• 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.

 


Challenge Europe at COP15: making the most of international networking PDF Print E-mail

During the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen our Climate Advocates got an opportunity to meet with 38 International Carbon Masters students from Edinburgh University and to hear from Scottish government ministers and experts what Scotland is doing to combat climate change. COP15 also gave the Climate Advocates an opportunity to further discuss their projects with many climate change experts and it was also a great opportunity for spreading the word about the British Council’s work in the field of climate change. This video gives you a small glimpse on what happened during the Challenge Europe networking event:
 
 
 
How do you increase awareness of climate issues among teenagers? The Slovak Sciencewear competition aimed at secondary school students aged between 14 and 18, focusing on things that matter to them – fashion, music and having a voice.