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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.

 


Work and fun, Slovenia style PDF Print E-mail

 
This year's Slovenian generation of climate advocates held their first meeting in the beginning of July in the idyllic setting of   Rakov Škocjan. Through presentations, workshops and fun we established grounds for our future work on tackling climate change.

Since some of us have attended international meetings, first part of our gathering was devoted to presenting those newly adopted ideas worth spreading. Afterwards we mostly brainstormed to determine fields which demand most of our attention when it comes to CO2 emissions. We realised it was waste, transport, agriculture, industry and energy that we should target, and we (still somewhat loosely) formed working groups for each of the starting points.

Cooperation was made possible – and funnier! - through various social activities ensuing more than just dialogues and comical situations. It was through these social interactions that we got to know each other better, in a different light perhaps, and definitely re-realised we are at a right place at a right time.
 
Overall, it was a workshop paired with entertainment that resulted in gaining more understanding of our common aim to tackle climate change and generating deeper friendships among participants.
Iva Gruden, Slovenian Climate advocate
 
 
 
The Czech Climate Advocates wanted to help people realise that clothing is a sector where large volumes of CO2 emissions are produced and to introduce the idea of eco-fashion.