• 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.

 


Asger Trier PDF Print E-mail

Asger joined the Challenge Europe project because he believes it presents a unique opportunity to develop some of the future solutions to climate change. His main interests are clean-tech, energy efficiency and climate change related projects. At his day job, he works as an analyst for a foundation which is part of a consortium of hedge funds. Asger has a B.A. in Economics (cand.polit) from Copenhagen University, and finishes his M.Sc. in Economics in the fall 2009. Afterwards he hopes to get a job at a clean-tech company dedicated to entrepreneurial solutions to climate change and energy efficiency.
 
 
 
A fun approach is what the Finnish Climate Advocates felt their project needed to convince people to stop using all the old excuses for not cycling. They presented cycling as something cool and desirable through organising workshops and cycling brunches where the positive outcomes of cycling were stressed and excuses challenged.