Age: 23
Party: Die Grünen

Lena Schilling is a 23-year-old climate activist from Austria, where she will top the list for the Green Party. Lena represents the first wave of climate strikers to try and enter the European Parliament.

Age: 32
Party: Europa Verde

Benedetta, the Co-Spokesperson of FYEG and the co-founder of Giovanni Europeisti Verdi (the Italian Young Greens), comes from the south of Italy. Scuderi is committed to bring the youth perspective, as well as the Southern European struggles to the EP and she is eager to fight for a sustainable, feminist, and inclusive Europe.

Age: 30
Party: Groen

Ariane, a Dutch woman with Rwandan roots, fights against the climate crisis and advocates for bold and ambitious climate policies. Ariane wants a climate-neutral, just, sustainable society in which everyone feels at home. For a society that shows solidarity with future generations.

Age: 32
Party: Zelení

From Ústí nad Labem, in the Czech Republic, Zuzana is in politics to represent “common people just like her”. She has been fighting for fair and just asylum policies and is committed to making sustainable options easy and accessible for all. In the European Parliament, she hopes to make a difference in protecting Human Rights and freedoms.

Age: 27
Party: Miljöpartiet de gröna

Wanja Kaufmann is 27 years old, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and is currently leading the Swedish Green Forum foundation which focuses on strengthening democracy and Green Party development in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Sub-saharan Africa. She runs for the European Parliament because she sees a need for more candidates who stand up for the ideals that the EU originally was built on — openness, cooperation and peace.

Age: 27
Party: GroenLinks

Born in the Azores archipelago in Portugal, Vieira has lived in the Netherlands since 2017 and has been a part of the GroenLinks delegation to the European Green Party since 2022.

Vieira has experienced first-hand the different realities amongst different communities within Europe and is eager to fight for a fairer and more sustainable Union. She is engaged in Human Rights protection and is committed to fighting for the right of her generation to a more protected environment and to a world free of discrimination.