Anthropolis has found an excellent school

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The Anthropolis association has finally found a school partner for the project!
After long discussions, we managed to find our school partner before the end of the school year. We contacted several potential schools and feared that we might run out of time. But finally all the gloom has been lifted: we are excited and enthusiastic about the 1.5 years ahead, in partnership with Europa2000 school in Zugló!

European institutions and climate change. How it works.

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The C4C Partnership published: ‘European institutions and climate change. How it works.”
The handbook is designed to give an overview of European institutions with a special focus on those dealing with climate change. It is aimed at teachers and students and contains information on how to organise a climate campaign by contacting the institutions themselves or climate activist groups.
It will soon be available in all project languages.

Internal workshop on the RANAS method

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The project partners met online on 4 July. LABC held an in-depth workshop on some of the training approaches and tools that are and will be proposed and used throughout the implementation period. In addition to reviewing the highlights of organising a COP Conference in the wake of the I-CAN Project experience, it explained to the partners the features and potential of the RANAS- Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities and Self-regulation approach, an established method for designing and evaluating behavioural change strategies.
The RANAS research will therefore be offered in the coming months in France, Hungary and Poland.

Ranas Model piloting phase

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During May 2023 the piloting phase of the Ranas Model was implemented at the ITIS Pininfarina in Moncalieri (Torino). The piloting phase was structured as follow:

  • the school and CIFA selected 16 students among secondary classes to become “champions”;
  • LABC trained those 16 students during 2 preliminary afternoon classes:
    – 1st meeting: presentation of the project, of the RANAS model, of the “Outcome star” used as strategy to foster behavioural changes.
    – 2nd meeting: based on the outcome star results, development of thequestionnaire.

LABC implemented interventions in 15 classes; each intervention lasted 2 hours per class and was run with two students champions in each intervention to present the project, implement the questionnaires on students smart-phones, facilitate debate and collect feedback from the classes
a 3rd meeting with students’ champions was then organized to share feedback on results of the evaluation of the questionnaires as basis for the forthcoming action plan to be implemented in the next phases of the project

Globally, over 320 students were involved in the development of the piloting phase.

9 June online meeting

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The coordination meeting on 9 June was very rich and full.
We shared some updates on things done so far (Ranas activities in Italy, agreements with schools in other countries, CPP, etc.) and resumed the timetable of activities that are envisaged in the project.
In addition, we started to draw up a communication plan and made a short TOT on some technical tools we will be using.
During the meeting we also attended an interesting training on how to develop a local community engagement strategy with the support of Giacomo Pettitti of Roeto, a certified facilitator. In this first stage with him we started reflecting on how to create an effective group, on the #mapping of community actors and what are the issues at the centre of this type of involvement. Looking ahead to next year, we started to plan the next steps that will help us organise and facilitate a public event on environmental issues in June next year; although it still seems like a long time away, we definitely want to arrive ready!
Following this, we have planned our next events.

Meeting in Turin

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24th February 2023

Before the start of the project, the C4C project (Citizens 4 Climate) partners met in Turin to prepare the project activities.

The project is funded by the CERV Citizens, Equality, Rights & Values programme.

The project builds on the experience of the previous I-CAN Project by transferring the COP Conference model, developing the bottom-up approach (good old bottom-up …) and transferring it from schools to communities.
The activities include a series of interventions in secondary schools during which we will accompany classes to experience the practice of the Conference of the Parties, through a series of focus groups on the application of the Ranas model and the production of a practical manual on how to enter into ecological activism, to give back to the new generations practices to make change a climate change with a human perspective, stimulating critical thinking and actions marked by sustainability and responsibility.