• 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.

 


Poland

Poland advocates 2009/2010



Sabina Michalska PDF Print E-mail

Photo and profile coming soon.

 
Maciej Marcinek PDF Print E-mail

image009.jpgHe is in his fifth year studying at the University of Science and Technology in Kraków, majoring in Environmental Engineering at the Department of Fossil Fuels and Energy of the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection. Renewable energy sources (RES) are his specialty and his passion. He also works on a voluntary basis for a non-profit organization PN Energie Cites, which support RES and energy efficiency initiatives. He believes that one of the ways to reduce emission of toxic substances causing global warming and other harmful phenomena is to disseminate RES technologies. It is also vital to ensure that such renewable energy sources are used reasonably. In his opinion, Challenge Europe gives young people an opportunity to make good use of their potential in order to prevent climate change.

 
Agata Nagrabska PDF Print E-mail

image004.jpgDue to her university degree, Agata has been interested in environmental protection, particularly in climate change for a couple of years. As a trainer she participated in the first edition of ZeroCarbonCity project conducted by the British Council. Then, on behalf of the British Council, she coordinated the second edition of the workshop. She was also a project coordinator of Climate Exchange addressed to a group of experts dealing with climate change. Besides, Agata was a member of the Polish team working for CarbonGame - Emission Trade project (www.carbongame.org). As a result of the project implementation, an Internet education tool was created concerning the trade of CO2 emission authorisations. Agata Nagrabska has graduated from the Inter-Departmental Environment Protection Studies at Warsaw University. She would like Challenge Europe's Climate Advocates to make Polish people change their way of thinking about climate change. She thinks one should stop perceiving climate change as a purely environmental/ecological problem and start thinking about it as a factor which will have a direct impact on people's lives and economy.

 
Michal Brennek PDF Print E-mail

image002.jpgHe is a candidate for a doctor's degree at the Geography and Regional Studies Department of Warsaw University where he carries out integrated research into the natural environment and the relationship between the man and the environment in particular. So far he has co-operated with a number of NGOs, including the British Council, on climate change related projects. Michał thinks climate change is one of the most significant challenges that face humankind. Unfortunately, the problem is complex which is the reason why there are a lot of personal opinions and emotions and few concrete facts and real actions. His credo is: Firstly, you can change the world! Secondly, it requires a lot of effort. A change can be made through co-operation only, so the more contacts you have with people and institutions not related with the project the better it is for the project.

 

 


 
 
Lessening the impact of food production on the environment, convenience and good cooking were at the forefront of the Swedish Climate Advocates’ minds when they devised a new online service, Majas matverkstad to help people cook sustainably every day.