• 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.

 


Mert Çetinkaya

CETINKAYA.jpgStudent of Koç University (İstanbul). He is going to graduate with a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2010. In the past three years, Mert was organizing events and festivals in İstanbul. After his trip to Vancouver, BC, he decided to change his motivation from organizing events to more serious issues such as Climate Change and Sustainable Development, where he can also use his social skills. In the university, he is the vice president of Social Activities Club and the board member of Ecology and Environment Society. He is currently doing his internship in the Department of Sustainable Development and Climate Change, in T.R. Prime Ministry - State Planning Organitiozan. He is planning to have an academic degree in Sustainable Development and work for an international NGO. Besides saving the planet, Mert enjoys practicing yoga and pilates, playing drums, scuba diving, reading and cinema. He would like to contribute to the project both with his social skills and technical knowledge.

 
 
 
The Climate Advocates in Ireland and Northern Ireland have been working on food issues, from an awareness campaign about food growing, to creating a network of community gardens groups and encouraging communities to take collective action on climate change.