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Challenge Europe – Baltic Sea the focus for Climate Advocates
British Council Finland commits to refocusing one of its three major projects, Challenge Europe, to tackle problems directly related to the Baltic Sea. The Challenge Europe project is a three year project that aspires to make a definite and lasting impact on the climate change debate. In the project we select young people from all walks of life to become ‘Climate Advocates’. Over the period of one year the country team will work collaboratively to identify the key areas where they think they can make a real difference, with arts and culture as a cross-cutting theme. During the last project year the team in Finland will be asked to focus on issues that have an implication to the Baltic Sea and to develop three concrete ideas to improve the future of the Baltic Sea through changes in policy, business or human behaviour.
The groups will then pitch their ideas to broader publics, specifically reaching out to decision-makers and organisations, campaigning for implementation and support in an effort to make the ideas become reality.
The groups will then pitch their ideas to broader publics, specifically reaching out to decision-makers and organisations, campaigning for implementation and support in an effort to make the ideas become reality.
2010 January 19
Milestones
1st Milestone
2010 January 19
A group of 15 climate advocates will have been recruited, with special focus on people interested in the Baltic Sea Agenda and cultural relations
2010 March 31
2nd Milestone
2010 December 16
We organise local workshops for Climate Advocates with Finnish trainers and experts to develop the communication and influencing skills of the Advocates and to increase their knowledge about climate change and Baltic Sea.
2010 June 04
3rd Milestone
2010 December 16
We organise local workshops for Climate Advocates with Finnish trainers and experts to develop the communication and influencing skills of the Climate Advocates and increase their knowledge about climate change and the Baltic Sea.
2010 September 10
4th Milestone
2010 December 16
We organise local workshops for Climate Advocates with Finnish trainers and experts to develop the communication and influencing skills of the Climate Advocates and increase their knowledge about climate change and the Baltic Sea.
2010 June 04
5th Milestone
2010 December 21
We organise local workshops for Climate Advocates with Finnish trainers and experts to develop the communication and influencing skills of the Climate Advocates and increase their knowledge about climate change and the Baltic Sea.
2010 November 05
6th Milestone
2010 December 21
Stories from the Baltic Sea
http://www.britishcouncil.fi/projects/climate-challenge-baltic.htm
InterBaltic
http://www.britishcouncil.fi/projects/climate-challenge-interbaltic.htm
http://www.britishcouncil.fi/projects/climate-challenge-baltic.htm
InterBaltic
http://www.britishcouncil.fi/projects/climate-challenge-interbaltic.htm
2010 September 10
7th Milestone
2010 December 21
Finnish Climate Advocates took part in the Challenge Europe International workshops in Comrie (Scotland), Bath (England), Prague (Czech Republic) and Shanghai (China) during the summer and autumn 2010.
2010 October 22
8th Milestone
2010 December 21
Finnish Climate Advocate Maria Vuorelma represented the Challenge Europe project in COP16 negotiations in Cancun (Mexico) as part of the youth delegation which the British Council sent to COP16.
2010 November 29
9th Milestone
2010 December 21
Finnish Climate Advocate Jukka Parkkamäki (from the Stories from the Baltic Sea project team) is taking part in Climate Camp on Marine Ecosystems in Goa organised by the British Council India.
2011 January 13
Details
Marjo Somari
state agency or public body
Finland
Jari Ingerttilä
jari.ingerttilaREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT@britishcouncil.fi
+358 9 7743 3350
Jari Ingerttilä
jari.ingerttilaREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT@britishcouncil.fi
+358 9 7743 3350
British Council
Urho Kekkosen katu 2 C
00100 Helsinki
Finland
Urho Kekkosen katu 2 C
00100 Helsinki
Finland
other
advocacy
Awareness Raising
The philosophy of the Challenge Europe project is simple: to create momentum through collaboration, innovation, energy, drive, passion, understanding and knowledge-sharing. By building capacity of tomorrow’s influencers, we hope to achieve permanent impact on the Baltic Sea.
The Climate Advocates will need to be recruited using criteria that ensure that the Baltic Sea become the focus of the project. The Advocates will then be supported during the project year through capacity building, as well as financing for the implementation of the ideas they will develop.
Partners interested in the project are warmly invited to become involved in the recruitment of the Climate Advocates, in the capacity building programme as well as in supporting the development and implementation of the ideas by the Climate Advocates. We offer partners the possibility for sharing best practices from UK and on a European level, as well as access to a network of dynamic future influencers committed to furthering the climate change agenda.
Significant effort
10/02/2010
other
14 months