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Eight artistic views on climate change
The opening of the exhibition called ‘Copenhagen 2009: a Chance for the Climate’ will take place on 24 November in Café Therapy in Prague. Eight Czech caricaturists will present their views about climate change that will make you smile, think or reflect on our everyday life. The exhibition is organised in cooperation with the United Nations Information Centre in Prague and the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic. You can see the exhibition until the end of 2009.
The Climate Advocates are working on three topics:
Inspirational Beer mats with climate friendly messages will be produced in cooperation with one of the breweries.
LILEK- Local ecological and economical cuisine: organising a fair at a local market in Brno with educational activities and games for families with children and creating a publication that will bring attention to local food production.
Wooden buildings: promoting in the Czech Republic the idea of green buildings made from wood and the public’s awareness of the benefits of these types of buildings by offering educational opportunities through a seminar and an excursion to see wooden buildings in use.
The topics were presented to the public, experts, media and potential partners on Thursday, 22 October 2009, at the Representation of the European Commission in Czech Republic in Prague.
To find out more, have a look at the project's web or contact Alena Capova, the project's co-ordinator.
The Czech Republic climate advocate team:
Anna Cajchanová, 25, lawyer, Department for Compatibility with EC Law, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
Barbora Pešková, 26, trainer and project manager, NGO TEREZA Association
Barbora Staniková, 28, Risk Analyst, Citibank Czech Republic
Jáchym Hercher, 20, student, Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague; volunteer work for NGO People in Need
Jan Baláč, 26, Environmental Agenda department, Czech power utility ČEZ
Julie Hodková, 26, PhD student, Faculty of Civic Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT)
Kateřina Kolská, 23, student, Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, The University of Economics (VŠE); junior specialist in environmental economics, CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency
Kateřina Sojková, 28, PhD student, Faculty of Civic Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT)
Katerina Sparlinková, 28, engineer; currently working as a language teacher and translator
Klára Kavanová, 27, PhD student, Human Geography, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
Magda Šimonová, 27, Client Financial Management Analyst, Accenture
Ondřej Pavlík, 20, student, International studies, Faculty of International Relations, The University of Economics in Prague (VŠE)
Pavel Peřina, 35, furniture designer (www.perina.net)
Tomáš Miléř, 33, primary school teacher of physics; PhD student, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc
Veronika Fišerová, 22, student of sociology and environmental studies on Faculty of Social Science, Masaryk University Brno; eco-counsellor, NGO Veronica
Zdeňka Herová, 20, high school student; volunteer work for NGO INEX-SDA
In 2008 the British Council launched Challenge Europe – the European element of its global climate programme, Low Carbon Future. The Challenge is a three year campaign that aspires to make a definite and lasting impact on the climate change debate, and is ambitious in its aim to accelerate change to a Low Carbon Future.
The project takes place in 15 countries across Europe: the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) Hungary, Ireland (the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine.
In each of fifteen countries 15–20 young influencers, aged 18–35, will work together as ‘Climate Advocates’ to unearth new ways to reduce carbon use or utilise methods already found but not yet properly exploited. Each group offers a broad representation of skills, attitudes and ideas from all walks of life, working across disciplines to seek, gather, develop and then refine scores of ideas to agree just three concrete concepts. These concepts, they believe, will have real potential to bring about a Low Carbon Future through changes to law, business practice or public behaviour. The outcome will be a network of about two hundred bold and young influencers working together to develop forty two tangible ideas.
The groups will pitch these ideas to broader publics, including eminent experts, philanthropists, commercial organisations and entrepreneurs across a range of fields in an effort to turn the ideas into reality.
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The patron of the Challenge Europe project in the Czech Republic will be prof. RNDr. Bedřich Moldan, CSc. |
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Our partners in the Czech Republic are British Embassy in Prague, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, RWE Transgas, a.s., Transport and Energy Centre, Faculty of Environmental Science of the Czech University of Life in Prague, Respekt Institut, o.p.s., United Nations Information Centre Prague and Energy Centre České Budějovice. |
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The project is supported by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic. |
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Contact: Alena Čápová, alena.capova@britishcouncil.cz |
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Click here for more information about the project. |
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