Awards & prizes

A Flagship project in the field of "School and Business" The private cheese dairy WOERLE from Salzburg initiated this project. Since 2019, the company has been involving students from the HBLA Ursprung (a vocational school) in research projects through its own sustainability academy. The goal is to raise awareness among young people about resource-efficient living and working practices at an early age. For this, the traditional company was awarded the [award name missing] in 2024. Regionality Prize Salzburg in the category "Education and Research" .

The award is presented annually in five categories. Its aim is to recognize companies that impress with particularly sustainable projects and activities. On June 1, 2023, we were honored to attend the award ceremony. Green Marketing Awards happy about the 1st place in the category "B-2-BE"! With our sustainability project "Regional CO₂-reduced“ we were able to convince the jury of our efforts to promote balance in the region.

As part of this project, we have been paying our milk suppliers a bonus of up to €50 per ton of CO₂ saved for several years. The response has been tremendous, and we feel vindicated in our belief that this is the right path for us.

In June 2022 the TRIGOS Award awarded, Austria's most renowned award for responsible and sustainable management. As one of six companies, we were selected for our project "Biodiversity in Farmers' Hands" .

With this project, we are committed to promoting biodiversity, especially in agriculture. In cooperation with the dairy farmers in the region, habitats and retreats for a wide variety of animals and plants are created. The knowledge gained from this about the preservation of biodiversity is scientifically documented and recorded on a self-developed digital map.

On June 29.06.2022, XNUMX, the award ceremony took place SFAO certificates in Klagenfurt. That Energy Forum Carinthia certifies selected companies under the aspects of sustainability. We were awarded for our CO₂ saving project "Regional CO₂-reduced" in cooperation with our dairy farmers and were able to take home a certificate for our sustainable entrepreneurship.

At WOERLE we set 2021 as part of the long-term sustainability strategy the next step and put the focus on the Reduction of CO₂ emissions in the region. With a CO₂ account for more climate protection, agriculture was actively involved - we reward our dairy farmers for every tonne of CO₂ saved. This commitment was Salzburg Regionality Award 2021 rewarded.

For our lighthouse project "Regional CO₂ reduced", one of the three pillars of our long-term sustainability strategy, we were awarded the Salzburg Energy Globe Award at regional level in October 2021 and at the same time were nominated nationally for the Energy Globe Award Austria. In addition to measures at the company location, agriculture is also actively involved in matters of environmental protection.