Month: September 2023

GaGEN Partners Meet in Poland for Transnational Co-creation

In September 2023, GaGEN partners gathered in Warsaw, Poland, for a transnational co-creation meeting — an important step in shaping the future GaGEN digital game. Building on the ideas collected during some of the national co-creation sessions with children and older adults, partners worked together to refine the methodological framework that will guide the game’s design.

This meeting created space for in-depth discussions on how to adapt content to different levels of digital skills and environmental knowledge, ensuring the game is accessible and engaging for all generations. Partners also used the opportunity to review the overall progress of the project, exchange insights on management, dissemination, and especially the upcoming development of the game under WP3.

The event in Warsaw strengthened collaboration across the partnership and laid the foundation for creating a meaningful, user-informed digital tool to promote environmental awareness through intergenerational learning.

Climate change poses significant risks to children’s health and well-being

Approximately 1 billion children (nearly half of the world’s children) live in extremely high-risk countries.

Climate change is a direct threat to children’s well-being. In many countries, rising sea levels and temperatures are already putting stress on the ecosystem – affecting where people can safely live and grow food. And while children are the least responsible for the changing environment, they are likely to bear the greatest burden now and in future.

IPCC reports show that if levels of greenhouse gases continue to rise, global temperatures will also increase leading to more extreme weather events in many parts of the world. 

The UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Index showed that we are crossing key boundaries in the Earth’s natural system, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and increasing levels of pollution in the air, soil, water and oceans. As a result, the climate crisis is creating a child’s rights crisis. It is creating a water crisis, a health crisis, an education crisis, a protection crisis and a participation crisis.