as shaping the future in terms of sustainability can apply.
Ideas that have already won an Klever Birne Award are excluded from participation.
Application procedure
The next application phase for the Klever Birne 2026 will start in May 2026.
Prizes
1st prize: €2,000 + coaching + certificate
2nd prize : €1,500 + coaching + certificate
3rd prize : €1,000 + coaching + certificate
Student prize : €1,000 + coaching + certificate
Audience prize: gift basket + coaching + certificate
Aim of the sustainability award
The project partners City of Kleve and Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences are committed to the topic of sustainability as a form of ecological, social and economic action and announced a sustainability award in Kleve for the first time in 2023.
The Klever Birne Sustainability Award is intended to raise awareness of sustainability goals at a global and local level. It is also intended to draw attention to the project "TransRegINT - Transformation of the Lower Rhine Region - Innovation, Sustainability, Participation" at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and the municipal sustainable measures of the city of Kleve.
The aim is to develop new ideas for sustainable measures together with the people of Kleve.
More information on www.kleverbirne.de
