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 Estonia
France Great Britain Greece Hungary
Latvia Lithuania Nth. Ireland/Ireland Norway
Poland Slovakia Slovenia Sweden
Turkey Ukraine
Climate Advocates
600 young people aged 18-35 worked on climate challenges and local projects to reduce carbon use.
Project highlights
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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.
Sustainable agriculture and local food production from ideas to action
A Challenge Europe international networking event in Sweden. Just before the COP15 conference 20 Challenge Europe climate advocates gathered in Stockholm to develop their project, share ideas and network. The focus of the event was on the impacts of food and agriculture on the climate and how that can be countered through the advocates initiatives. During three days the advocates meet up with UK and Swedish experts in this field such as Jacob Lundberg from the UNs Food and Agriculture organization and Rosie Boycott, chair of London Food. Besides dealing with the theoretical parts of the subject got to meet the Swedish TV chiefs Rune Kalf-Hansen and Carola Magnusson to sample their sample their eco cooking and discuss seasonal and sustainable cooking. Watch this video report to get an insight to what expired during the event.
A fun approach is what the Finnish Climate Advocates felt their project needed to convince people to stop using all the old excuses for not cycling. They presented cycling as something cool and desirable through organising workshops and cycling brunches where the positive outcomes of cycling were stressed and excuses challenged.
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
Estonia
France
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Nth. Ireland/Ireland
Norway
Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
A fun approach is what the Finnish Climate Advocates felt their project needed to convince people to stop using all the old excuses for not cycling. They presented cycling as something cool and desirable through organising workshops and cycling brunches where the positive outcomes of cycling were stressed and excuses challenged. 