#concito

Concito - Get On The Floor

The 26th of March the Egyptian, Jordanian and Danish participants met up at Krogerup Højskole to take part in the DEMENA course. Outside the winter was starting to fade, the southern wind was bringing some warmth to the cold North and with it came a lot of expectations and hopes for the coming days.

The idea for the course was to support a constructive dialogue between the youth of Denmark and the MENA-region on the basis of our common challenge of climate change, building on last year’s similar course, in which young people were educated to become international climate ambassadors from the three countries.

In the beginning the participants were granted a solid knowledge on the problems concerning a sustainable development through lectures and debates.

The participants were enthusiastic and presented their biggest challenges in their respective countries. Throughout the course they evolved new, concrete and innovative ideas and projects of how to face these issues through active citizenship, network building and cooperation across borders. For example ideas were evolved on making a business of recycling and waste management in Cairo, or how to promote biking in Cairo and even starting educational programs on sustainable development in Amman.

In the end they were as international climate ambassadors equipped with campaign skills, innovating knowledge and a great youth online network on facebook and their own blogging webside: www.climateambassadors.net. This should enable them to initiate their ideas and projects in their home countries.