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Climate change is real, and something needs to be done to make a difference and accelerate change to a Low Carbon Future. The time to stop talking and start acting is now and the British Council is looking for bright young people who can make this happen.
If you are 18 to 35 and can make a significant time commitment for one year from June 2008, you might be just the person we are looking for.
If selected, you will be offered the chance to explore solutions to climate challenges together with other bold and bright people in Baltic States and Europe. You will participate in international visits and study tours to centres of excellence, interact with leaders across different sectors of society, share best practice across Europe, and promote novel ideas that will accelerate the change to a Low Carbon society.
To apply, please fill in the form and send it to danguole.kizniene@britishcouncil.lt by May 23, 2008.
In 2008 the British Council will launch the European element of its global climate programme; Challenge Europe. 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.
In each of 15 countries around 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. In the Baltic States, a joint group of 25 Climate Advocates will be assembled. 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 human behaviour. The outcome: a network of 200+ bold and young influencers working together to develop 42 concrete, 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 make the ideas become reality.
Challenge Europe aims to take strides towards addressing the most urgent global challenge we face today; climate change. It offers this generation the opportunity to focus valuable time and invaluable talents to find real answers to address the crisis.
Throughout the programme, the British Council will actively partner with a number of organisations across Europe spanning all sectors; including the corporate, non-governmental, environmental and academic worlds. Through these partnerships, the British Council will support these young Europeans on their quest, offering them access to some of the best minds in Europe through established networks of expert groups and individuals: climate change experts, policy makers, business people, entrepreneurs, environmental groups, and centres of excellence.
They will delve in to current knowledge, merge new thinking with old and formulate concepts that will fundamentally change the way we use carbon. Their ideas could address how individuals make a real difference, how businesses put low carbon initiatives in to practice – absolutely anything that will accelerate change to a Low Carbon Future.
The philosophy of the campaign is simple: to create momentum through collaboration, innovation, energy, drive, passion, understanding and knowledge-sharing.
In 2008, Challenge Europe will be taking place in 15 countries across Europe: Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, UK, Ukraine.
For more detailed information about the project please contact Danguole Kizniene:danguole.kizniene@britishcouncil.lt; T 852644890
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