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Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards 2025: Shaping tomorrow together

Discover the winners and all the finalists of #ARIAwards25

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All ARIA 2025 finalists on stage with the European Commission's representatives during the ARIA Ceremony

Meet the ARIA 2025 winners!

What are the greenest, smartest, most socially inclusive, innovative and resilient Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) projects? Which initiatives sustain rural economies and actively involve young people in shaping the future of rural communities?

For the third consecutive year, the Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards (ARIA) highlighted projects through which CAP stakeholders are ‘shaping tomorrow together'.

Discover the winners Meet the finalists Watch their presentation videos

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Discover the winners

ARIA Awards - Icon - Smart competitive agriculture
A group of people gathers under a lush kiwi vine, engaged in discussion.
Project | 22 Oct 2025

Dimitra: the way forward for Lucanian farms

  • CAP Implementation
Agricultural Productivity, Generational Renewal (+3) Italy
Basilicata
ARIA Awards - Icon - Environmental protection
Cows resting under leafy trees in a sunlit pasture with a clear blue sky.
Project | 22 Oct 2025

Poultree – regenerative cattle and poultry farming

  • CAP Implementation
Economic impacts, Environmental Impacts (+3) Spain
Extremadura
ARIA Awards - Icon - Socio-economic fabric of rural areas
A person stands on a misty field holding a textured blanket, surrounded by grazing sheep.
Project | 22 Oct 2025

Mutur Beltz

  • CAP Implementation
Economic impacts, Fostering Knowledge & Innovation (+3) Spain
Basque Country
ARIA Awards - Icon - Generational Renewal
A group of people, including someone in a wheelchair, gather around a picnic table in a sunlit park with tall trees.
Project | 22 Oct 2025

Digital farm succession for gender-equal entrepreneurship

  • CAP Implementation
Fostering Knowledge & Innovation, Generational Renewal (+3) Sweden
ARIA Awards - Icon - Gender Equality
ARIA Awards - Icon - Socio-economic fabric of rural areas
A person in a blue suit enthusiastically gestures to a seated group holding handwritten signs. Emotions are positive, suggesting lively interaction.
Project | 22 Oct 2025

Changing Roles

  • CAP Implementation
Education, Jobs, Growth and Equality in Rural Areas (+4) Austria
Vorarlberg
ARIA Awards - Icon - popular vote
ARIA Awards - Icon - Smart competitive agriculture
Open yogurt container next to its lid on a textured cloth.
Project | 22 Oct 2025

Farma Rokou – yoghurt product from freeze-dried colostrum

  • CAP Implementation
Agricultural Productivity, Environmental Impacts (+3) Greece

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Discover the categories

ARIA Awards - Icon - Smart competitive agriculture

Smart & competitive agriculture

CAP-funded projects that contribute to a smart, competitive, resilient, and diversified agricultural sector, ensuring long-term food security.

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Environmental protection

CAP-funded projects that enhance environmental sustainability, address climate change, support biodiversity, and contribute to green recovery.

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Socio-economic fabric of rural areas

CAP-funded projects that strengthen the economic resilience of rural Europe, address social inclusion in innovative ways, support digitalisation in farming and empower rural entrepreneurs and businesses.

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Generational Renewal

CAP-funded projects that help ensure vibrant rural communities by engaging young people while developing their skills and creating high-quality rural jobs.

Resources and other media

Information from ARIA 2024

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Publications

EU Cap Network Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards – ARIA 2024
Brochures |

ARIA 2024 - Projects Brochure

Browse this Brochure to learn more about the inspiring projects selected as finalists in the competition and to see how the CAP is making a difference in European rural areas!

  • CAP Implementation
Networking, Generational Renewal (+3)
Projects Brochure - ARIA 2023
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ARIA 2023 - Projects Brochure

This Projects Brochure showcases the finalists and winners of the Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards (ARIA) 2023, the competition that celebrated inspiring and forward-looking projects that are building the future of rural Europe.

  • CAP Implementation
Climate and Climate Change, Jobs, Growth and Equality in Rural Areas (+2)
Owls nesting on a tree
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Roots in nature: local projects bringing hope and change

Discover how three finalists of the 2019 Rural Inspiration Awards in the Environment and Climate Action category have been gradually transforming rural landscapes, lives and livelihoods, for a lasting impact on communities and ecosystems alike.

  • CAP Implementation
Environment, Climate and Climate Change (+1)
Pop-up shop in rural Austria funded by the CAP (copyright: TSE GmbH)
Policy Insights |

Revitalising rural Europe: Success stories from the Rural Inspiration Awards 2019

From strengthening digital and societal connections to helping adapt to remote working, some of the finalists of the Rural Inspiration Awards 2019 are still breathing life into rural areas.

  • CAP Implementation
Digitalisation, Generational Renewal (+2)
The team of the Kyrö whisky distillery in Finland
Policy Insights |

Improving the competitiveness of rural businesses: lessons from the Rural Inspiration Awards 2019

Three winners of the Rural Inspiration Awards 2019 share how they have developed over the past five years, continued networking and contributed to making rural areas more resilient and competitive.

  • CAP Implementation
ARIA, Jobs, Growth and Equality in Rural Areas

Events

Award ceremony

ARIA 2025 Awards Ceremony

  • CAP Implementation
Calendar
Agricultural Productivity, Environment (+3) In-person
Brussels, Belgium
EU CAP Network
Award ceremony

ARIA 2024 Awards Ceremony

  • CAP Implementation
Calendar
Long-term Vision for Rural Areas, Environment (+2) In-person
Brussels, Belgium
EU CAP Network
Award ceremony

ARIA 2023 Awards Ceremony

  • CAP Implementation
Calendar
Agricultural Productivity, Climate and Climate Change (+3) In-person
Brussels, Belgium
CAP Implementation Contact Point