• The Project
  • Climate Advocates
  • Project highlights
  • News Archive
  • Project Partners

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.

Project highlights

Want to see some advocates' ideas to help fight climate change?

 

News Archive

Read through the archive of news about the project activities between 2008 and 2011

 

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.

 


Jan Baláč PDF Print E-mail

Jan considers himself both entrepreneurial and thoughtful. He would like to be remembered as someone who engaged people by working together to solve the problems surrounding them. He is currently studing Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge and hopes that his experiences with the project and at university will complement each other.
 
 
 
‘Don’t shop, swap!‘ was the idea behind the initiative which encouraged people to swap their goods rather than throw them away, re-use old products instead of buying new ones and by doing that help decrease CO2 emissions from the productionof new items.