• 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.

 


Ágnes Vértesi PDF Print E-mail

Ágnes is currently doing her Msc. in Envrionmentally Studies at Eötvös Loránd University. She is working as well as a trainee at an energy agency and as a special editor for a news site. In her free time she plays football, sings for a choir and she loves to be with her family and friends. Born in Budapest, raised in a village with a population of about 260 people and now living in Budapest again, she sees the difference between these two determining lifestyles of mankind. But they have one thing in common, whether they live in a city or the country, that mankind has made huge and irreversible changes to our planet. One of them is climate change, and the most important role belongs to carbon-dioxide, which lead her straight to the low-carbon principle and the Challenge Europe programme. She is obsessed with the idea of 'never too late to learn or act' so she is trying to insipre everyone to change and start caring about our environment. Her motto (originally spoken by Jane Goodall) is: 'We have a choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world a better place.'

 
 
 
In 2009, five Challenge Europe participants came together to form the Low Carbon Entrepreneurs. The project aimed to help entrepreneurs build businesses which stimulate a green economy and the transition of Ireland to a low carbon society.