• 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.

 


Heidi Smith PDF Print E-mail

Heidi_Smith_pic.jpgHeidi Smith is originally a California-girl who took many travels and ended up in Europe. She grew up on the beach in San Diego, obtained her Bachelor’s in Journalism at San Francisco State University and eventually her Master’s in Culture, Environment and Sustainability from the University of Oslo. Along the way she studied in Denmark and Holland and worked most recently as an international journalist for a press agency in Spain. Heidi has always had a hint of green in her vision and hopes to contribute to a more sustainable world. She enjoys travelling, dancing to crazy music, strange vintage dresses, Mexican food, riding bikes and swimming. In her next life, Heidi hopes to return as a mermaid…in an impeccably clean ocean!

 
 
 
The key concern of the Turkish Climate Advocates was to make people aware that climate change is also a local issue. They wanted to dispel the myth that the effects of global warming could only be found in the North Pole and sought to make people look more closely at their local environment and realise that it is also being affected.