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Generation Earth goes Climate strike: Interview with Fridays for future Vienna
For the first time, there will be a global climate strike happening on March 15 2019! Here hundreds of thousands of young people are expected in 270 cities worldwide – also in Vienna. Join the worldwide climate strike!
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Pioneers of change: Be part of the online summit 2019
We are excited to announce that Generation Earth is part of this year’s Pioneers of Change online summit. Over 30 experts, role models and visionaries will share their stories, ideas and thoughts about system change, activism and much more. Register now!
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Ideenschmiede 2019: Our projects
Here they are! We are excited to share with you our 16 project ideas, which we gathered at this years Ideenschmiede! If you are interested in joining a group, go ahead and fill out the form.
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Ideenschmiede 2019: Get active for Mutter Erde!
Creating new project ideas in order to tackle the burning social and environmental issues of the plastic crisis, “Wegwerfgesellschaft” (throw away society) and climate change was the main focus at this year’s Ideenschmiede. We are looking for motivated people, who want to get active with us OR start their own projects.
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“Umgedacht” – Wrapped in Plastic
Plastic is everywhere! Three awesome poeple tell us more about their important work on the reduction of plastic.
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“Umgedacht” – Art activism and rivers
How can art be used to drive change? What are the possibilities and what is the real impact? Neni, Franzi and Magdalena were on the trail of this question.
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“Umgedacht” – Critical questions about the ecological footprint
Can we save the world by saving plastic bags? What really drives us to ruin? And how do we get out of this mess? Wolfgang Pekny and Julie Stöllinger discuss these and many other exciting questions.
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“Umgedacht” – Experience wilderness! Back to real nature
This show is all about wilderness. We are talking to wilderness expert Bernd Pfleger. He survived a month in the wilderness only with a knife.
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Workshop: Global Goal 13 – Climate Action
From February to June 2018, members of Generation Earth and Ecognize travelled to Viennese schools to raise awareness of the climate crisis among young people and motivate them to act against it.
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Sustainability in IBG Workcamps – Evaluation and Outlook
The international voluntary workcamps, which are organised by the German association Internationale Begegnung in Gemeinschaftsdiensten e.V. (IBG) focus on gathering and incorporating ideas and activities on the topic of sustainability.
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Ukrainian project: How does your footprint look like?
A team of Ukrainian volunteers joined the youth workers training “Crossing Paths – Driving Change” from Generation Earth in August 2018. There they started to develop their own youth training programme. They targeted young, active people in their country and offered them workshops about sustainable living and leadership.
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Action Leader Training 2018/19 – First Group – Part 1
A new Action Leader Training year has started! In the kick-off meeting the participants got to know each other and formed a strong, connected group. Moreover, they digged deeper into the topic of leaderhip and into this year’s topic: plastic!
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