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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.

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.

 


Launch of the New Year 2009-2010 with climate advocates in Hungary PDF Print E-mail

New_Image.JPGThe advocates’ team in Hungary met in Szentendre – the picturesque little town at River Danube.

On the first day participants evaluated their work so far, outlined the positive and negative experiences and gave each other feedback on individual performance. Later that day there were some funny team building exercises to get to know each other and to test overall team spirit and sense of humour.Second day was dedicated to the hardcore professional work. The team started defining projects and by the end of the day they could split themselves into working groups.

The advocates plan to keep on meeting at least once a week, sometimes even more frequently at the British Council. Apart from the climate related challenges, they discuss a relevant professional topic to build their knowledge and skills.
 
 
 
 
While housing is a big contributor to GHG-emissions, energy certificates or carbon footprints of apartments and houses are usually not easily obtainable. The purpose of the project was to help people who are buying a house or an apartment to assess their carbon footprint by developing a carbon calculator concept for property search engines.