The first climate hub meeting was held in Ljubljana

The Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana organised the first hub meeting that took place on 17 May 2024 in the Museum's lecture hall. 

We invited researchers, museum professionals, educators, and representatives of non-governmental organizations and marginalized social groups who address climate change in their work or collaborate closely with target communities to share their expertize and experience. Participants of our "Climate hub" (in Slovene: Podnebno vozlišče) will have a consultative and co-creative role in designing training for educators and educational activities for adults.

An extremely interesting group of people with various background responded, with whom we thought about possible topics, activities and approaches to adult education on climate change. How do you communicate climate change when there is so much information available but at the same time, people feel powerless to deal with environmental crises? How can vulnerable communities, who are generally the most affected by climate change, be included in these debates and really have a voice? 

We will continue the discussion on these topics in June, when, based on the reflections of the target vulnerable groups on their needs, wishes, and challenges to educational activity implementation, we will discuss what knowledge educators require and what approaches we would like to develop and test. 

This project gives us a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with the vulnerable groups on educational activities that they will be able to carry out themselves. We are very much looking forward to creating activities together!

Text and photos: Tina Palaić

The first in-person project meeting at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin

Following several online sessions, the project partners finally met in person! Our gathering was held at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, where we were hosted by our partner museum, SPK - Ethnological Museum Berlin. 

We had an excellent opportunity to get to know each other better, particularly to exchange our experiences and practices in adult education and addressing climate change issues. We also discussed different approaches to including various individuals and communities in research and representation of their heritage.

In addition to very fruitful discussions regarding the project's goals and planned activities, we toured current exhibitions at the Ethnological Museum and addressed contemporary concerns of museum decolonization and collaboration with heritage holders. 

             

Photos: Constantin Holmer