Projects 2025
For 2025 we’ve received 350+ applications, thereof more than 100 fitting our funding criteria. This year’s selection process was wild – but we have chosen 12 amazing projects & determined activists working hard to fight for their rivers. It shows once again a remarkable need for this kind of funding – and it motivates us…
Projects 2024
This year we’ve received 38 qualified applications from 23 countries on 5 continents. Reading about all these planned hydropower projects is devastating – but reading through the applications about amazing projects, determinded activists and the hard work some people put into the fight for their rivers makes everything a lot better! It shows once again…
Projects 2023
We are happy to announce the 2023 Free Rivers Fund Grantees: 13 projects from 13 different countries and 5 continents – all fighting to protect rivers! We gave 13 grants this year, twice as many as in 2022 and by far the most we have ever given in one year. The quality and quantity of…
Projects 2022
We are happy to announce the 2022 Free Rivers Fund Grantees! We had more than 30 applications this year from all over the world – it is so exciting for us to read through these and to get to know all of these projects and activists fighting for their rivers. We are happy to be…
The Free Rivers Fund Rivers Day at the Oetz Trophy
On Sunday, 10th October, following the OETZ TROPHY extreme kayak championships, the Free Rivers Fund will be hosting the Rivers Day at the Ötztaler Ache. We would like to use the opportunity with so many kayakers and whitewater enthusiasts from all over the world flocking to our homerun to get as many people as possible interested…
The Free Rivers Fund joins the OETZ TROPHY
The Ötztal in Tyrol, Austria is our backyard and so we are proud to play our part in the OETZ TROPHY Extreme Kayak World Championships in October 2021. With a kayak race, we pay respect to a river that provides us with the race course, and also to the athletes who give their best here….