European Tree of the Year

The European Tree of the Year 2026 Award Ceremony took place on March 24th at 18:00 CET at the European Parliament in Brussels, Rue Wiertz 60, PAUL-HENRI SPAAK, Floor 1, YEHUDI MENUHIN amphitheatre.

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The Lithuanian Oak of Laukiai from the village of Rukai has won the 15th edition of the European Tree of the Year contest. The Old Wild Apple Tree from Slovakia took second place, while the Crooked Tree from Poland ranks third. The new Tree Points system brought overall 32,902 points, cast by more than 200,000 unique voters.

The European Tree of the Year contest originated in 2011. It was inspired by the popular Tree of the Year contest, which has been organised in the Czech Republic by the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation for many years. The European round is a finale consisting of the winners of the national rounds.

Every year in February, the online voting for the European Tree of the Year is organised by Environmental Partnership Association (EPA). The first European voting was organised in 2011. Since then the number of countries involved in the contest has risen from 5 to 16.