Young European of the Year

Young European of the Year Award
Awarded for	Awarded to young Europeans who have distinguished themselves in an exemplary manner concerning their honorary commitment and dedication in the support of international understanding and/or the integration of Europe
Presented by	Schwarzkopf Foundation
Reward	Prize money of 5000€ [1]
First award	1997;28 years ago (1997)
Number of laureates	26 laureates as of 2021 [update]
Website	schwarzkopf-stiftung.de

The Young European of the Year title is awarded by the Schwarzkopf Foundation to people between the ages of 18 and 28 who have worked in an honorary capacity towards the understanding between peoples or European integration, and in the process have achieved exemplary success. ^[1]

Winners

Year	Country	Winner	ref.
1997	Czech Republic	David Stulik	[2]
1998	Germany	Michael Schmitt	[1]
1999	United Kingdom	Lola Almudevar	[3]
2000	Germany	Tobias Bütow	[1]
2001	Romania	Daciana Oana Mailatescu	[2]
2002	North Macedonia	Mjellma Mehmeti	[4]
2003	Ireland	Adrian Langan	[5]
2004	Azerbaijan	Anar Jahangirli	[6]
2005	Hungary	Tamás Boros	[1]
2006	Turkey	Burcu Becermen	[7]
2007	Netherlands	Paul de Kuijer	[8]
2008	Georgia	Tamuna Kekenadze	[2]
2009	Serbia	Sandra Orlovic	[9]
2010	Poland	Maria Tandeck	[10]
2011	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Stefan Ivanovic	[11]
2012	Germany	Robin May	[ citation needed ]
2013		Lukas David Meyer	[12]
2014	Spain	Luis Alvarado Martinez	[2]
2015	Ukraine	Evgenija Lopata	[13]
2016	Moldova	Adrian Balutel	[12]
2017	Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina	Nozizwe Dube Haris Kušmić	[14]
2018	United Kingdom	Madeleina Kay	[15] [16]
2019	Italy	Yasmine Ouirhrane	[17]
2020	Bulgaria	Maria Atanasova	[18]
2021	Romania	Constantin-Alexandru Manda	[19] [20]
2022	Austria	Anahita Neghabat	[21]
2023	Slovakia	Mikuláš Lakatoš	[22]
2024	Austria	Munira Mohamud	[23]
2025	Hungary	Magdolna Kremmer	[24]

Winners by country

Countries	Awards
Germany	4
Austria	2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Hungary	2
Romania	2
United Kingdom	2
Azerbaijan	1
Belgium	1
Bulgaria	1
Czech Republic	1
Georgia	1
Ireland	1
Italy	1
Moldova	1
Netherlands	1
North Macedonia	1
Poland	1
Serbia	1
Slovakia	1
Spain	1
Turkey	1
Ukraine	1

See also

• European Charlemagne Youth Prize

References

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