• 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.

 


So what makes a successful Challenge Europe project? PDF Print E-mail

Have a look at four case studies of Climate Advocates’ projects from the first year. Factors that contributed to their success included relevance (addressing national priorities), sustainability, building reputation and innovative approach. Find out about how a carbon neutral information centre was created in Hungary or how successful a web project ‘Make a Plan!’ from Finland was. A food growing initiative is an interesting result of Advocates’ work from Ireland and Northern Ireland and Czech Advocates will show you how to organise an eco-fashion show. Read more...
 
 
 
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.