Winners
Winners of 2025 Award
The nine winning towns, cities and regions stand out in a strong field of shortlisted candidates for their contribution to a more equal and inclusive Europe. They have demonstrated creativity and commitment in implementing a breadth of initiatives to advance outcomes of equal inclusion for people across the diversity of age, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sex, disability, and LGBTIQ, and underpinning these with effective strategies, institutional structures and organisational systems.
The winners came from six EU countries and included Utrecht, Bilbao, Kraków, the Town of Mariehamn, Usurbil, Settimo Torinese, Braga, Gualdo Tadino and Zaragoza.
Learn more about their journey and their story below.
Winners 2025 - Videos
Less than 50 000 inhabitants
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🥇The Town of Mariehamn |
🥈Usurbil |
🥉Settimo Torinese |
More than 50.000 inhabitants
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🥇Utrecht |
🥈Bilbao |
🥉Kraków |
Specific Award – inclusive housing
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🥇Braga |
🥈Gualdo Tadino |
🥉Zaragoza |
Learn more from the previous gold winners
After receiving the gold award in 2025, these cities: Utrecht (NL), the Town of Mariehamn (FI) and Braga (PT) have been actively evolving their inclusion policies. How has the recognition impacted their approaches to diversity? What changes have they made over the past year? We invite you to read their stories in the articles below:
- Utrecht - Local authorities with more than 50,000 inhabitants
- The Town of Mariehamn - Local authorities with less than 50,000 inhabitants
- Braga - Special award for local authorities: inclusive housing
Looking for more inspiration? Do not hesitate to read about the 2024 gold winners:
- Zagreb - Local authorities with more than 50,000 inhabitants
- Corbetta - Local authorities with less than 50,000 inhabitants
- Ljubljana - Special award for local authorities that enable safe towns, cities and regions for women in all their diversity
In this Collection of best practices of previous shortlisted and winners of the Award, you can discover even more outstanding efforts and commitment of local authorities around the EU to promote equality, diversity and inclusion.