2012 Utopia Award in the category future-oriented products
Laudator Leonhard Graf von Harrach, Head of the Tesla Germany (on the left), congratulated Hans Michlbauer of EG-Solar e.V. for the first place and appreciated the realization of a visionary idea. The Solar Cooker is a serious alternative to the use of fossil fuels in an activity that daily translates into billions of people: cooking. As such, the invention particularly relieves women and children in countries with a lack of fuel due to daily wood gathering and prevents harmful smoke when cooking.
2002 German Solar Award from Eurosolar
for network of self-help centers in developing countries
2001 Conservation and Environmental Grants, Ford Motor Company
1999 Social Award of the District of Altötting
for exceptional achievements in the field of development aid and youth work
1991 Tutzinger Foundation for Environmental Education
Award for unusual and courageous ways in environmental education