• 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.

 


Year 2 Challenge Europe launch in Manchester PDF Print E-mail

On Friday 12th June and Saturday 13th June 2009, the British Council held its Launch Event for Year 2 of the Challenge Europe project at the British Council office in Manchester and the offices of the Manchester Environmental Resource Centre Initiative. By the end of the event, not only were the Advocates inspired and enthused by the project but as a team they had generated lots of ideas to take forward and consider as potential projects.

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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.