REAL School Budapest has been named one of the world's best schools for environmental action — the first school in Hungary ever to be shortlisted for this prize, chosen from thousands of applicants worldwide. Recognised for embedding regeneration into every aspect of school life, with students actively restoring local ecosystems through project-based learning. Voting is now open for the Community Choice Award.

Earth Dragons aged 7–9 at REAL School Budapest spent Term 2 exploring diversity and inclusion through encounters with blind, deaf, and low vision communities, visits across Budapest, and three ensemble plays they wrote and performed themselves — closing with a performance of "Imagine" in voice and sign language.

Air Dragons aged 6–8 at REAL School Budapest spent Term 2 exploring how ancient and Indigenous cultures lived in harmony with nature, making sourdough, fermenting food, and running five hands-on stations at a community makers' market as part of their project-based learning programme.

REAL School Budapest ages 5–7 students preserved food, made sandwiches for people experiencing homelessness, and built hedgehog highway posters as part of a project-based learning unit on caring for people and nature in winter.