More DEAR Project Highlights

Learn about what EU DEAR projects are up to. Read about the first Lithuanian Climate Festival, the Maltese Environmental Film Festival, game apps to reduce your climate footprint, food contests and other activities and products. Find out more from DEAR projects FoodWave, GameOn and Climate Of Change.

GameOn

“GameOn!” created a Climate Game mobile app to measure and decrease people’s carbon footprint. Its ambition is to help players develop “carbon intuition”, to take quick everyday decisions that are environmentally friendly. Users log their consumption, for which they receive items or animals for their imaginary island. Good consumption leads to good scores. Users can set a yearly carbon goal. When they are in danger of overshooting their maximum limit, their island turns into an unhappy ecosystem. Watch the intro video.

“Game On!” also developed “Climate Compact”, an open online course about climate change, its social and economic impacts in Europe and the Global South and its links with ecosystem decline, as well as the role of communications for countering climate scepticism. In 12 lessons, “Climate Compact” introduces the basics of climate change and its interrelation with our livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, climate justice, pollution, economics and more. Watch the intro video

FoodWave

20 ideas by 34 young creatives from 11 countries made it through the first round of the Foo[d]tures contest. The jury was composed of IED - Istituto Europeo di Design professionals, ActionAid Italia and the Municipality of Milan. Discover their projects here. Next step? Online hackathon and bootcamps!

“FoodWave” also created a video to promote its activities and partners. It is a collection of sneak peeks of its events, activists and connections, highlighting the partnership between Food Wave’s partner City of Turin and several youth associations!

ClimateOfChange in Malta and Lithuania

ClimateOfChange’s Maltese partner, Friends of the Earth, organised a Climate Action Camp and contributed to the environmental film festival, Ċine’Ambjent. The Climate Action Camp offered workshops about activism and campaigning tactics around the intersection between migration and climate change. Speakers and facilitators included Maltese graffiti activists, an Italian climate activist and a cultural mediator, originally from Sudan.

ClimateOfChange screened four documentaries at the Maltese Ċine’Ambjent film festival. The selected films showed how climate activists and indigenous communities from the Global South are leading their fight against corporate exploitation of natural resources and protecting their water from diversion and contamination. ClimateOfChange also provided two speakers, who discussed poverty, climate-change and small states studies, as well as the effects of climate change and food security on health. Finally, the project hosted a “Cultural After Party” with food by the Migrant Women’s Association Malta.

ClimateOfChange´s Lithuanian partner ZIE (VšĮ “Žiedinė ekonomika”) organised many different events that connected groups with usually limited interactions, and also local climate justice initiatives with more global ones. They ran the first ever Lithuanian climate festival, with instrument workshops, culinary initiatives, musical performances and more. Speeches, discussions and workshops addressed animal agriculture and plant-based alternatives, the need to phase out fossil fuels and turn to sustainable energy independence and various other strategies for climate action.

Artistic activities in the Vilnius community gardens connected young people - who were drawn in by the artistic aspect, to older people - active in gardening and land cultivation, and together with a mixed age group of local residents. Events with labour unions established a common ground between climate and labour activism.

ClimateOfChange also supported climate activists to explore with Lithuanian legal and policy experts means of impacting climate policy of Lithuania. They met the head of the Lithuanian parliament and advocated for greater climate justice.

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