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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.

 


Midsummer in Somerset PDF Print E-mail

Thirty-one Climate Advocates, from ten different countries, gathered in the idyllic setting of Ammerdown Centre in Somerset last week to further develop their project proposals to reduce carbon use. The three-day event, organised in collaboration with LEAD International was filled to bursting point with activities set around team building, learning and leadership, how to cascade training and finally How to Change the World! 

On Friday evening they started off by creating a Vision and Values Statement for the whole group while simultaneously learning the snowball technique. Saturday and Sunday sessions focused on turning ideas into proposals; developing successful partnerships; learning about Open Space Technology and Social Networking; organising a successful party; reflecting on learning; and practising skills acquired. 

Daniel Rees (28), a Climate Advocate from Norway said: “The weekend in Ammerdown gave me a lot of interesting input on how to run workshops and project work. And meeting Climate Advocates from across Europe was fun and gave new inspiration that we can actually make a change.”

Since it was midsummer, participants also found the time to give a hilarious rendition of some of the more memorable scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream which was performed outdoors in the beautiful gardens.
 
Juliane Nier, trainer at LEAD International said: “I was amazed and inspired by this group of enthusiastic, creative and active change makers.” 
 
 
 
‘Don’t shop, swap!‘ was the idea behind the initiative which encouraged people to swap their goods rather than throw them away, re-use old products instead of buying new ones and by doing that help decrease CO2 emissions from the productionof new items.