KOMBI has been nominated – and your vote counts

With its collaborative approach combining agriculture and nature conservation, KOMBI – represented by the model region of Brandenburg – has been nominated as the German submission for this year's European Union ARIA Awards 2025. You can now submit your vote and decide which project should receive the award.

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For the third consecutive year, the European Union's Agricultural and Rural Inspiration (ARIA) Awards 2025 are acknowledging projects that are particularly innovative, inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and multigenerational – following the motto “Shaping tomorrow together.” The KOMBI project (“Collective Models for the Promotion of Biodiversity”) has also been nominated for the award.

The collaborative approach starts right there: in Brandenburg, farms have joined forces and are working together to implement measures for biodiversity, climate protection, and landscape structure – for example, they are preserving peatlands and using new seed mixtures as an alternative to energy maize.

We are very pleased about this important step toward our shared vision of advancing agriculture and nature conservation together.