Climate action hub: Empowering youth engagement project report

Laggan, Sophie; Davies, Lauren; Fogg-Rogers, Laura; Portus, Rosamund; Adkins, Deborah; Williams, Sara-Jayne

Abstract

This report summarises the knowledge exchange activities of the CAH-OOT project: Climate Action Hub - empOwering yOuth engagemenT. This project, funded by a joint faculty award from the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), enabled representatives from the Faculty of Business and Law and the Faculty of Environment and Technology to work with young people over a five-month period. Together, they co-developed a Climate Action toolkit and delivered training, coaching and skills development with and for 16-24-year-olds interested in making a difference in their place of education or in their community. In total, the project directly engaged 201 young people and 337 adults and indirectly engaged at least 5,000 young people. So far, the toolkit has been viewed over 400 times and has been picked up by other youth empowerment organisations, including the Sustainability Committee at UWE-Bristol that plan on using the resource in their own work.

Citation

Laggan, S., Davies, L., Fogg-Rogers, L., Portus, R., Adkins, D., & Williams, S. Climate action hub: Empowering youth engagement project report. UKRI HEIF

• Report Type: Project Report
• Deposit Date: Aug 9, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 10, 2022
• Keywords: Youth engagement; climate communication; empowerment; social entrepreneurship
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9851765
• Related Public URLs: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/centres-and-groups/scu/projects/climate-action-hub