• We received the second prize in the category ‘Sustainable Territories: recognition of initiatives aimed at ensuring a rural environment with equal rights and opportunities’ at the ceremony held in Madrid.

The project ‘L’Olivera, 50 years tenacious and standing’ has been recognized by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption, and Agenda 2030 through the ‘Activists for the Future’ awards, which aim to “stimulate and acknowledge the trajectory, dedication, and contribution of initiatives and practices from social, academic, and social economy entities towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in Spain and the world”.

Registration for these awards is through nominations submitted by third parties. In this case, it was the ALLEM Federation of Lleida that supported L’Olivera, which won the second award in the category ‘Sustainable Territories: recognition of initiatives aimed at ensuring a rural environment with equal rights and opportunities’.

Joan-Ramon Saura, president of the ALLEM Federation, accompanied the representation of L’Olivera at the award ceremony, which took place at the ministry’s headquarters in Madrid. During the event, it was highlighted that these awards respond to the General Directorate, the Ministry, and the Government’s intention to “recognize projects that cause positive and tangible impacts in their environment” and the “importance of multilateralism and networking as intrinsic elements in all the awarded proposals, as well as values to promote and spread in the current socio-political context”.

“This award is a recognition of the trajectory of a project and all the people who have made it possible from the beginning, and at the same time, a motivation to keep projecting L’Olivera into the future,” explained Mª Dolors Llonch, president of L’Olivera.

The first prize was for the Galician project RE-MAR, by the Amicos Association, a collaborative project based on citizen science to strengthen collaboration between fishing sectors, local population, and visitors of the Galician islands, to define a local development model based on the conservation of the coastal and marine environment.