INFORSE – Climate Carrier

INFORSE – Climate Carrier

Projektledere: Mathias Switzer Ivona Prar

Keywords: climate action, youth, Green Deal, sustainability, activism

Description:
Climate carrier is a part of the INFORSE project which focuses on the EU’s role and its influence on multiple topics including climate action, circular economy, citizen involvement, climate awareness, etc. This is done through different activities, one of which is Climate Carrier.
Climate Carrier contributes to the INFORSE by gathering youth from all over the EU to discuss the role of the EU in supporting sustainable solutions and tackling climate change. Young people in Europe show high interest in this topic through activism and demand for climate action.
The project will gather multiple groups of young people from all over Europe in online meetings where they can have a dialogue and discussion on the topics of sustainability and climate action. It will explore their experiences, hopes for the future, the EU’s role, and their own, personal role and contribution.

Climate discussions:
A set of online and in-person meetings brought valuable discussions on the topic of climate change. Young people from all over the EU and the United Kingdom joined and shared their experiences of climate change in Europe, discussed the EU’s work on it, shared how they would approach this issue, and learned a bit more about the EU’s work on tackling climate change. Some also shared their climate confessions with the intention to change those habits in the future. Each one of the participants enriched the project with their own valuable opinions and viewpoints. For the final part of the project we created a full day event in Aarhus, with two workshops leading up, where we brought together more than 200 people.

Our main event, the Community Climate Day was a full day open house of learning, sharing, and action. Participants engaged in diverse workshops like plant croquis, exploring biodiversity, a unique waste sorting escape room, a big conversations cafe and a ‘shine your bike’ workshop, everything culminated with live music and a community dinner. For this ending part, we were very privileged to have a group of 6 Kaospilot students to take on the ending part of the Climate Carrier project as their first semester project. They helped us plan and execute the final part of the project, they got the word out, set everything up for the final event, and even helped us reflect on everything afterward. Their energy and drive really pushed the project to new heights.

Further steps:
After closing down all planned events, we are working on giving a project an afterlife. Our hope is to take the gained knowledge from the meetings and use it to create materials that will help raise awareness and educate people, especially young people, on climate change and how they can get involved in making a change. The materials will consist of a video, an infographic, an educational blog post, and a book of confessions where others can add their own climate confession and set an intention to do better in the future.

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