• 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.

 


Eva Kotrus

Eva_Kotrus.jpgEva Kotrus is a holder of an M.B.A. degree in General Management and a Bachelor’s degree from English speaking Seattle-based City University of Seattle. For 8 years she had worked for IBM in different professional settings. Today she works as an independent HR consultant. She believes that in order to make a difference to the world, we need to be able to see the “big picture” of our own day-to-day activities. She likes to understand how her actions affect others, the environment and the future. Among many things she would like to see changed is a long-term government support for the use of alternative energy sources like solar panels, wind turbines for business and private use. She thinks that carbon use could be reduced by offering incentives on the purchase of hybrid cars today, and making progress in introducing electro cars in the near future. She would like to make a contribution to increasing awareness in Slovakia, both in private and public sectors.

 
 
 
‘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.