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The Project

Challenge Europe was a three year project aiming to accelerate change to a low carbon future. It was active in these 18 countries
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
EstoniaEstonia
France
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
LatviaLatvia
Lithuania
Nth. Ireland/Ireland
Norway
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Turkey
UkraineUkraine



Climate Advocates

600 young people aged 18-35 worked on climate challenges and local projects to reduce carbon use.

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Project Partners

Several hundred international and national experts and partners helped the Advocates to develop their ideas. You can find the list of partner organisations below.

 


The Best Eco Lab Artists awarded at a Ceremony
News - Advocate News
Friday, 09 October 2009 15:23

city_bike_winner_web.JPGAt the end of August the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Lithuania was full of busy artists - participants of the Vilnius workshop known as the Eco Laboratory. The final event had a number of selected items produced by the participants of the project on display. The winner of the first prize Giedrė Šakauskaitė created a pouf and a coffee table from the old washing machine cylinders. An elegant city bicycle - an ecological means of transportation – was a special prize of the British Embassy for the winner.

Director of British Council Lithuania Artūras Vasiliauskas noted addressing the ceremony participants, “I wish such initiatives – making new useful things using waste material - start spreading. This could lead to new trends and new mentality. It is useful to realize that the resources of our planet are fragile and not everlasting and never-ending.”

The event also provided a chance the participants not only to try some Lithuanian traditional ecological food but also to make a sculpture out of papier mache propared from shredded office documents.
The sculpture produced by the vice Mayor, the British Council Country Manager and the Ambassador will be on display at the Vilnius City Municipality along with several other items made by the Eco Lab participants.
 

 

 

 
 
 
The key concern of the Turkish Climate Advocates was to make people aware that climate change is also a local issue. They wanted to dispel the myth that the effects of global warming could only be found in the North Pole and sought to make people look more closely at their local environment and realise that it is also being affected.