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Here’s some great news for the European youth climate movement. Together with 350.org, UKYCC and Nest, we’re creating a bunch of new international climate leaders. We’re gathering 40 young climate actors from across Europe in Berlin on August 28^th–29^th for trainings in global campaigning, social entrepreneurship and traditional and social media tactics. Nine of these leaders will be from Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) and Wake Up Call will hand-pick them. This is your opportunity to pick up the skills you need from successful professionals and current movement leaders. Going home you will be a 10/10/10 ambassador determined to make 350 Global Work Party on October 10^th as widespread as possible. Indicate and motivate your interest to sven@wakeupcall.se and maybe we’ll see you in Berlin in the end of August!

 Check the full invitation to the 
1^st Climate Action Workshop Europe

‘Wake Up Call’ attended the political week in Almedalen for the first time and we were blown away by the massive energy and engagement from the 70.000 participants. Beautiful Visby offered over 1000 seminars and mingles that catalyzed the efforts of everyone involved.
As social entrepreneurs we were very happy to see the concept of social entrepreneurship being embraced by everyone from politics to business to civil society as a great way of creating positive change. The idea of “Intrapreneurship” – to create change through entrepreneurial methods inside established organizations, was frequently used by many.

‘Wake Up Call’ is invited to Finland, and we want you to tag along. The event is called Globsol and is a playground for bright young people from Sweden and Finland interested in global issues and creating change. The weekend will be spent in Helsinki on October 15-17 where four parallel workshops will be held. The topics are 1)”Social Responsibility as Business Strategy” 2)”Fair Trade Conditions” 3)”Climate as a Trade Commodity” 4) “Food and Trade”. They are all designed to give the participants a better understanding of the respective issues while producing some measurable results. ‘Wake Up Call’ has been asked to lead workshops nr 1 (Sven) and 4 (Oleg), and this is your opportunity to join our groups. For €75 you will get everything covered: travel, food, accommodation and event. That is a very fair trade if you ask us. Log on to www.globsol.info and sign up!

Last week ‘Wake Up Call’ went to Älvdalen in Dalarna, Sweden, to inspire 200 youth at the local secondary school. We were given half a day so we could start off by helping the students to understand what is happening to our reality, why it is happening, and what young people around the world are doing about it. Then we trained them in small scale project management and let them start up local initiatives for 350’s Global Work Party on 10/10/10. Good ideas were in abundance as usual. Among them, plans for installing solar panels on the municipal swimming hall, arranging a bike race through the community and organizing an acoustic rock concert. We were especially excited about the engagement from the municipality. The local hero and head of Environment, Edita Platbardis, promised to support the implementation of the most promising ideas as well as report back to us about the outcome of 10/10/10. Awesome!

Anyone can contribute to BIG solutions, just take a look:

For the past four days over 1,700 social entrepreneurs, politicians and investors gathered in Leksand for the summit “Rework the World”. The even was organised by Tällberg Foundation and the network YES (Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability), and was the biggest gathering of this kind that ever happened in Sweden. The ambition and the vision were to create millions new sustainable jobs for the world’s youth. We (that is Oleg and Sven) were there too, accompanied by a team of our capable interns, Carl, Sophie and Josefine.
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