🇦🇹Austria

Since Austria's first national park here gave way to a UNESCO biosphere reserve, the Carinthian Nockberge have shown that centuries-old alpine farming and rare grassland biodiversity can thrive side by side.

Amazone runs Vorarlberg's dedicated girls' center and free counseling line for girls, young women and gender-diverse youth aged 10 to 25, at a time when demand for support keeps climbing.

neunerhaus gives Vienna's homeless a home first, then the healthcare, jobs training and vet care for their pets that make staying housed possible.

Started by the Vienna Concert Hall, the Vienna Boys' Choir and Caritas Vienna in 2009, Superar gives children who couldn't otherwise afford it free, intensive orchestra and choir training.

In Linz's Haus der Menschenrechte, SOS-Menschenrechte houses unaccompanied refugee minors and asylum seekers while running Stand Up! workshops that take human-rights education into Austrian classrooms.

Since 1995, Hemayat has offered free interpreter-supported psychotherapy in Vienna to survivors of torture and war, one of the few services of its kind in Austria.

Sindbad pairs socioeconomically disadvantaged Austrian teenagers with trained young-adult mentors for up to a year to help them cross the finish line into an apprenticeship or further schooling.

Since the 1997 European Year Against Racism, fairplay has used football pitches across Austria as classrooms for fighting racism, sexism and discrimination in sport.